top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-19

We are under attack

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/we-are-under-attack

11 years ago

839 upvotes – 263 comments

The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland

http://www.visir.is/the-pirate-party-is-now-measured-as-the-biggest-party-in-iceland/article/2015150318848

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 120 comments

New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales

http://blog.caranddriver.com/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-legalizes-tesla-direct-sales/#.

11 years ago

430 upvotes – 218 comments

Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/business/elon-musk-says-self-driving-tesla-cars-will-be-in-the-us-by-summer.html

11 years ago

365 upvotes – 244 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt

11 years ago

359 upvotes – 104 comments

The US government's web traffic

https://analytics.usa.gov

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 78 comments

The Windows Driver Frameworks are on GitHub

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_hardware_and_driver_developer_blog/archive/2015/03/18/windows-driver-frameworks-source-on-github.aspx

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 79 comments

Reminder: Oh, Won't You Please Shut Up? (2011)

https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-please-shut-up/

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 209 comments

Massimo Banzi: Fighting for Arduino

http://makezine.com/2015/03/19/massimo-banzi-fighting-for-arduino/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 58 comments

A Survival Guide for the Small Mail Server

http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/719/a-survival-guide-for-the-small-mail-server

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 81 comments

US Threatened Germany Over Snowden, Vice Chancellor Says

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/19/us-threatened-germany-snowden-vice-chancellor-says/

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 113 comments

Artoo: Ruby on Robots

http://artoo.io/

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 56 comments

A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC

http://yvonne.posthaven.com/a-not-so-obvious-reason-to-apply-to-yc

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 33 comments

Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang

https://medium.com/@jlouis666/solving-the-go-challenge-1-in-erlang-8b1e0a0a5044

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231386

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 83 comments

How we built analytics.usa.gov

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

The Rent Hypothesis

http://esoltas.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-rent-hypothesis.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 139 comments

SpaceX's New Spin on Falcon 9

http://aviationweek.com/blog/spacexs-new-spin-falcon-9

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 82 comments

Dear Data

http://www.dear-data.com/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-supports-94/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 26 comments

Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530132.400-video-games-beat-interviews-to-recruit-the-very-best.html?utm_content=bufferab5af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.VQr6gRDF8nS

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 122 comments

The Ugliest Sign in America

https://medium.com/matter/thing-piece-the-ugliest-sign-in-america-5f53652ba7b

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 82 comments

Where's the Generic Insulin?

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-generic-insulin

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 83 comments

Turning Japanese: Coping with stasis

http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-three/turning-japanese-coping-with-stagnation.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-of-google-1426793274

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database

http://blog.zerodb.io/hello-world-zerodb-here/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

Mozilla MASCHE – Memory Forensic Library

https://github.com/mozilla/masche

11 years ago

★ 384 Go MPL-2.0
99 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Egg Freezing Is an Impossible Choice

http://prime.nautil.us/issue/22/slow/why-egg-freezing-is-an-impossible-choice

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 100 comments

We Actually Built a Remote Team, and It Rocks

https://medium.com/@davidrupp/we-actually-built-a-remote-team-and-it-rocks-a4b839cf4e05

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

My first experience at working from home

http://blog.jobbox.io/first-experience-working-from-home/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 86 comments

Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations

http://ioam.github.io/holoviews/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Things I Learned in Years of Freelancing

http://www.christopherhawkins.com/2015/03/12-things-learned-12-years-freelancing/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/19/burmas-capital-naypyidaw-post-apocalypse-suburbia-highways-wifi

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-16-tb-and-20000-iops-elastic-block-store-ebs-volumes/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Facebook's Engineering Director Is Headed to the White House

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/exclusive-facebook-engineering-director-is-headed-114060505054.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

PostgreSQL Data Migration Tips

http://engineering.tilt.com/7-postgresql-data-migration-hacks/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Amazon’s carbon uptake declines as trees die faster

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_442151_en.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Proving Things About Biology with F#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knnK-llu_RE

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

An analytics primer for developers

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/03/an-analytics-primer-for-developers/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 0 comments

Atomic Weapons: The C++ Memory Model and Modern Hardware

http://herbsutter.com/2013/02/11/atomic-weapons-the-c-memory-model-and-modern-hardware/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Why care about functional programming? Part 1: Immutability

http://miles.no/blogg/why-care-about-functional-programming-part-1-immutability

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Sirius – Open Source Siri/Cortana Alternative for Linux

http://clarity-lab.org/claritube/introducing-sirius/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

APNG support lands in WebKit

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17022

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Wallaby.js – An intelligent test runner that continuously runs your tests

http://wallabyjs.com/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

Death Redesigned

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-04-05/death-redesigned

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital App Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/yc-backed-akido-labs-provides-a-standardized-api-layer-for-hospital-app-developers

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet [pdf]

http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/cheat.pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Installing Windows 8 after 8 years of Linux

http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/195d953e-df20-44b6-9eaa-3e5bd5754a75

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 98 comments

Bill Gates warns on future disease epidemic

http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-31956344

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

“Reasons you shouldn't join us: if you're looking for work-life balance.”

https://twitter.com/passy/status/578541484464553984

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 68 comments

Scientists Invent New Way to Control Light

http://today.ucf.edu/scientists-invent-new-way-control-light-critical-next-gen-super-computing/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Map of Bell Systems Telephone Network (1910)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/03/16/history_of_the_american_telephone_system_map_of_bell_coverage_in_1910.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Stripe Customer Info inside Gmail

https://github.com/InboxSDK/stripe-for-gmail

11 years ago

★ 161 JavaScript Unlicense
56 upvotes – 13 comments

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for building big applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231200

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 60 comments

Kryptnostic lets you search fully encrypted data in the cloud

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/kryptnostic

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Using naive Bayes to predict movie review sentiment

http://blog.dataquest.io/blog/naive-bayes-movies/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

The growing size of firms may help to explain rising inequality

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21646266-growing-size-firms-may-help-explain-rising-inequality-bigger

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 47 comments

The Village that fell asleep: mystery illness that perplexes Kazakh scientists

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/kazakhstan-sleeping-village-mystery

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Google Cloud Logging

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/leverage-the-power-of-log-data-to-drive-operational-and-business-decisions-through-Google-Cloud-Logging.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Uber offices raided in Paris by French police in 'car-pooling' controversy

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/uber-offices-raided-in-paris

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 65 comments

Picat – A new logic-based programming language

http://picat-lang.org/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP

https://github.com/widmogrod/php-functional

11 years ago

★ 369 PHP MIT
46 upvotes – 9 comments

Making Phil Libin style cohort visualizations available to everyone

https://www.airpair.com/keen-io/posts/making-phil-libin-style-cohort-visualizations-available-to-everyone

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB

http://news.dice.com/2015/03/19/why-i-choose-postgresql-over-mysqlmariadb/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments
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