top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-09

Announcing Starfighter

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/

11 years ago

932 upvotes – 400 comments

The new MacBook

https://www.apple.com/macbook/

11 years ago

921 upvotes – 1269 comments

Raytracing a Black Hole

http://rantonels.github.io/starless/

11 years ago

368 upvotes – 38 comments

ResearchKit: A software framework designed to benefit medical research

http://www.apple.com/researchkit/

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 123 comments

Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 101 comments

Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar on Macs

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=13567

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 173 comments

Show HN: Find tech jobs that come with a visa

http://www.jobsintech.io

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 97 comments

Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore

https://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/devops-is-bullshit-why-one-programmer-doesnt-do-it-anymore/

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 163 comments

Code.nasa.gov

http://code.nasa.gov/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 28 comments

Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python/blob/master/table_of_contents.ipynb

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 28 comments

We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised the rewards

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/5-minutes-with-mariana-mazzucato/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 125 comments

What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar

http://qz.com/353138/this-is-what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-stop-eating-sugar/

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 194 comments

What a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/03/this-is-what-a-graph-of-8000-fake-twitter-accounts-looks-like/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 60 comments

In Defense of the Midwest

http://ntietz.com/2015/03/08/midwest-defense.html

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 171 comments

The sound of the dialup, pictured and explained (2012)

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 35 comments

Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/09/us-usa-patents-lee-confirmation-idUSKBN0M52DO20150309

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 34 comments

USB-C and Modular Smartphones Are the End-Game for Convergence

https://grack.com/blog/2015/01/16/usb-31-ara-are-the-convergence-end-game/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 55 comments

Moving all your data, 9TB edition

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 31 comments

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/04/im-a-12-year-old-girl-why-dont-the-characters-in-my-apps-look-like-me/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 138 comments

Pixie: A sweet Clojure-ish language

http://blog.goodstuff.im/pixie

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 105 comments

Open source license usage on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1964-open-source-license-usage-on-github-com

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 92 comments

Time travel in Braid

http://qntm.org/braid

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary

https://www.trycatch.cc/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 109 comments

Notes on 416 Days of Treadmill Desk Usage

http://nealstephenson.com/news/2015/03/09/notes-on-416-days-of-treadmill-desk-usage/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Shitphone: A Love Story

https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 57 comments

A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning

https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/deep-learning-hardware-guide/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers

https://www.makeschool.com/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 98 comments

Japan's Robot Dogs Get Funerals as Sony Looks Away

http://www.newsweek.com/japans-robot-dogs-get-funerals-sony-looks-away-312192

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Lint for Math

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lint-for-math/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

AppLovin: Processing 30B Requests A Day

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/9/applovin-marketing-to-mobile-consumers-worldwide-by-processi.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Linux-insides – A series of posts about the Linux kernel

http://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 4 comments

Coulomb explosion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_explosion

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 4 comments

Implementing fork() on the Mill CPU (2014)

http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2014/07/implementing-fork-on-mill-cpu.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

Raspberry PI 2 support added

http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/raspberry_pi_2_support_added

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Sam Simon, Who Helped Shape 'The Simpsons,' Dies at 59

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Relaxing with Runcible, the circular 'anti-smartphone'

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/runcible-circular-anti-smartphone/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Ross Ulbricht Calls for New Trial, Alleging Feds Hacked Tor

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/ross-ulbricht-calls-new-trial-alleging-feds-hacked-tor/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

Apple Watch Keynote Live Streaming

http://www.apple.com/live/2015-mar-event/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

The 2015 Wealth Report

http://content.knightfrank.com/research/83/documents/en/wealth-report-2015-2716.pdf

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

The revolutionary ion engine that took spacecraft to Ceres

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-revolutionary-ion-spacecraft-ceres.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Essential React, a minimal skeleton for building React apps using ES6

https://github.com/pheuter/essential-react

11 years ago

★ 2k JavaScript MIT
73 upvotes – 33 comments

Isaac Newton and Alchemy

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/project/about.do

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Girl, Interrupted: Who Was Sappho?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Postman 2.0 with Sync

http://blog.getpostman.com/index.php/2015/03/03/postman-2-0-with-sync-is-here/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Discover what songs were used in YouTube videos

http://www.mooma.sh

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Web Fonts on GitHub

https://github.com/google/fonts

11 years ago

★ 19.9k HTML
68 upvotes – 7 comments

Tokyo WWII firebombing, the most deadly bombing raid, remembered 70 years on

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-09/tokyo-wwii-firebombing-remembered-70-years-on/6287486

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 96 comments

The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs

http://andrewchen.co/the-law-of-shitty-clickthroughs/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

SkyBlue – Small SASS framework

https://stanko.github.io/skyblue

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Assembly Line Nuclear Reactors Are Quietly Building Steam in the Northwest

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/assembly-line-nuclear-reactors-are-quietly-building-steam-in-the-northwest

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 72 comments

Caches and Lisp: faster list processing via auto-rearranging memory (2003) [pdf]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/cachelisp.pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Online gambling firm Bet365 has swapped Java for Erlang

http://www.techworld.com/apps/how-bet365-solved-reliability-scalability-by-swapping-java-for-erlang-3600737/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

A new theory for why bees are declining

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/9/8174949/bee-decline-parasites-pesticides-flowers

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Dead Drops: what to do if you see a USB stick sticking out of a wall

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/mar/08/dead-drops-what-to-do-if-you-see-a-usb-stick-sticking-out-of-a-wall

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Teach or Perish

http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-or-Perish/151187/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

A shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893514/an-incredibly-shrinking-firefox-faces-endangered-species-status.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 86 comments

Maybe stop using Grunt?

https://medium.com/@nickheiner/maybe-you-should-stop-using-grunt-40ac57fd6ad9

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Notes on the Plan 9 3rd edition Kernel Source (2007) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.75.5409&rep=rep1&type=pdf

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

The Emperor's New Amplifier (2003)

http://www.normankoren.com/Audio/TENA.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments

Socket.IO on iOS

http://socket.io/blog/socket-io-on-ios/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments
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