top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-27

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-bna

11 years ago

1584 upvotes – 165 comments

VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.0.html

11 years ago

394 upvotes – 167 comments

Hello, World

http://hello-world.io/hello-world/

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 165 comments

Make a Lisp

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

11 years ago

★ 10.6k Assembly
361 upvotes – 41 comments

“Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”

https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624

11 years ago

★ 60.8k JavaScript MIT
339 upvotes – 220 comments

Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/google-our-patron-saint-of-the-closed-web/

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 94 comments

Web typography for non-designers

http://www.presslabs.com/blog/web-typography-for-non-designers/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 50 comments

The Siberian crater phenomenon is more widespread than previously thought

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/26/the-siberian-crater-problem-is-more-widespread-and-scarier-than-anyone-thought/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 72 comments

Why blocks make Ruby methods slower

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/symbols/Proc/yield?#annotation=4087638&line=711&hn=1

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 48 comments

Nordstrom's robots.txt

http://shop.nordstrom.com/robots.txt

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

An alternative introduction to Rust

http://words.steveklabnik.com/a-new-introduction-to-rust

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 93 comments

Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning According to Hamming

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004020

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 11 comments

Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/fcc-votes-net-neutrality-big-win

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 86 comments

Soviet Space Image Catalog

http://mentallandscape.com/C_Catalog.htm

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 27 comments

Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/its-time-act-now-congress-poised-introduce-bill-fast-track-tpp-next-week

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 34 comments

Another new era of WordPress

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2015/02/27/new-era-wordpress-hhvm-rest-react/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 128 comments

Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]

http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Opinionated Dress Color Simulation

https://grack.com/demos/dress/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 147 comments

Five new undisclosed Xen vulnerabilities

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 46 comments

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 11: Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/02/26/kalzumeus-podcast-episode-11-bootstrapping-vs-raising-money

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Paperize – Beautiful Card Game Prototypes

http://oilandrope.com/paperize/beta

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 52 comments

IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen

http://www.irc.org/history_docs/jarkko.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 81 comments

LLVM 3.6 Release Notes

http://llvm.org/releases/3.6.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 11 comments

A Developer’s Guide to Growth Hacking

http://blog.fogcreek.com/a-developers-guide-to-growth-hacking-tech-talk/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 21 comments

Getting Superfish Out of Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/02/27/getting-superfish-out-of-firefox/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 43 comments

Karojisatsu – Leaving the DevOps Community

http://itrevolution.com/karojisatsu/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (2012)

http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=693

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 65 comments

Building Microservices the Lean Way, part 2

http://blog.hubblehq.com/building-microservices-the-lean-way-2/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Rethinking office space

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/rethinking-office-space.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 125 comments

Upcoming AWS Security Maintenance

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/maintenance-2015-03/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Canada's anti-terror bill is unnecessary and dangerous

http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-why-anti-terror-bill-is-unnecessary-and-dangerous-1.1774500

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Blink - Intent to deprecate: Insecure usage of powerful features

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/2LXKVWYkOus/gT-ZamfwAKsJ

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 95 comments

How I Accessed Employee Settings on Uber

https://medium.com/@nmock/accessing-employee-settings-on-uber-a3ecc5542315

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Paz – A Simple Docker PaaS Written in Node.js

https://github.com/yldio/paz

11 years ago

★ 7 Shell
90 upvotes – 14 comments

Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31669061

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

Clojure success stories

http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Stories

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150226144905.htm

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

Hedge fund robots crushed human rivals in 2014

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102306617

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Google is buying the entire '.app' domain for a Whopping $25M

http://www.dridgag.com/2015/02/google-is-buying-entire-app-domain-for.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

YesGraph (YC W15) Raises $1M to Build a Better Referral System for Mobile Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/yc-backed-yesgraph-raises-a-million-to-build-a-better-referral-system-for-mobile-apps/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/02/25/israeli-unicorn-ironsource-raises-105-million-ahead-of-ipo/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism

http://reesekyler.posthaven.com/attention-grabbing-headlines

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

Unorthodocs: Abandon Your DVCS and Return to Sanity

http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/can-i-make-my-brain-as-plastic-as-a-childs/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments

The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

A Faster Way to Try Many Drugs on Many Cancers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/health/fast-track-attacks-on-cancer-accelerate-hopes.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Linux Perf_events Off-CPU Time Flame Graph

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-02-26/linux-perf-off-cpu-flame-graph.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

A Decentralized Lie Detector

http://www.augur.net/blog/a-decentralized-lie-detector

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments
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