top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-21

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/20/394340722/john-urschel-ravens-offensive-lineman-publishes-math-paper

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 124 comments

Goat Simulator Post Mortem

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ArminIbrisagic/20150220/236427/Goat_Simulator_Post_Mortem.php

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 85 comments

AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/19/dont-let-att-mislead-you-about-its-29-privacy-fee/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 67 comments

12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2015/03/12-minute-mandelbrot-fractals-on-50.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

DemocracyOS

http://democracyos.org

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: Do you take nootropics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242379

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 219 comments

Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242217

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 170 comments

The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps (2014)

http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/14-the-mapmakers-mystery

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 13 comments

The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35

http://www.jqpublicblog.com/the-little-fighter-that-couldnt-moral-hazard-and-the-f-35/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 231 comments

The Terrible Technical Interview

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/the-terrible-technical-interview/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 231 comments

The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca

https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

Animated vector map

http://tangrams.github.io/tangram-docs-assets/?procedural/tronish.yaml#16/40.7123/-74.0044

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (2009)

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/10/21/are-pointers-and-arrays-equivalent-in-c

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot

http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/03/21/no-love-lost-microsoft-tries-block-linux-windows-machines/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 77 comments

Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds

https://github.com/AtnNn/rethinkdb-stream

11 years ago

★ 139 Python
107 upvotes – 17 comments

A General Theory of Reactivity

https://github.com/kriskowal/gtor

11 years ago

★ 3k JavaScript MIT
103 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: RapGenius for code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9244403

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Rainwater Harvesting to Replenish Underground Water in Rajasthan, India

http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/india-rajasthan-rainwater-harvest-restoration-groundwater-johad.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 6 comments

Sabbath mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 168 comments

BitTorrent client package and utilities in Go

https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

11 years ago

★ 6k Go MPL-2.0
90 upvotes – 14 comments

Mode X

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

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/researchers-uncover-way-hack-bios-undermine-secure-operating-systems/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

The Need for Care with “Thoughtcrime”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/need-care-thoughtcrime

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

How I got a valid SSL certificate for my ISP's main domain

https://raymii.org/s/blog/How_I_got_a_valid_SSL_certificate_for_my_ISPs_main_website.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Good books on debugging?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242384

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Android 5.1 Fixes a Wi-Fi Annoyance

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/google-android-broken-wifi/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Monoprice drops the price of a dual extrusion 3D printer to $700

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=11614

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Skills, Not Diplomas

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/20/platzi/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/why-health-care-tech-is-still-so-bad.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 60 comments

The Underhanded C Contest: Weak Encryption (2007)

http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=16

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Do you meditate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9244291

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Frankenimage – Reconstructing images with pieces from an image database

http://gimlids.github.io/frankenimage/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required

http://firesize.com/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Funds Run by Robots Now Account for $400B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-16/smart-beta-etfs-attract-billions-with-critics-blaming-dumb-money

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: How do I become a faster programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242245

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 65 comments

ZX Spectrum and loaders, part 1

http://www.uelectronics.info/2015/03/21/zx-spectrum-and-loaders-part-one/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

How PARC Saved Xerox

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2015/03/21/how-parc-saved-xerox/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments
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