top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-11

2015 Chromebook Pixel

http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/

11 years ago

643 upvotes – 628 comments

The Mighty Named Pipe

http://vincebuffalo.com/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.html

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 96 comments

Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html

11 years ago

366 upvotes – 178 comments

How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News

http://melodykramer.github.io/how-betty-who-is-89-gets-her-news/

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 249 comments

Apple App Store STATUS_CODE_ERROR causes service problems

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6868907

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 136 comments

There Is No Now – Problems with Simultaneity in Distributed Systems

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2745385

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 71 comments

Bayesian Methods for Hackers

https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 10 comments

Adopting Microservices at Netflix

http://nginx.com/blog/adopting-microservices-at-netflix-lessons-for-team-and-process-design/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 68 comments

Google Code Jam 2015

https://code.google.com/codejam/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Ultrasound Restores Memory to Mice with Alzheimer’s

http://www.popsci.com/ultrasound-restores-memory-mice-alzheimers

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 28 comments

Poor Kids of Silicon Valley

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/opinion/ctl-child-poverty

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 269 comments

Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architecture/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 69 comments

The Sad Truth About Developing Executives

http://recode.net/2015/03/11/the-sad-truth-about-developing-executives/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

OpenSSL Audit

https://cryptoservices.github.io/openssl/2015/03/09/openssl-audit.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

We use RethinkDB

http://blog.workshape.io/we-use-rethinkdb-at-workshapeio/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this

http://www.recallbee.com

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

The Pannini Projection – perspective images with very wide fields of view

http://tksharpless.net/vedutismo/Pannini/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 6 comments

Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the land of Haskell

http://lexi-lambda.github.io/learning-haskell/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 94 comments

A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors

http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 21 comments

Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/google-balloons-cell-towers-in-the-sky-can-serve-4g-to-a-whole-state/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 88 comments

Zop

http://zop.clay.io/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

Peter Lawrey Describes Petabyte JVMs

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/03/petabyte-jvms?utm_source=hacker%20news&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=petabyte%20news

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/new-smoking-gun-further-ties-nsa-to-omnipotent-equation-group-hackers/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 77 comments

Baobab: A JavaScript data tree supporting Om-style cursors, with React mixins

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab

11 years ago

★ 3.1k JavaScript MIT
113 upvotes – 30 comments

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed in a Large Corporation

http://steveblank.com/2015/03/11/fear-of-failure-and-lack-of-speed-in-a-large-corporation/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 58 comments

Tiny Docker Operating Systems

https://blog.docker.com/2015/03/tiny-docker-operating-systems/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engineering

http://qz.com/358929/law-school-enrollment-decline

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 108 comments

The adventures of Norway's most radical billionaire

http://fortune.com/2015/03/07/fred-olsen/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

Visualizing Projections

http://shaunlebron.github.io/visualizing-projections/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 11 comments

Safe TypeScript: Safe and Efficient Gradual Typing for TypeScript

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=226836

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Another round of image bugs: PNG and JPEG XR

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/03/another-round-of-image-bugs-png-and.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Success

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/upshot/early-retirement-in-the-nfl-and-at-google-and-the-paradox-of-success.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Paid, an API for invoicing

https://www.paidapi.com

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark

https://sutrotower.org/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Full details on CVE-2015-0096 and the failed MS10-046 Stuxnet fix

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Full-details-on-CVE-2015-0096-and-the-failed-MS10-046-Stuxnet/ba-p/6718459#.VP_m_lOS2hx

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Why are glasses so expensive? (2012)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/luxottica-eyewear-why-are-glasses-expensive/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 113 comments

Software Estimation Games

http://www.thomsett.com.au/library/item/estimation-games

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

"Yosemite": the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1616052405274961/introducing-yosemite-the-first-open-source-modular-chassis-for-high-powered-microservers-/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

React is badly designed

https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Efficient WebGL stroking

http://labs.hyperandroid.com/efficient-webgl-stroking

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

T-Mobile Poland Officially Accepts Bitcoin Top-Ups

http://www.t-mobile.pl/pl/dlaciebie/obsluga-klienta/doladuj-konto

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Thomas E. Dickey website: creator of dialog, lynx, diffstats, and other utils

http://invisible-island.net/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Introducing the “rhel-tools” for RHEL Atomic Host

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/03/11/introducing-the-rhel-container-for-rhel-atomic-host/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun

https://medium.com/backchannel/cody-wilson-wants-to-destroy-your-world-ad121c8b0a6

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

CoreOS Fest 2015

https://coreos.com/fest/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

http://www.thedailydrop.co

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Notable Labs (YC W15): Personalized Medical Testing for Brain Cancer Patients

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/10/yc-backed-notable-labs-provides-personalized-medical-testing-for-brain-cancer-patients

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

What I Learned at Salesforce.com

https://medium.com/@Mr.P/7-habits-of-successful-saas-startups-578c9da33e7e

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

A Strong Mode for JavaScript

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk0qC4s_XNCLemj42FqfsRLp49nDQMZ1y7fwf5YjaI4/view

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard

https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Startup Solidarity

http://sethbannon.com/startup-solidarity

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

First pictures of Tonga's newly-formed volcanic island

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-11/tonga-newly-formed-volcanic-island-first-pictures/6301480

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

What is good code? A scientific definition

http://engineering.intenthq.com/2015/03/what-is-good-code-a-scientific-definition/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 46 comments

WorkLife (YC W15) launches to end bad meetings

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/worklife-better-meetings/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

Hexagen: True coroutines for Swift

https://github.com/aliceatlas/hexagen

11 years ago

★ 153 C++ MIT
47 upvotes – 3 comments

Assignment: Creating a D&D Character

http://indistinguishablefrom.media.mit.edu/2015/03/11/assignment-creating-a-dd-character/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 61 comments

Automatic Topic-Modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation

http://engineering.intenthq.com/2015/02/automatic-topic-modelling-with-lda/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments
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