top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-18

Why Spotify Pays So Little

http://lit.vulf.de/spotify-so-little/

11 years ago

613 upvotes – 295 comments

MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/03/18/msbuild-engine-is-now-open-source-on-github.aspx

11 years ago

520 upvotes – 173 comments

The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/maxis-is-dead-but-this-game-is-better-than-simcity

11 years ago

426 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization

http://riccardoscalco.github.io/textures/

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 61 comments

YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin

http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness/

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 128 comments

The myopia boom

http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 100 comments

NSF announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=134478&org=NSF

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 29 comments

Macbook screen coating issues

http://staingate.org

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 180 comments

Planets in the Fourth Dimension

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/planets_in_the_4th_dimension/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 53 comments

New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-for-rapid.html?m=1

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 62 comments

Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

https://gyrosco.pe/

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 115 comments

I Hate the News (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 187 comments

Apple iOS Hardware Assisted Screenlock Bruteforce

http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock.html

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 101 comments

Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225960

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 196 comments

Five Years’ Time

https://medium.com/@gkoberger/five-years-time-6a6ae1157a66

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 47 comments

AeroFS is now free up to 30 users

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/aerofs-is-now-free-up-to-30-users/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 135 comments

We Buy Broken Gold

http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 194 comments

Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter

http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Warren-Buffett-Just-Wrote-His-Best-Annual-Letter-Ever

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Hacker Monthly will publish its final issue 12 months from now

http://blog.hackermonthly.com/final-issue.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 74 comments

The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now?

http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 100 comments

Analysis of DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture

http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/17-to-1-reproductive-success

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 88 comments

The Dark Web’s Top Drug Market, Evolution, Just Vanished

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/evolution-disappeared-bitcoin-scam-dark-web/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 108 comments

Evidence for nuclear explosions on Mars [pdf]

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2660.pdf

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 108 comments

Dale – A GC-less S-expression system programming language

https://github.com/tomhrr/dale

11 years ago

★ 1k C++ BSD-3-Clause
123 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

http://fasterstat.com

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota)

https://medium.com/re-form/where-the-real-skyscrapers-are-hint-north-dakota-76b33694c99e

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31852032?

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 19 comments

Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996)

http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 80 comments

GXUI – An experimental Go cross-platform UI library

https://github.com/google/gxui?hn

11 years ago

★ 4.4k Go BSD-3-Clause
106 upvotes – 30 comments

ES6 RC3 released

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts#march_17_2015_rev_36_release_candidate_3

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Breastfeeding 'linked to higher IQ'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31925449

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 91 comments

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Geometry Shaders Are Slow (Unless You’re Intel)

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=667

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

German court issues nationwide ban on Uber driving services

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/uber-germany-ban-idUSFWN0WJ04W20150318

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 174 comments

OpenSSH 6.8 released

http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2015-March/000120.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Hardware Designs Should Be Free. Here’s How to Do It

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/richard-stallman-how-to-make-hardware-designs-free/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-microsoft-china-idUSKBN0ME06A20150318

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

When your child speaks a language you don’t

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/03/18/when-your-child-speaks-a-language-you-dont/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 87 comments

Perfect Hashes and faster than memcmp

http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2014/08/perfect-hashes-and-faster-than-memcmp.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07373#

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

Cleaning up software older than me

http://blog.anthrobsd.net/043.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Introducing Sense – A Next-Generation Platform for Data Science

http://blog.sense.io/introducing-sense-a-platform-for-data-science/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

The Power of C++11 in CUDA 7

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/power-cpp11-cuda-7/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 0 comments

Binomial Heap in OCaml

http://typeocaml.com/2015/03/17/binomial-heap/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Some doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone

http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2015/03/some-doubts-about-gpl-licensing-and-bq.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Pearson Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/pearson-under-fire-for-monitoring-students-twitter-posts/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Privacy&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Silicon Valley doesn't create jobs; it's wiping out middle-class jobs

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/opinions/wheeler-silicon-valley-jobs/index.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

Bitbucket Snippets for teams are here

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/03/18/snippets-for-teams-are-here-with-a-rich-set-of-apis/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Gift of the Moon, Bane of the Spanish: The Story of Yerba Mate

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/17/393355841/tea-tuesdays-south-america-runs-on-yerba-mate?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150318

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments

Enabling KVM Virtualization for Raspberry Pi 2

http://blog.flexvdi.es/?p=139

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Will the U.S. Senate Allow Big Media to Hold Blind People for Ransom?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/will-us-senate-hold-blind-people-ransom-big-media

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013)

http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

Erik Naggum, RIP (2009)

http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2009/06/24/erik_naggum_rip

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Leap Buses Are Hitting SF Streets This Week

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/17/leap-buses

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 81 comments

Improving Go's 'container/list'

https://idea.popcount.org/2014-02-28-improving-containerlist/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians (1997)

http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

Psychology of ‘no': Vancouver transit vote shows why good decisions are hard

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/13/the-psychology-of-no-vancouver-residents-poised-to-make-a-decision-that-will-corrode-their-happiness/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 84 comments
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