top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-02

Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free

11 years ago

1128 upvotes – 240 comments

Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-new-signal/

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 172 comments

An $89 remanufactured Ubuntu workstation

http://symplepc.com/blogs/news/16853255-symple-introduces-the-89-planet-friendly-ubuntu-linux-web-workstation

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the Fourier Transform

http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-confirms-plan-to-offer-wireless-service-1425308552

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 105 comments

Coding is not the new literacy

http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-new-literacy/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 147 comments

Neovim now has builtin terminal emulation via libvterm

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/2076

11 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script
195 upvotes – 48 comments

Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/hardwired-for-betrayal

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 26 comments

Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/03/firefox-developer-edition-38-64-bits-and-more/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 61 comments

Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/03/03/cross-compilation-just-got-a-whole-lot-better-in-go-1-5

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 36 comments

Wiki creator reinvents collaboration, again

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2880204/collaboration-software/wiki-creator-reinvents-collaboration-again.html

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 55 comments

Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One

https://medium.com/backchannel/marissa-mayer-has-completed-step-one-71dc31912855

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 94 comments

Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”

http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2015/02/24/stephen-king-everything-you-need-to-know-about-writing-successfully/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 34 comments

What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-its-like-to-need-hardly-any-sleep.html

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 119 comments

Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ynd2R3iXkpGE-XOAbX5szXv7RqIbxc_HDzvn-5tyc9A/viewform?usp=send_form

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 53 comments

Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/google-quietly-backs-away-from-encrypting-new-lollipop-devices-by-default/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 43 comments

Dropbox starts using POST, and why this is poor API design

http://evertpot.com/dropbox-post-api/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 48 comments

Berkshire Hathaway 2014 Annual Report [pdf]

http://berkshirehathaway.com/2014ar/2014ar.pdf

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 87 comments

No, it’s not the end of XMPP for Google Talk

http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-google-talk/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 62 comments

Limitations of the GET method in HTTP

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/03/limitations-of-the-get-method-in-http/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

SmileMiner – A Java library of state-of-art machine learning algorithms

http://github.com/haifengl/smile

11 years ago

★ 6.3k Java
118 upvotes – 25 comments

How a half-million dollar Kickstarter project can crash and burn

https://medium.com/@Haje/how-a-half-million-dollar-kickstarter-project-can-crash-and-burn-5482d7d33ee1

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 130 comments

IBash Notebook

http://jeroenjanssens.com/2015/02/19/ibash-notebook.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 8 comments

Our Director of Engineering on the new Wired.com

http://wired.com/2015/03/wired-dot-com-from-the-devs/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 108 comments

An Explanation of Type Inference for ML/Haskell

http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2015-02-28-type-inference.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

XKCD: Meeting

http://companyname.website

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Chip Makers Will Merge in Deal Worth $11.8B

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/business/chip-makers-will-merge-in-deal-worth-11-8-billion.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

CompCert: A formally verified optimizing C compiler

http://www.absint.com/compcert/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 62 comments

The F# Path to Relaxation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-D6W7EA8gw

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

The invisible network that keeps the world running

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Machine intelligence, part 2

http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: Lazy evaluation in Python

https://github.com/llllllllll/lazy_python

11 years ago

★ 268 C GPL-2.0
88 upvotes – 21 comments

Interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo

http://blog.fogcreek.com/dev-life-interview-with-salvatore-sanfilippo

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/28/uber_subpoenas_github_for_hacker_details/#1

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

Tinder to charge older users more for premium facilities

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31700036

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

Burn After Reading: William Powell and the Anarchist Cookbook

http://harpers.org/blog/2015/02/burn-after-reading/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine (1977)

http://amigan.1emu.net/kolsen/programming/sweet16.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Building Waze for the Boston subway: my first adventure in civic hacking

http://geoffreylitt.com/2015/02/28/mbta-ninja.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

The Other Mile-High Club

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-other-mile-high-club

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

Venture Capital in the 1980s

http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

SpaceX ABS/EUTELSAT-1 Launch Webcast [video]

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530102.600-google-wants-to-rank-websites-based-on-facts-not-links.html#.VPQ66bOsX1g

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Did GCHQ illegally spy on you?

https://privacyinternational.org/illegalspying

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

UK unveils plans for huge lagoon power plants stretching miles into the sea

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-unveils-huge-lagoon-power-plants-stretching-miles-into-the-sea-10079730.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export

http://asciiflow.com

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Large-Scale Machine Learning for Drug Discovery

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/03/large-scale-machine-learning-for-drug.html?m=0

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Vol 3: Deep Learning and Neural Networks

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffheaton/artificial-intelligence-for-humans-vol-3-deep-lear

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

AVG Announces Invisibility Glasses

http://now.avg.com/avg-reveals-invisibility-glasses-at-pepcom-barcelona/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

The Outsiders – Homelessness in San Francisco

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-outsiders

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 34 comments

Bradley Horowitz Is Now Running Google+

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/bradley-horowitz-is-now-running-google/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 50 comments

Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-cryptocurrencies-such-as-bitcoin-have-a-future-1425269375?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_tech

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 69 comments

Bill Gates is named world's richest person again

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31694951

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 52 comments

Are humans getting cleverer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31556802

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 56 comments

Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/productivityvision/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 44 comments

Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)

http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 10 comments

Private police carry guns and make arrests, and their ranks are swelling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/private-police-carry-guns-and-make-arrests-and-their-ranks-are-swelling/2015/02/28/29f6e02e-8f79-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 35 comments
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