top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-05

VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation

http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/

11 years ago

664 upvotes – 289 comments

Angular 2: Built on TypeScript

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/03/05/angular-2-0-built-on-typescript.aspx

11 years ago

426 upvotes – 225 comments

EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis

http://gamerant.com/sims-city-developer-maxis-shut-down/

11 years ago

424 upvotes – 197 comments

Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/books/7933/exclusive-extract-from-jon-ronson-book-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed/

11 years ago

424 upvotes – 506 comments

The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0134190440/

11 years ago

396 upvotes – 253 comments

David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (2001)

http://thad.frogley.info/archive/the_greatest_program.html

11 years ago

380 upvotes – 147 comments

Canadian Charged for Not Unlocking Smartphone at Canadian Border

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quebec-resident-alain-philippon-to-fight-charge-for-not-giving-up-phone-password-at-airport-1.2982236

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 213 comments

Google seems to have broken email forwarding

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/03/google-seems-to-have-broken-email-forwarding/

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 187 comments

My Y Combinator experience

http://marcobambini.com/my-y-combinator-experience/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 143 comments

Nativescript: Build truly native apps with JavaScript

https://www.nativescript.org/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 68 comments

Anonymous Login

https://developers.facebook.com/products/anonymous-login/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 95 comments

Stack Overflow: How we upgrade a live data center

http://blog.serverfault.com/2015/03/05/how-we-upgrade-a-live-data-center

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 68 comments

Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

http://davekiss.com/create-your-own-mailchimp-clone-for-5-a-month-with-sendy/

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 89 comments

Add a dirt-cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+

http://blog.reasonablycorrect.com/raw-dpi-raspberry-pi/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 65 comments

Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now, Renting to Bakers and Brewers

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/neighbors-got-together-buy-vacant-buildings-renting-bike-shop-brewer

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

Performance since PostgreSQL 7.4 with pgbench

http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/performance-since-postgresql-7-4-to-9-4-pgbench

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 32 comments

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 40 comments

Go HTTP2 demo

https://http2.golang.org/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Seneca on the proper use of time

http://reasonandmeaning.com/2015/03/04/seneca-on-the-proper-use-of-time/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 20 comments

If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

http://heeris.id.au/2014/if-programming-languages-were-harry-potter-characters/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

InstaParse: Context-Free Grammars as Easy as Regular Expressions

https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 2.8k Clojure EPL-1.0
126 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women

http://www.fastcompany.com/3043082/most-creative-people/why-software-maker-fog-creek-is-helping-its-competitors-hire-women

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 193 comments

New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31741564

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Cinder (YC W15) – Smart Countertop Grill

http://gizmodo.com/this-smart-countertop-grill-has-all-the-chef-skills-you-1689017439

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Death Is Optional: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman

http://edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 95 comments

Angular 2.0 Website

https://angular.io/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

The Man in the Van

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12420393/top-blue-jays-prospect-daniel-norris-lives-own-code

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 12 comments

Creative Genius Driven by Distraction

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/03/creative-genius-driven-by-distraction.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/clintons-email-server-vulnerable/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 64 comments

Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki

11 years ago

★ 320 JavaScript MIT
88 upvotes – 30 comments

EU Court Rules E-Books Are Services, Not Goods

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-court-rules-e-books-are-services-not-goods-1425552050

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 75 comments

TuneMyGC: Optimal MRI Ruby 2.1+ Garbage Collection

https://tunemygc.com/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Swiftype Raises $13M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/swiftype-series-b/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Mars: The Planet That Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1509/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Red Hat Introduces New Linux OS for Containers

http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=0110006KEE5M

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

MongoDB 3.0

http://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-3.0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

How Game of War makes more than $1M a day

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-game-of-war/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 58 comments

Jaw bone discovered in Ethiopia is oldest known human lineage remains

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/04/jaw-bone-discovery-in-ethiopia-is-oldest-ever-human-lineage-remains

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 7 comments

Templar: A proxy to improve HTTP API interactions

https://github.com/vektra/templar

11 years ago

★ 709 Go BSD-3-Clause
68 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9153521

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Why would I want to pay with my phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9150676

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 85 comments

The infernal semicolon (2012)

https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 72 comments

Digital Ocean Private Networking Is Not Private

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/digital-ocean-private-network.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 67 comments

Creating Maintainable UIs with React and Meteor

http://blog.percolatestudio.com/engineering/reactive-user-interfaces/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

A (Manic Depressive) Man’s Best Friend

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/a-manic-depressive-mans-best-friend

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments

ARM Cortex-A57 Software Optimisation Guide [pdf]

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015a/cortex_a57_software_optimisation_guide_external.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes

http://nautil.us/issue/22/slow/why-your-brain-hates-slowpokes

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

http://www.bitlean.com/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Standard freelance web development rates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9150989

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Sunglasses That Could Correct Color Blindness

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientist-accidentally-developed-sunglasses-that-could-correct-color-blindness-180954456/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Writing a code coverage tool

http://ismail.badawi.io/blog/2013/05/03/writing-a-code-coverage-tool/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments
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