top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-03-06

Fired

http://zachholman.com/posts/fired/

11 years ago

1039 upvotes – 389 comments

GPS tracking device found on an activist's car

https://people.torproject.org/~ioerror/skunkworks/forensics/valencia-tracking-device/

11 years ago

610 upvotes – 149 comments

The Hiring Post

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

11 years ago

577 upvotes – 254 comments

Google Contributor

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

11 years ago

467 upvotes – 195 comments

The time has come to stand up for the GPL

http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-appeal.html

11 years ago

425 upvotes – 273 comments

Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Reservoir Sampling

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/stream_sampler/0.0.1/symbols/StreamSampler?#annotation=4094626&line=2

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 103 comments

Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install

http://forum.utorrent.com/topic/95041-warning-epicscale-riskware-silently-installed-with-latest-utorrent/

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 186 comments

Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 137 comments

The man who posted himself to Australia

http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31700049

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/visuel/2015/03/06/google-memorial-le-petit-musee-des-projets-google-abandonnes_4588392_4408996.html

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 152 comments

How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/how-air-traffic-controllers-sound-when-they-have-to-close-the-airport/386971/?single_page=true

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9157098

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 107 comments

Django REST framework 3.1 released

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.1-announcement/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158141

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 114 comments

ASCII fluid dynamics (2013) [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 20 comments

Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS

https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 76 comments

Career-Changing Programming Books

http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2014/02/05/top-10-career-changing-programming-books/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 48 comments

Astronomers Watch a Supernova and See Reruns

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/science/astronomers-observe-supernova-and-find-theyre-watching-reruns.html

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 6 comments

The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment [pdf]

http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/64/64.2/Rogers.Off.To.Website.pdf

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments
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