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

“Just remove the duck” (2013)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/05/duck/

11 years ago

682 upvotes – 327 comments

Ember's Glimmer Engine

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/pull/10501

11 years ago

★ 22.5k TypeScript MIT
378 upvotes – 132 comments

Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser

https://paperspace.io

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 202 comments

Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015

http://blog.queze.net/post/2015/03/03/Mozilla-not-accepted-for-Google-Summer-of-Code-2015

11 years ago

352 upvotes – 138 comments

Flexbox in 5 minutes

http://flexboxin5.com/

11 years ago

340 upvotes – 80 comments

Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity

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

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 310 comments

Vulkan – Graphics and computing belong together

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 91 comments

Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237853/Unity_5_released_with_upgrades_fullfeatured_free_version.php

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 148 comments

Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?

http://www.e-siber.com/guvenlik/dropbox-accesses-all-the-files-in-your-pc-not-just-sync-folder-and-steals-everything/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 149 comments

The Freak Attack SSL/TLS Vulnerability

https://freakattack.com/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 116 comments

No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-reboot-patching-comes-to-linux-4-0/

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 47 comments

Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA for fun and profit')

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 41 comments

GitLab acquires Gitorious

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 87 comments

Technology predictions

http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-predictions

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 123 comments

Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard

http://patrick.georgi-clan.de/2015/02/17/intel-boot-guard/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

Swift: Madness of Generic Integer

http://blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2015/03/01/swift_madness_of_generic_integer

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 75 comments

Asm.js Speedups Everywhere

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/03/asm-speedups-everywhere/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Investigating fraud on Amazon

http://imgur.com/gallery/OmIsA

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

Ceres' Deepening Mysteries

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/marc-rayman/0225-dawn-journal-ceres-deepening-mysteries.html

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropbox Is Probably Not Stealing Your Files

https://one.darrenpmeyer.com/blog/dropbox-is-problably-not-stealing-all-your-files.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 99 comments

Huawei Watch

http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 151 comments

Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-03-03/performance-tuning-linux-instances-on-ec2.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

Tendermint – The completely decentralized consensus engine

http://tendermint.com/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 61 comments

The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world

https://mattwilcox.net/web-development/http2-for-front-end-web-developers

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

http://plyr.io/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Neurons Gone Wild

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 37 comments

Data-Crunching Indian Recipes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/03/a-scientific-explanation-of-what-makes-indian-food-so-delicious/?hpid=z4

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 90 comments

A Startup That Wants to Build Cities

http://buildcampus.com/vision/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

Dependencies and vendoring in Go

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/nMWoEAG55v8/iJGgur7W_SEJ

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 29 comments

Agbogbloshie, the world's largest e-waste dump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbogbloshie

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Understanding Variance, Co-Variance, and Correlation

http://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/21/variance-co-variance-and-correlation

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-russia-usa-snowden-idUSKBN0LZ1U020150303

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 139 comments

BodyKit – An API to the Human Body

http://www.bodylabs.com/bodykit.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

France wants companies to make appliances that last longer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-wants-companies-to-make-appliances-that-last-longer/2015/03/02/b39b326e-c0fa-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Major security flaw undermines Apple and Google users, researchers discover

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/03/03/freak-flaw-undermines-security-for-apple-and-google-users-researchers-discover/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses on Search

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/42floors-layoffs-brokerage/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Real Resume Examples from 1000s of Top Paid Professionals

https://www.visualcv.com/resume-samples?locale=en

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

The moon is not the Earth’s only natural satellite

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/03/02/earth-second-moon/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Starting off in Rust: Trying to write a shell

http://blog.achernya.com/2015/03/starting-off-in-rust-trying-to-write.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Sync 2.0: Skip the Cloud, Share Direct

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2015/03/03/sync-2-0-skip-the-cloud-share-direct/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once

http://jasmcole.com/2015/03/02/two-come-along-at-once/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Scientists Have Created Artificial Sunlight: Real Enough to Trick Your Brain

http://fossbytes.com/scientists-created-artificial-sunlight-real/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/02/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY2H520150302

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 67 comments

Emulating the Intel 8080 on a MOS 6502

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=824

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Ruby 2.2.1 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/03/03/ruby-2-2-1-released/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel and a Smartstrap System

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/pebble-time-steel-and-smartstraps/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/treadmill_performance_predicts_mortality?utm_content=bufferfe7a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

While other VCs seek Unicorns, Indie.vc is all about cashflow

http://pando.com/2015/02/17/while-other-vcs-seek-unicorns-indie-vc-is-all-about-that-cashflow/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

Why 40-Year Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/all/1

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

PuTTY 0.64 released, fixing a security hole

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

Hillary Clinton’s Use of Private Email at State Department Raises Flags

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Does Amazon Web Services Pricing Follow Moore's Law?

http://blog.atomicinc.com/2015/03/03/does-amazon-web-services-pricing-follow-moores-law-2350/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 53 comments

MUI – Lightweight Web/Email CSS Framework

https://www.muicss.com/?a=1

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: OpenSSL Cookbook 2nd Edition

https://www.feistyduck.com/books/openssl-cookbook/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

CamelCase vs. underscores: Scientific showdown

https://whathecode.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/camelcase-vs-underscores-scientific-showdown/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

The Book Thieves of London

http://thedabbler.co.uk/2015/03/the-book-theives-of-london/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Who Cares about GET vs. POST? NoREST

http://swaxblog.tumblr.com/post/112611863175/norest

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 99 comments

ForerunnerDB – Lightweight JavaScript Database with Persistence and Data-Binding

http://www.forerunnerdb.com

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/350-million-might-not-be-enough-to-save-las-vegas/386213/?single_page=true

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 53 comments

Computers are Brain Amplifiers

http://jacquesmattheij.com/computers-are-brain-amplifiers

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

Computing is too easy

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/computing-is-too-easy/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: An embitious Hacker News reader built with Ember.js

http://chancancode.github.io/hn-reader/about

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Yale CS students say the school has 'ceded the battle' to Harvard and Stanford

http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-computer-science-petition-2015-3

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Pentagon’s $55B mystery plane is secret, but debate on cost is appearing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/02/27/pentagons-55-billion-mystery-plane-is-secret-but-debate-over-cost-is-appearing/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 48 comments

Brazil releases 'good' mosquitoes to fight dengue fever

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29356232

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Io.js is one step closer to ARM64

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md#2015-03-02-version-143-rvagg

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
46 upvotes – 13 comments

Node.js module performance

http://litt.no/tech%20stuff/javascript_module_performance

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Javascript Has Become Steve Yegge's Next Big Language

http://lebo.io/2015/03/02/steve-yegges-next-big-language-revisited.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments
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