top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-03-15

Khan Academy: Algorithms

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/algorithms

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 69 comments

Adventures in message queues

http://antirez.com/news/88

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205177

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 153 comments

Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt

http://xonsh.org/

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207360

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 134 comments

The Church of TED

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-church-of-ted.html

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 94 comments

Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 164 comments

End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 44 comments

The web of names, hashes and UUIDs

https://joearms.github.io/2015/03/12/The_web_of_names.html

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 77 comments

Valve's SteamVR solves big problems and poses bigger questions

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-15-valves-astounding-steamvr-solves-big-problems-and-poses-bigger-questions

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build?

http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/03/02/geospatial-databases-are-hard?h

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 54 comments

Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access

http://www.fastcompany.com/3043716/sxsw/twitter-only-gave-meerkat-2-hours-notice-before-cutting-access-to-the-social-graph

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 75 comments

Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant

https://github.com/jhauswald/sirius

11 years ago

★ 255 Java
165 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205892

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 86 comments

The importance of user interface, illustrated by the Go flag package

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoFlagUIImportance

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2294v1

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

Scrum seems to be mostly about having better alibis

http://agileoverflow.com/t/scrum-seems-to-be-mostly-about-having-better-alibis/47

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/pruning.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 13 comments

Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor

http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/diy-trips/Loudsourcing-How-TripAdvisor-Is-Changing-the-Way-We-Travel.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009)

http://www.nextnature.net/2009/08/why-are-carrots-orange-it-is-political/?hn

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments
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