top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-07

This bakery will hire anyone

http://grist.org/food/felons-addicts-immigrants-this-bakery-will-hire-anyone/

11 years ago

373 upvotes – 168 comments

Apple gold

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/03/apple-gold/

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 95 comments

Why didn't you back me up?

https://plus.google.com/108159551615224338529/posts/L4wawXpNt25

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 416 comments

Windows 93 in JavaScript

http://www.windows93.net/?

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 73 comments

The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go

https://togototo.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/fulfilling-a-pikedream-the-ups-of-downs-of-porting-50k-lines-of-c-to-go/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 105 comments

Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILlZRLhBJE

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 91 comments

Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning-general-programming

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 22 comments

Academia's 1%

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/929-academia-s-1-percent

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 137 comments

Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162139

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 61 comments

Terence Tao: the Mozart of maths

http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/terence-tao-the-mozart-of-maths-20150306-13fwcv.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 51 comments

Hermit crabs line up by order of size to exchange shells [video]

https://vimeo.com/117375257

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 20 comments

Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth

http://rein.pk/gravitational-lensing-to-observe-ancient-earth/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Catena: A time series storage engine written in Go

http://misfra.me/state-of-the-state-part-iii

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 21 comments

RuboCop – A Ruby static code analyzer

http://batsov.com/rubocop/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Coding Like a Girl

https://medium.com/@sailorhg/coding-like-a-girl-595b90791cce?source=email-2bdd02cf5da2-1425730391921-daily_digest

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 163 comments

A database of SMS cards: The technology inside IBM's 1960s mainframes

http://www.righto.com/2015/03/a-database-of-sms-cards-technology.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

Why do we care about Xiaomi?

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/1/18/why-do-we-care-about-xiaomi

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

A Robot That Collapses Under Pressure (In a Good Way)

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/robot-collapses-pressure-good-way/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 8 comments

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then?

https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

Silent Circle canary missing declaration?

https://canary.silentcircle.com/?new-issue

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

MIT Bitcoin Expo Livestream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgjogLipvk

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

I Tried VR Porn, and It Was Weird

http://kotaku.com/i-tried-vr-porn-and-it-was-weird-1689987385

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Vimb – Vim-Like Web Browser

http://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

I Was a Guard in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2y5sbt/iwasa_guard_in_the_1971_stanford_prison/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

DNSChain 0.5 released, brings full HTTPS support, Openname Resolver API and more

https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/03/dnschain-0-5-released-https-openname-resolver-api-more/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Backblaze Storage Pod 4.5 – Tweaking a Proven Design

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-4-5-tweaking-a-proven-design/?hn=1

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 59 comments

Einstein Notation applied in programming

http://hz2.org/blog/einstein_notation.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

The K-Cup Coffee Pod Problem

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/print/2015/03/the-abominable-k-cup-coffee-pod-environment-problem/386501/?single_page=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: I'm in SF for the weekend. What places can I tour that tout their tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162233

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Conkeror

http://conkeror.org/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

China’s Arthur C. Clarke

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/chinas-arthur-c-clarke?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

There’s a Real Archaeological Surprise in Honduras

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2015/03/03/theres-a-real-archaeological-surprise-in-honduras/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

The Tricky World of Securing Firmware

https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2015/02/20/tricky-world-securing-firmware/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments
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