top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-03-13

SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls

https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d4018042c70a4db733dd38f96896cd825f/src/os.h#L52

11 years ago

★ 1.9k C
792 upvotes – 108 comments

Balanced payments is shutting down

https://www.balancedpayments.com/stripe

11 years ago

384 upvotes – 172 comments

Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/03/stanford-neurosurgeon-writer-paul-kalanithi-dies-at-37.html

11 years ago

360 upvotes – 33 comments

“Sierra… well, it was the poor victim of a hostile takeover by criminals”

http://www.nodontdie.com/al-lowe/

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 111 comments

Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/fake-amazon-book-reviews-are-hurting-my-book.html

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 117 comments

California has about one year of water left

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 393 comments

Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years

https://medium.com/@landongn/12-years-later-what-i-ve-learned-about-being-a-software-engineer-d6e334d6e8a3

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 118 comments

How Apple Makes the Watch

http://atomicdelights.com/blog/a-glimpse-at-how-the-apple-watch-is-made

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 116 comments

When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared

https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 142 comments

Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 84 comments

Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/1188

11 years ago

★ 3.9k Ruby
223 upvotes – 152 comments

Julian Assange case: Sweden offers to question him in UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31867829

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 177 comments

Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/science/space/suddenly-it-seems-water-is-everywhere-in-solar-system.html

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: GraphQL for Postgres

https://github.com/solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL

11 years ago

★ 1k PLpgSQL
195 upvotes – 23 comments

Lucene: The Good Parts

http://blog.parsely.com/post/1691/lucene/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 16 comments

Zero

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zero.html?

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 18 comments

Hundreds of Thousands of Google Apps Domains’ Private WHOIS Leaked

http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/whoisdisclosure

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 45 comments

Bank harrasses user because he tweeted screenshot of their SSL certificate

http://ebalaskas.gr/blog/2015/03/13/web-bank-security/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 66 comments

GitHub's Game Off is back

https://github.com/blog/1972-the-game-has-changed

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 34 comments

Moog Schematics

http://moogfoundation.org/schematics/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 18 comments
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