top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-12

Sir Terry Pratchett has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

11 years ago

1019 upvotes – 223 comments

Bidding farewell to Google Code

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html

11 years ago

880 upvotes – 409 comments

Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification

https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux

11 years ago

★ 3.5k C GPL-3.0
523 upvotes – 147 comments

Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-on-dx12vulkanmantle/?view=findpost&p=5215019

11 years ago

442 upvotes – 155 comments

Your Most Important Skill: Empathy

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2014/01/19/empathy/

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 132 comments

My Roommate, the Darknet Drug Lord

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/my-roommate-the-darknet-drug-lord

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 161 comments

Open source USB Type-C to HDMI Adapter

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/hoho

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 46 comments

How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microsoft-everyone-else/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 87 comments

Lyft Raises $530M in Fight with Uber

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/11/lyft-raises-530-million-in-fight-with-uber/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 113 comments

Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (2001) [pdf]

http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/essay.pdf

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 134 comments

FAA says monetized videos shot from drones are subject to commercial regulations

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-faa-says-you-cant-post-drone-videos-on-youtube?utm_source=mbfb

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 230 comments

FCC Releases Open Internet Order

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 148 comments

Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/11/drones-and-the-rise-of-the-hig.html

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 156 comments

Accidentally Quadratic

http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 78 comments

Chrome introduces Web App install banners

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 74 comments

The most important API you’ve never heard of

http://rockhealth.com/2015/03/important-api-youve-never-heard/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 47 comments

Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 88 comments

The day I was DoSed by Google

http://thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-day-i-was-dosed-by-google.html

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 63 comments

Fantasy author Pratchett dies aged 66

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 1 comments

Tubes vs. Torrents: The Ethics of Piracy

http://graphicdescriptions.com/28-tubes-vs-torrents-the-ethics-of-piracy

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 54 comments

Lyft

http://a16z.com/2015/03/12/lyft/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

The Passport King

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-11/passport-king-christian-kalin-helps-nations-sell-citizenship

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Wget-finder

http://javier.io/blog/en/2015/02/27/wget-finder.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/blob/master/README.rst

11 years ago

★ 43k
130 upvotes – 43 comments

Venture capital has a self-dealing problem

http://fusion.net/story/102544/venture-capital-has-a-self-dealing-problem/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

http://realproblemhunt.com/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 42 comments

The Curse of the Black Lotus – How MtG Avoided Becoming Beanie Babies

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=392381112

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 84 comments

How to Implement a Programming Language in JavaScript

http://lisperator.net/pltut/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Docker acquires Kitematic

http://blog.docker.com/2015/03/kitematic-a-docker-gui-joins-the-docker-family/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

NTP's Fate Hinges on 'Father Time'

http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432?_mc=RSS_IWK_EDT

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

I barely graduated college, and that's okay

http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/i-barely-graduated-college/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

How my son and I kind of became game programmers

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/how-my-son-and-i-became-game-programmers-scatch

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

How to start JIT-ting

https://blog.indutny.com/4.how-to-start-jitting

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

What should the next Aaron Swartz do when the DOJ knocks?

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/12/aaron-swartz-and-impact-litiga.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31834927

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 86 comments

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers

http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Author’s Note 119: Shameless Blegging

http://hpmor.com/notes/119/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Pinterest open sources Pinball – a flexible data workflow manager

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/113376157699/open-sourcing-pinball

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Lisp in 3 words

http://www.vagrant-coder.com/articles/english/Lisp-in-3-words.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

https://github.com/jakke-korpelainen/newtab

11 years ago

★ 99 JavaScript MIT
73 upvotes – 30 comments

Algorithmia Launches with More Than 800 Algorithms on Its Marketplace

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/algorithmia-launches-with-more-than-800-algorithms-on-its-marketplace/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Brings Street View to Mount Everest Region

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/google-partners-with-local-nonprofit-to-bring-street-view-better-maps-to-mount-everest-region/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Enterprise software vendors have no taste

https://medium.com/michael-dubakov-selection/enterprise-software-vendors-have-no-taste-add7e78b7f69

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 97 comments

GoogleFeud

http://googlefeud.com/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

Flash Boys a Year Later

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/michael-lewis-flash-boys-one-year-later

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

Moving Fast on Hardware with io.js

https://tessel.io/blog/112888410737/moving-faster-with-io-js

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

How to Handle Big Git Repositories

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/handle-big-repositories-git/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/treeline-wants-to-take-the-coding-out-of-building-a-backend/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Go? Use Racket

https://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/why-go-use-racket/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 57 comments

Company hit with $1.1M penalty under Canadian anti-spam rules

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/5499/Quebec-company-hit-with-$1.1-million-penalty-under-CASL.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

ARM and the BBC collaborate on a new initiative

http://community.arm.com/groups/internet-of-things/blog/2015/03/12/arm-and-the-bbc-collaborate-on-a-new-initiative

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

I have moved to naming global singletons with a The* prefix

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/575788622554628096

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Alarming number of spam false positives in Gmail

http://journal.dedasys.com/2015/03/12/alarming-number-of-spam-false-positives-in-gmail/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments
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