top 50% 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

Man In The Moonbase (Part 1): Death and Life of the Best Game You Never Played

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarbyMcDevitt/20150223/234684/Man_In_The_Moonbase_Part_1.php

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 5 comments

Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206002

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 76 comments

Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf]

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 7 comments

Ancient Rome’s Hexagonal Port City

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85488

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 8 comments

MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp

https://github.com/matlisp/matlisp

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Internet.org will finish internet the way we know it, hurt India’s growth

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/investigation/internetorg-will-finish-internet-the-way-we-know-it-hurt-indias-growth-potential

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Mobile site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206427

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

Making Pinterest HTTPS

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/113537918179/making-pinterest-https

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/your-money/how-many-mutual-funds-routinely-rout-the-market-zero.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 92 comments

Exponential Backoff and Jitter

http://www.awsarchitectureblog.com/2015/03/backoff.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Tracking Device Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Tracking+Device+Teardown/5250

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

Companies with a flat structure are weird

http://rkoutnik.com/articles/Flat-is-weird.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Swift WTF

http://swiftwtf.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

The Best of Material Design, Daily

http://www.materialup.com

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank

https://www.change.org/p/save-a-nerd-petition-against-felony-charge-for-harmless-retaliatory-wifi-prank-in-hacker-dojo-programming-club

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Please stop breaking the build

http://danluu.com/broken-builds/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

What Satoshi Didn't Know [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3e1Pzu7iI

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Lain, the Whom of the Verb World

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/03/09/lain-the-whom-of-the-verb-world/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

On Secretly Terrible (Old) Engineers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/15/gray-beards/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Procedural Altar Generation

http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2015/03/14/procedural-altar-generation/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Is your satellite link oscillating? Improving goodput using network coding

https://blog.apnic.net/2015/03/13/is-your-satellite-link-oscillating/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly

http://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float?

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview

http://sourceforge.net/p/retext/home/ReText/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 55 comments

Science Fairs Aren't So Fair

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-science-fairs-arent-so-fair/387547?single_page=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: How Do You Maintain Security When Working Remotely?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205480

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments
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