top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-08

On Secretly Terrible Engineers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/

11 years ago

463 upvotes – 379 comments

Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower

https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me-unless-you-re-ready-to-call-somebody-a-whistleblower-e5d545e547b0

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 370 comments

The $5000 Compression Challenge

http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 168 comments

Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)

http://www.yacoset.com/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-bad-programmer

11 years ago

289 upvotes – 170 comments

A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google

https://github.com/mroth/unindexed/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript WTFPL
233 upvotes – 121 comments

Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go

http://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 109 comments

Dropwizard 0.8.0: Java framework for ops-friendly, high-performance web services

http://dropwizard.io

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 89 comments

In the age of free AAA game engines, are we still relevant?

http://jmonkeyengine.org/301602/in-the-age-of-free-aaa-game-engines-are-we-still-relevant/

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 80 comments

Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/algorithm-human-quiz.html

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 69 comments

Boiling React Down to Few Lines in JQuery

http://hackflow.com/blog/2015/03/08/boiling-react-down-to-few-lines-in-jquery/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2015/03/msg00133.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: Shitty Listings algorithmically finds undervalued property

http://www.shittylistings.com/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165278

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 133 comments

I was a professor at four universities. I still couldn’t make ends meet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/06/i-was-a-professor-at-four-universities-i-still-couldnt-make-ends-meet/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

Who Says C is Simple? (2010)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

Valley Talent

http://rkoutnik.com/articles/Valley-Talent.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

India goes digital

http://digilocker.gov.in/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Time-Series Database Requirements

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/06/08/time-series-database-requirements/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls

http://onlyagame.wbur.org/2015/03/07/schilling-twitter-daughter-baseball

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 172 comments

The Price of Oil Is About to Blow a Hole in Corporate Accounting

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/oil-at-95-a-barrel-discovered-in-sec-rules-on-reserves

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Bish – Shell scripting with a modern feel

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

11 years ago

★ 1.4k C++ MIT
84 upvotes – 42 comments

Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/upshot/true-reform-in-higher-education-when-online-degrees-are-seen-as-official.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&abt=0002&abg=0

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine

http://www.datacommunitydc.org/blog/2013/05/recommendation-engines-why-you-shouldnt-build-one

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

McDonald’s Seeks Its Fast-Food Soul

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/business/mcdonalds-seeks-its-fast-food-soul.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 48 comments

Railway Oriented Programming

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21645505-protect-itself-attack-estonia-finding-ways-back-up-its-data-how?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/howtobackupacountry

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Cloud Platform free for 60 days

https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

The King of Kombucha

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201503/tom-foster/the-king-of-kombucha.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

Ex Google engineer claims she was harassed and “Google did nothing about it”

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/03/07/former-google-engineer-claims-she-was-sexually-harassed-google-did-nothing-about-it

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 115 comments

Two quantum properties teleported together for first time

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/feb/27/two-quantum-properties-teleported-together-for-first-time

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: A note taking application that encrypts in the browser

https://github.com/moyaproject/notes

11 years ago

★ 132 JavaScript
58 upvotes – 43 comments

Operating system research – 16 years perspective (2008)

http://vyodaiken.com/2008/10/07/operating-system-research-14-years-perspective/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Program Synthesis in Reverse Engineering [pdf]

http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/2014/D1_01_Rolf_Rolles_Program_Synthesis_in_reverse_Engineering.pdf

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

Neurostimulation: Hacking your brain

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21645509-diy-bundle-electronics-or-ready-made-device-it-possible-stimulate

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Gg – Git Shortcuts, Colored Outputs, and More

https://github.com/qw3rtman/gg

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Shell MIT
48 upvotes – 46 comments

Mapillary Is Building a Crowdsourced Street View with User Submitted Photos

http://petapixel.com/2015/03/08/mapillary-is-building-a-crowdsourced-street-view-with-user-submitted-photos

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

OpenCV for Secret Agents

http://opencv.org/opencv-for-secret-agents-2.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (2001)

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/12/20/211923/84

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

Why are there so many wallets on Kickstarter?

https://www.kickstarter.com/stories/wallets

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 54 comments
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