top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-16

“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153190864139878

11 years ago

491 upvotes – 602 comments

High quality GIF with FFmpeg

http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html

11 years ago

482 upvotes – 124 comments

Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

http://www.apertoire.net/gogs-an-alternative-to-gitlab/

11 years ago

424 upvotes – 231 comments

The Hating Game

http://rachelnabors.com/2015/03/13/the-hating-game

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 135 comments

Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 68 comments

How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/16/how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware.html

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 189 comments

Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them

http://fusion.net/story/61741/hertz-cameras-in-rental-cars/

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 127 comments

Programmer Passion Considered Harmful

https://medium.com/on-coding/programmer-passion-considered-harmful-5c5d4e3a9b28

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 158 comments

GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain

https://www.gitbook.com/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 74 comments

Rent Control Creates Higher Rents in SF

http://www.nickstefan.net/blog/view/sf-rent-control

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 281 comments

What you wanted to know about AI

http://fastml.com/what-you-wanted-to-know-about-ai/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 157 comments

Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-study-shows-success-different-learning-styles-computer-science-class

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 51 comments

Best Linux server backup system?

https://gist.github.com/drkarl/739a864b3275e901d317

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 127 comments

PHP7 Gains Scalar Type Hints

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5#vote

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 143 comments

Can a city really ban cars from its streets? (2014)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140204-can-a-city-really-go-car-free?

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 208 comments

Libraries.io – Open-Source Discovery Service

http://libraries.io/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

Deploy based on the planet alignments

https://github.com/lhartikk/AstroBuild

11 years ago

★ 462 Python Apache-2.0
134 upvotes – 45 comments

Internet Cafe Refugees – Japan's Disposable Workers

http://disposableworkers.com/?page_id=37

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Life Lessons from Machine Learning

https://outlookzen.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/life-lessons-from-machine-learning/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Moltin – eCommerce Back End as a Service

https://moltin.com/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/13/readme-creates-crisp-documentation-for-developers-using-your-apis/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 46 comments

Pinterest Raises $367M at $11B valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/16/pinterest-raises-367-million-pushing-it-past-1-billion-raised-in-all/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 111 comments

Thomas Edison's 146 question interview for prospective employees

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/thomas-edisons-146-question-knowledge-test-for-prospective-employees.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

HTML as a programming language – unifying HTML with Erlang

http://joearms.github.io/2015/03/16/HTML-As-A-Programming-Language.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

MuJS: an embeddable JavaScript interpreter

http://mujs.com/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 56 comments

Was 2015 Boston's worst winter yet?

http://web.mit.edu/bletham/www/winter2015.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 43 comments

The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Incuriosity Will Kill Your Infrastructure

http://yellerapp.com/posts/2015-03-16-incuriosity-killed-the-infrastructure.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/16/yc-backed-pakible-makes-it-dead-simple-for-businesses-to-design-ship-packaging/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Nevada marijuana legalization gets official OK for 2016 ballot

http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/12/08/nevada-marijuana-legalization-2016-ballot/24954/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (1945)

http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Some Bankers Are Leaving Finance for Fintech Startups

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-15/bankers-embracing-zero-salary-in-tech-may-make-peers-obsolete

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 56 comments

Semaphores are surprisingly versatile

http://preshing.com/20150316/semaphores-are-surprisingly-versatile/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and Its De-Stigmatization [pdf]

http://www.jeremygreenwood.net/papers/fgg14.pdf

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 60 comments

How not to advertise for a job in London

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/113428268598/how-not-to-advertise-for-a-job-in-london

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Using DNS to solve the mobile deep linking problem

http://drhod.es/dns-deep-linking

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

OpenSSL release announced for Mar 19. Fixes “high” severity security defects.

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-March/000020.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Ring brings Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ring-brings-ancient-viking-islamic-civilizations-closer-together

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments

Machine Learning and Computer Vision Resources

http://zhengrui.github.io/zerryland/ML-CV-Resource.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

F# Units of Measure – A Worked Example

http://stevenpemberton.net/blog/2015/03/11/FSharp-Units-Of-Measure/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Shift Labs (YC W15) Makes Medical Devices for Healthcare’s Future

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/16/shift-labs-medical-devices-dripassist/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Chrome team planning to block all access from browser to localhost wss

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378566

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 83 comments

OCaml: Objects

https://haifengl.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/ocaml-objects/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Firefox search app silently logs Firefox address bar searches

https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/SwatDigitalFreedom/google-search.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Stopping expensive queries before they start

http://adpgtech.blogspot.com/2015/02/stopping-expensive-queries-before-they.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

The melting of Antarctica

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/16/the-melting-of-antarctica-was-already-really-bad-it-just-got-worse/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

Back End Apps with Webpack: Part I

http://jlongster.com/Backend-Apps-with-Webpack--Part-I

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture-Funded Media Startup

https://medium.com/@michaelwolf/gigaom-the-life-and-death-of-a-venture-funded-media-startup-eb3fbdc4e732

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Etsy’s Success Raises Problems of Credibility and Scale

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/media/etsys-success-raises-problems-of-credibility-and-scale.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Tracking Joy at Work

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-03-15-tracking-joy-at-work.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

How Robots and Algorithms Are Taking Over

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/02/how-robots-algorithms-are-taking-over/?insrc=toc

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Robert Putnam on the gap between rich kids and poor kids

http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Robert-Putnam-Save-the/228443/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 58 comments

An Infinite Regress. Of Dumb: More Reflections on “Market Efficiency”

https://medium.com/bull-market/the-last-time-i-saw-richard-thaler-speak-he-talked-about-the-beauty-contest-game-in-the-beauty-2e0b767d9098/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 56 comments

Never Use Glassdoor from Work

https://lustforge.com/2014/11/02/never-user-glassdoor-from-work/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

How the CIA Might Target Apple's XCode

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/how_the_cia_mig.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Attacks Only Get Better: Password Recovery Attacks Against RC4 in TLS

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/RC4mustdie.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Which problems can we build an MVP for in a week?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210981

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 49 comments

Yahoo wants to let you forget your Yahoo password

http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-wants-to-let-you-forget-your-yahoo-password/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 52 comments

A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh It’s Secret

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/a-police-gadget-tracks-phones-shhh-its-secret.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Keyword suggestion tool and “only question" feature

http://sg.serpstat.com/site/search?query=hacker&question=1&region=us

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments

Lookback 1.0. Record bugs and feedback, now on Android, Mac and iOS

http://lookback.io

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

How Warren Robinett Invented the Console Adventure Game

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/warren-robinett-adventure/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth anything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211643

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 62 comments
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