top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-17

I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name

11 years ago

610 upvotes – 360 comments

Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production

http://carbon3d.com

11 years ago

517 upvotes – 106 comments

Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites

http://www.google.com/makani/

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 161 comments

The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

472 upvotes – 209 comments

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 275 comments

Resume in C

https://gist.github.com/klange/4042963

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 112 comments

Send Money to Friends in Messenger

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/03/send-money-to-friends-in-messenger/

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 280 comments

Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/03/17/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-internet-explorer-brand/

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 209 comments

Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look

http://tonyarcieri.com/would-rust-have-prevented-heartbleed-another-look

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 186 comments

The Book of Shaders

http://patriciogonzalezvivo.com/2015/thebookofshaders/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 40 comments

Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel

http://blog.viraptor.info/post/your-wifi-shows-me-where-you-live-work-and-travel

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 69 comments

Things Every Kid Should Master

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/02/26/things-every-kid-should-master/uM72LGr63zeaStOp9zGyrJ/story.html

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 120 comments

Theo de Raadt on OpenSSL vulnerabilities coming on the 19th

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142654095813320&w=2

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 66 comments

PDF Viewing

https://github.com/blog/1974-pdf-viewing

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 60 comments

The HTTPS-Only Standard

https://https.cio.gov

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 94 comments

Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-03-17/linux-performance-analysis-perf-tools.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 15 comments

Fuzzy Math That's Creating Many Billion-Dollar Tech Valuations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/the-fuzzy-insane-math-that-s-creating-so-many-billion-dollar-tech-companies

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 73 comments

Housing markets: The spectre haunting San Francisco

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/04/housing-markets

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 97 comments

App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/17/app-submissions-on-google-play-now-reviewed-by-staff-will-include-age-based-ratings/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments

Why parking spaces shouldn't always be wasted on cars

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/17/when-parking-spaces-shouldnt-be-wasted-on-cars/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 96 comments

MIT students open up about stress

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/16/mit-students-open-about-stress/dS61oA5tiKqjvVsJ5VZRAL/story.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 94 comments

The best interface is no interface

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8103593/golden-krishna-best-interface-is-no-interface-excerpt

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 56 comments

UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152750149271868&id=41670261867

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 39 comments

Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard

http://technomancy.us/173

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Scala: Where it came from, Where it's going

http://www.slideshare.net/Odersky/scala-days-san-francisco-45917092

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 126 comments

An Introduction to High-Performance Flashlights (2011)

http://www.asos1.com/flashlight/flashlight01.htm?

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 56 comments

YC Stats Winter 2015

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats-winter-2015

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 95 comments

Dell’s Linux PC sequel still just works, but adds 4K screen and rough edges

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/review-dell-m3800-developer-edition-is-a-great-linux-pc-with-a-few-rough-edges/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/393339590/why-many-smart-low-income-students-dont-apply-to-elite-schools

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 81 comments

Windows Hello – Biometric authentication to Windows 10 devices

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/17/making-windows-10-more-personal-and-more-secure-with-windows-hello/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint

https://devblog.uber.com/take-your-users-for-a-spin/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

Google will eventually open the Google Now API to app developers

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/open-google-now-make-android-super-smart/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 72 comments

LibreSSL 2.1.5 released

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142655686417434

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Accidentally Quadratic?

http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/113840433022/why-accidentally-quadratic

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

I code like a girl

http://volumelabs.net/i-code-like-a-girl/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 156 comments

Who are the Japanese? (2008)

http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Dear Packaging, I Hate You

https://medium.com/@BoltVC/dear-packaging-i-hate-you-6608dceefe8b

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-opens-door-to-smartphone-games-1426579567

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 87 comments

Miscellany № 59: the percent sign

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/03/percent-sign/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

Golang Internals, Part 2: Diving into the Go Compiler

http://blog.altoros.com/golang-internals-part-2-diving-into-the-go-compiler.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 3 comments

The sad state of browser matrix transforms

http://atirip.com/2015/03/17/sorry-sad-state-of-matrix-transforms-in-browsers/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

How Millennials Get News

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/millennials-news/?1=2

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Spam Filtering Service Had Access to Clinton Emails

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2015/03/16/breaking-news-spam-filtering-service-had-access-to-clinton-classified-emails/comment-page-1/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Florida and the Science Who Must Not Be Named

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/florida-science-must-not-named/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 77 comments

iMicrobes (YC W15) Builds Bacteria to Produce Chemicals from Natural Gas

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/16/industrial-microbes/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

BitTorrent-Style Updates Revealed in Windows 10

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-style-updates-revealed-in-leaked-windows-10-150316/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Submarine Cable Map

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Tesla’s Elon Musk Says Autonomous Driving Not All That Hard to Achieve

http://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-elon-musk-says-autonomous-driving-not-all-that-hard-to-achieve-1426624848

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 97 comments

Network theory suggests consciousness is global in the brain

http://www.kurzweilai.net/etwork-theory-suggests-consciousness-is-global-in-the-brain

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

Leap: Your daily commute redesigned

http://rideleap.com

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 77 comments

Y Combinator partners tell MIT students to steer clear of big-name companies

http://tech.mit.edu/V135/N7/startup.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: WIP C compiler in Go, inspired by 8cc

https://github.com/andrewchambers/cc

11 years ago

★ 277 Go MIT
60 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: JedLang, my first attempt at a language

https://github.com/incrediblesound/JedLang

11 years ago

★ 21 JavaScript
59 upvotes – 8 comments

Andrew S. Tanenbaum's FAQ

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 40 comments

What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like

http://firstround.com/review/this-is-what-impactful-engineering-leadership-looks-like/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

In-Memory Computing at Scale: When to Choose and How to Effectively Use JEMalloc

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/17/in-memory-computing-at-aerospike-scale-when-to-choose-and-ho.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Geodesic Asteroids: Classic arcade game gets correct physics

http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

What Cockroaches with Backpacks Can Do

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/03/16/393403190/what-cockroaches-with-backpacks-can-do-ah-mazing?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150316

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

Telehack – Relive the usenet/arpa culture from the 80's

http://telehack.com

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

The Smartphone as Application Server

http://vijayan.ca/blog/2015/03/17/the-smartphone-as-application-server/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Women-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500

http://fortune.com/2015/03/03/women-led-companies-perform-three-times-better-than-the-sp-500/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

SuPPort: Evented Python servers

https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2015/03/17/introducing-support/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Please copy and paste the text of the error

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/please_please_please/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

Databricks Scala Style Guide

https://github.com/databricks/scala-style-guide

11 years ago

★ 2.7k
49 upvotes – 29 comments
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