top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-10

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

http://developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql/

11 years ago

802 upvotes – 374 comments

Welcome Peter

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter

11 years ago

649 upvotes – 148 comments

Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/

11 years ago

585 upvotes – 130 comments

USB Killer

http://kukuruku.co/hub/diy/usb-killer

11 years ago

511 upvotes – 190 comments

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years

11 years ago

408 upvotes – 95 comments

Gigaom Closes Down

http://recode.net/2015/03/09/techs-pioneering-tech-blog-gigaom-closes-down/

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 220 comments

The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 129 comments

Strengthening JavaScript

https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments

11 years ago

343 upvotes – 221 comments

When Nerds Collide (2014)

https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 342 comments

Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 118 comments

Peripheral vision in Quake

https://github.com/shaunlebron/blinky#blinky

11 years ago

★ 715 C MIT
231 upvotes – 25 comments

Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime

http://yabatadesign.github.io/afterglow-theme/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 89 comments

End the Ethanol Rip-Off

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/end-the-ethanol-rip-off.html

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 152 comments

Ellen Pao Owns the Room

http://www.techcrunch.com/2015/03/09/ellen-pao-owns-the-room/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 198 comments

Invented by OpenBSD

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/invented-by-openbsd

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 93 comments

Ending the open office epidemic

http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/06/wildbit-hq-ending-the-open-office-epidemic/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 144 comments

React v0.13 released

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/03/10/react-v0.13.html

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 62 comments

The joyless world of data-driven startups

https://medium.com/@zambonini/the-joyless-world-of-data-driven-startups-b6f475f11f5f

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 77 comments

Motion sensing using the doppler effect

https://danielrapp.github.io/doppler/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 24 comments

Bill Watterson talks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/03/09/bill-watterson-talks-this-is-why-you-must-read-the-new-exploring-calvin-and-hobbes-book/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 60 comments

Go 1.5 concurrent garbage collector pacing

https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/document/d/1wmjrocXIWTr1JxU-3EQBI6BK6KgtiFArkG47XK73xIQ/edit#heading=h.q556xotjblu6

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Acid Techno Machine

http://errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Linux Code of Conflict

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0bc65729070b9cbdbb53ff042984a3c545a0e34

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 109 comments

Google Calendar for iPhone

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/google-calendar-for-iphone-its-about.html

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 65 comments

What's your chance of getting a U.S. work visa? Find out with BorderScore

http://score.teleborder.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=social&utm_content=interviewing&utm_campaign=borderscore

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

FriendFeed is shutting down

http://blog.friendfeed.com/2015/03/dear-friendfeed-community-were.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

Calling the Oregon Lottery's Bluff After Poker Machine Dealt a Strange Hand

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-24178-man_vs_machine.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 115 comments

Secretive Bitcoin Startup 21 Reveals Record Funds, Hints at Mass Consumer Play

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/10/secretive-bitcoin-startup-21-reveals-record-funds-hints-at-mass-consumer-play/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 95 comments

Redis Conference 2015 Recap

http://antirez.com/news/87

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 41 comments

Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?

http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/2x9q6r/best_way_to_handle_interviewer_asking_me_out_on_a/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 199 comments

Xen hypervisor memory corruption due to x86 emulator flaw

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-123.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

USB Typewriter

http://www.usbtypewriter.com/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

Drawing Lines is Hard – an interactive look at GPU line rendering

http://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard#

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 21 comments

Netflix on an NES

http://gizmodo.com/netflix-on-an-nes-is-the-best-worst-way-to-watch-netfli-1690585053

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 26 comments

SolidOak, an IDE written in Rust

https://github.com/oakes/SolidOak

11 years ago

★ 895 Rust Unlicense
99 upvotes – 45 comments

Europe reverses course on net neutrality legislation

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/europe-reverses-course-on-net-neutrality-legislation/?r

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

http://firstround.com/review/what-the-seed-funding-boom-means-for-raising-a-series-a/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

The state of SIMD.js performance in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/03/10/state-of-simd-js-performance-in-firefox/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

Working Effectively with Unit Tests

http://blog.fogcreek.com/working-effectively-with-unit-tests-interview-with-jay-fields/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Ventures' Bill Maris Investing in Idea of Living to 500

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/google-ventures-bill-maris-investing-in-idea-of-living-to-500?

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

HBO Now DNSSEC Misconfiguration Makes Site Unavailable from Comcast Networks

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/03/hbo-now-dnssec-misconfiguration-makes-site-unavailable-from-comcast-networks-fixed-now/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180229

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

Intel Xeon D Launched: 14 Nm Broadwell SoC for Enterprise

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9070/intel-xeon-d-launched-14nm-broadwell-soc-for-enterprise

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Haskell Primitives

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/02/primitive-haskell

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

MySQL 5.7.6 is out

http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2015/03/mysql-5.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Leaving MongoDB and Joining OrientDB

http://dataandco.expertly.io/post/113253941965/a-new-adventure-leaving-mongodb-and-joining

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Jobs, automation, Engels’ pause and the limits of history

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/03/09/2120134/jobs-automation-engels-pause-and-the-limits-of-history/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone had success with Canada's startup visa?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179838

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

Radical Vaccine Design Effective Against Herpes Viruses

https://www.hhmi.org/news/radical-vaccine-design-effective-against-herpes-viruses

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

The big data successor of the spreadsheet

https://medium.com/p/rewriting-excel-for-the-era-of-big-ger-data-part-2-c13cc40f248e

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

How Ikea took over the world

http://fortune.com/ikea-world-domination/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: theca – a simple CLI note taking tool in Rust

https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

The Hardest Shot in Bowling

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/02/hardest_shot_in_bowling_it_s_not_the_7_10_split_it_s_the_greek_church.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

The economy of weirdness

https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/the-economy-of-weirdness

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

How I built my first Android Game

http://kukuruku.co/hub/gamedev/how-i-built-my-first-android-game-and-realized-creativity-is-all-about-iterations

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments
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