top 50% 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

Hands-on with Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/hands-on-with-vivaldi-the-new-web-browser-for-power-users/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 105 comments

Audiogrep transcribes audio files and then creates “audio supercuts”

http://antiboredom.github.io/audiogrep/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

My Weird Ruby

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2015/03/03/my-weird-ruby.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: GitSavvy, Git integration in Sublime including per-line staging

https://github.com/divmain/GitSavvy

11 years ago

★ 1.9k Python MIT
126 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple to replace AT&T in Dow Jones on March 18

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/06/us-apple-dow-idUSKBN0M21H020150306

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook post written in Florida lands US man in United Arab Emirates jail

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/facebook-post-inked-in-florida-lands-us-man-in-united-arab-emirates-jail/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

Elsevier sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article

http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-me-a-creative-commons-non-commercial-licensed-article/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

Etsy's Founder, Written Out of History, Is Not Alone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/etsy-s-founder-written-out-of-history-is-not-alone

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Onyx: fault tolerant data processing for Clojure

https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/blob/0.5.x/README.md

11 years ago

★ 2k Clojure EPL-1.0
103 upvotes – 21 comments

Don’t waste time at conferences

http://righthello.com/2015/03/dont-waste-time-at-conferences/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

How I Snuck Through Wikipedia’s Notability Test

https://medium.com/p/how-i-snuck-through-wikipedia-s-notability-test-abfbd15127bc

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

TLS in HTTP/2

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/06/tls-in-http2/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130405/189984/How_I_Used_EVE_Online_to_Predict_the_Great_Recession.php

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Interview questions for QA managers

http://blog.testmunk.com/10-interview-questions-for-qa-managers/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations with Four Trappist Monks

http://www.theawl.com/2012/06/how-silence-works-trappist-monks

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

The Rise and Fall of RedBook

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/redbook/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 146 comments

Nasa's Dawn probe achieves orbit around Ceres

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/nasa-probe-finally-arrives-icy-alien-world/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Amazon opens a store on Alibaba

http://qz.com/357452/amazon-throws-in-the-towel-and-opens-a-store-on-alibaba/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158448

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 91 comments

Combining the power of R and D3.js

http://blog.ae.be/combining-the-power-of-r-and-d3-js/?hn

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978)

https://archive.org/stream/cryptolog_42#page/n16/mode/1up

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The rise of explorable explanations

http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/the-rise-of-explorable-explanations/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

BioFabric: New way to visualize large interaction networks without any hairballs

http://www.biofabric.org/gallery/pages/SuperQuickBioFabric.html#HN

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Why everything breaks at 25 employees

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/company-growth-everything-breaks-25-employees/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

GSM Network Characterization Using Software Defined Radios

http://blog.nikseetharaman.com/gsm-network-characterization-using-software-defined-radio/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

ArchieML is a structured text format optimized for human writeability

http://archieml.org/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

The Dangers of Intermediate Targets: IQ, Cholesterol, and 99%-ile Latency

http://danluu.com/percentile-latency/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Coding Like a Girl

https://medium.com/@sailorhg/coding-like-a-girl-595b90791cce

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Wolfenstein 1-D (2011)

http://www.wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Net neutrality is a “Taliban-like issue”, says Europe’s top digital policymaker

https://juliareda.eu/2015/03/oettinger-net-neutrality-taliban-like/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 63 comments

In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150306-in-lhcs-shadow-americas-collider-awakens/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments
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