top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-20

Replacing Photoshop with NSString

http://cocoamine.net/blog/2015/03/20/replacing-photoshop-with-nsstring/

11 years ago

680 upvotes – 126 comments

I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238839

11 years ago

634 upvotes – 689 comments

All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

https://threatpost.com/all-major-browsers-fall-at-pwn2own-day-2/111731

11 years ago

488 upvotes – 270 comments

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

http://johnathanward.com/make-money-online-failure/

11 years ago

480 upvotes – 168 comments

Curl, 17 years old today

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/20/curl-17-years-old-today/

11 years ago

420 upvotes – 95 comments

Ever wondered how device drivers are reverse engineered?

http://www.linuxvoice.com/drive-it-yourself-usb-car-6

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?

http://gizmodo.com/why-does-the-international-space-station-have-such-a-we-1692193163

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 111 comments

Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/twenty-four-million-wikipedia-users-cant-be-wrong-important-allies-join-fight

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 21 comments

HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails

http://lostinjit.blogspot.com/2015/03/hippyvm-goes-to-y-combinator-and-fails.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 109 comments

HTML6 proposal for single-page apps without JavaScript

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2015Mar/0071.html

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 166 comments

Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aa2-HtUglQrAps31s4LdTPVsiFb1BxhyjZolxeezzcI/edit

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 25 comments

Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]

http://devio.us/~bcallah/rcos2015.pdf

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 43 comments

Ten Years of Kubuntu

http://lwn.net/Articles/635880/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 57 comments

Start Using Landsat on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/start-using-landsat-on-aws/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 14 comments

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

https://intelligence.org/2015/03/12/rationality-ai-zombies/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 139 comments

Kimiko Ishizaka and MuseScore Team Release Open Well-Tempered Clavier

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/kimiko-ishizaka-and-musescore-team-release-open-well-tempered-clavier

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

VPS Compare – compare worldwide VPS servers

http://vpscomp.com

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 85 comments

On open-sourcing existing code

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-03-19-cant-even-throw-code-across-the-wall/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

Generate Your Changelog From GitHub Issues

https://github.com/skywinder/github-changelog-generator

11 years ago

★ 74 MIT
88 upvotes – 37 comments

Alzheimer’s Drug Sharply Slowed Cognitive Decline

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/business/alzheimers-drug-trial-shows-cognitive-decline-sharply-slowed.html?_r=0

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Elton McDonald built a tunnel

http://www.macleans.ca/society/elton-mcdonald-and-the-incredible-true-story-behind-the-toronto-mystery-tunnel/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

How cyclists, not drivers, first fought to pave US roads

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/8253035/roads-cyclists-cars-history

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

RethinkDB 2.0 release candidate

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.0-release-candidate/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Optimizing performance on low-end Android devices

http://blog.echolocker.com/performance

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/R-D/Tiny-Farms-Edible-insects-will-be-be-mainstream-in-future

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 110 comments

Development of Doom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Ideas for Improving Ruby During Google Summer of Code 2015

https://github.com/rubygsoc/rubygsoc/wiki/Ideas-List

11 years ago

★ 107
73 upvotes – 10 comments

OCaml: Polymorphism

http://haifengl.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/ocaml-polymorphism/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 42 comments

Preprocessor Abuse and Optional Parentheses

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-03-20-preprocessor-abuse-and-optional-parentheses.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

Latin America Is Quitting Smoking, and Africa Is Taking It Up

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/latin-america-is-quitting-smoking-and-africa-is-taking-it-up/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

Water crisis coming in 15 years unless the world acts now, UN report warns

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/water-crisis-coming-in-15-years-unless-the-world-acts-now-un-urges/article23551722/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 61 comments

Sirum (YC W15) Recycles Unused Medicines to Save Money and Lives

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/recycling-unused-medicines-to-save-money-and-lives/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Dylib hijacking on OS X

https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2015/03/vb201503-dylib-hijacking

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter

http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-an-open-letter/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

Did Disney's The Lion King Rip Off an Old Japanese TV Series? (1999)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1378/did-disneys-em-the-lion-king-em-rip-off-an-old-japanese-tv-series

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 57 comments

Descent: Underground

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/descendentstudios/descent-underground

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

The forgotten history of human zoos

http://www.the-open-mind.com/deep-racism-the-forgotten-history-of-human-zoos-1/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 29 comments

What happens when you page align everything

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2015/03/cache-line-aliasing-2-or-what-happens.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments

India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31960557

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 72 comments

The Coming Ice Age: A true scientific detective story (1958)

http://harpers.org/archive/1958/09/the-coming-ice-age/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

A Friend of the Devil: Inside a Famous Cold War Deception

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/a-friend-of-the-devil

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Lessons learned from implementing Paxos (2012)

http://blog.willportnoy.com/2012/06/lessons-learned-from-paxos.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Running Apache Kafka at Scale

https://engineering.linkedin.com/kafka/running-kafka-scale

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

How Much (Or Little) the Middle Class Makes

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/19/394057221/how-much-or-little-the-middle-class-makes-in-30-u-s-cities

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 62 comments
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