top 50% 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

A success story for Haxe

http://nadako.tumblr.com/post/113390739725/a-success-story-for-haxe

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 64 comments

How the sugar industry shaped key government research about your teeth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/11/the-sneaky-way-the-sugar-industry-shaped-government-funded-dental-research

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 54 comments

Fidor Bank API

http://docs.fidor.de/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Konrad Zuse: Nearly the German Turing

http://www.linuxvoice.com/konrad-zuse-nearly-the-german-turing-5/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

Looking after your wellbeing at DjangoCon Europe

http://2015.djangocon.eu/news/wellbeing/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 45 comments

Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina

http://www.fastcompany.com/3043388/the-y-combinator-chronicles/why-y-combinator-funded-a-radical-political-party-in-argentina

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 104 comments

The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/magazine/the-heart-stopping-climbs-of-alex-honnold.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

We Tried Building a Remote Team and It Sucked

http://blog.statuspage.io/we-tried-building-a-remote-team-and-it-sucked

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 96 comments

Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network

http://willwhitney.github.io/dc-ign/www/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Announcing Spark 1.3

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/03/13/announcing-spark-1-3.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Study: Teen Cannabis Users Have Poor Long-Term Memory in Adulthood

http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/news/2015/03/Csernansky-teen-cannabis-use.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

Mapping Your Music Collection

http://www.christianpeccei.com/musicmap/?utm_content=buffer723e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

A concise JavaScript tutorial for beginners

https://slides.com/concise/js/fullscreen

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 17 comments

DigitalGlobe: 30cm satellite imagery

https://www.digitalglobe.com/30cm/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Study and Interactive Visualization of Toxicity in Reddit Communities

http://idibon.com/toxicity-in-reddit-communities-a-journey-to-the-darkest-depths-of-the-interwebs/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/13/apple-ceo-tim-cook-offered-steve-jobs-a-life-saving-gift-but-he-refused/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

HGST gets closer to shipping 10TB HDD

http://www.zdnet.com/article/hgst-gets-closer-to-shipping-10tb-hdd/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 64 comments

A Microscope That Can See Down to Individual Atoms

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-microscope-can-see-down-to-individual-atoms

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Can Family Secrets Make You Sick?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/02/377569413/can-family-secrets-make-you-sick

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

I signed up to write apps for my Amazon Echo, Amazon sent me an NDA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197489

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

GoVPN – simple secure free software virtual private network daemon

http://www.cypherpunks.ru/govpn/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

A self-fueled liquid metal motor

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27127-liquid-metal-brings-shapeshifting-robot-a-step-closer.html#.VQD16fmG-So

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/california-pumping-water-fell-earth-20000-years-ago

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traced to 1 Police Plaza

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/03/8563947/edits-wikipedia-pages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza#

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31864218

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Klib: A standalone and lightweight glib

https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib

11 years ago

★ 4.6k C MIT
70 upvotes – 16 comments

Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/nyregion/the-wet-wipes-box-says-flush-but-the-new-york-city-sewer-system-says-dont.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments

COBOL on Wheelchair

http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

How one perfume company misled scientists into believing in human sex pheromones

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8202465/sex-pheromones

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Know Your Tools – Terminal and Bash

http://www.spacecowboyrocketcompany.com/2015/02/know-your-tools/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

Reagent 0.5.0 – Minimalistic ClojureScript interface to React.js

https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent

11 years ago

★ 4.8k Clojure MIT
62 upvotes – 18 comments

Tracking traveler phones lets Cincinnati airport cut security line wait by third

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/12/8203555/cvg-airport-cut-security-times-with-phone-tracking

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Gosrc.org: Go documentation site

https://sourcegraph.com/.godoc

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

OpenBSD 5.7 Preorders Started

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150312203013

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments
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