top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-23

Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving

http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/pinterest-employee-taxes/

11 years ago

422 upvotes – 132 comments

Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/images-fool-computer-vision-raise-security-concerns

11 years ago

365 upvotes – 210 comments

Stripe Connect v2

http://stripe.com/connect

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251577

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 96 comments

Free Non-Commercial Renderman

http://renderman.pixar.com/view/non-commercial-renderman

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 75 comments

Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The World

http://carlcheo.com/fascinating-posts-from-tech-founders-who-changed-the-world

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed

https://ilikerabbits.com

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 98 comments

Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub

http://primercss.io/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 86 comments

pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5

http://hlinnaka.iki.fi/2015/03/23/pg_rewind-in-postgresql-9-5/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 60 comments

Hacker's guide to Neural Networks

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 61 comments

Learning Vim while playing a game

http://vim-adventures.com/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 71 comments

Amtrak police use of passenger data

http://papersplease.org/wp/2015/03/20/amtrak-lies-about-police-use-of-passenger-data/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 86 comments

Razorpay (YC W15) offers Stripe-style payment experience in India

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/22/razorpay-offers-stripe-style-payments-focused-squarely-on-indian-e-commerce-plays/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 98 comments

F***ing Learn to Code Again (1999)

http://blog.kebby.org/?p=47

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

BYTE Magazine: The C Language (1983)

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYTE_08-08_The_C_Language#page/n47/mode/2up

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 46 comments

'Mountaineer' Is a Must-Read of Soviet Sci-Fi

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/19/392634682/mountaineer-is-a-must-read-of-soviet-sci-fi

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

The I-JSON Message Format

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/03/23/i-json

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)

https://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/28/python-to-scheme-to-assembly-1/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

How to build a Debian package

http://documentation.thebigrede.net/maintainers/howto-build-package.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 16 comments

Manux – A free Linux-compatible OS designed to withstand attacks in userspace

http://www.manux.info/en/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Zigbee light link master key

https://twitter.com/MayaZigBee/status/579723961661022209

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Nes emulator written in go

https://github.com/fogleman/nes

11 years ago

★ 5.6k Go MIT
108 upvotes – 55 comments

Maintaining Digital Certificate Security

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-certificate-security.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 110 comments

The Dangerous Effects of Reading

http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

New DNA construct can set off a “mutagenic chain reaction”

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/new-dna-construct-can-set-off-a-mutagenic-chain-reaction/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Canada's CSE cyberwarfare toolbox revealed

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/communication-security-establishment-s-cyberwarfare-toolbox-revealed-1.3002978

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249913

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure

http://prime.nautil.us/issue/22/slow/how-to-turn-your-dog-off

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-23/see-through-solar-is-tomorrow-s-threat-to-oil

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 68 comments

How to save datetimes for future events

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future_datetimes.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 95 comments

Sources to Find a Remote Job as a Software Developer

http://blog.remoteworknewsletter.com/2015/03/23/best-sources-to-find-a-remote-job-as-a-software-developer/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

Tails 1.3.1 is out

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.3.1/index.en.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Madeon's Adventure Machine

http://madeon.fr/adventuremachine

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248959

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

Rust for Clojurists

https://gist.github.com/oakes/4af1023b6c5162c6f8f0

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

The spy satellite Lacrosse 5 and its “disappearace trick”

http://www.astrophoto.fr/spy_satellites.html#Lacrosse-5

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Mars One Finalist Announces That It's All a Scam

http://www.iflscience.com/space/whats-going-mars-one

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

GitHub Flow Like a Pro with These 13 Git Aliases

http://haacked.com/archive/2014/07/28/github-flow-aliases/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

The Future of Humanity with Elon Musk: Interview by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

http://www.startalkradio.net/show/the-future-of-humanity-with-elon-musk/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Analytics on the Cheap

http://0x74696d.com/posts/analytics-on-the-cheap/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

The Father of the Digital Synthesizer

http://priceonomics.com/the-father-of-the-digital-synthesizer/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Let Over Lambda (2008)

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Non-Obvious Tips for Your YC Application

http://www.tiempoapp.com/blog/3-non-obvious-tips-for-your-yc-application

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Static site generator with web UI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250550

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015

http://www.techiatric.com/latest/2015/3/22/ycombinator-ups-the-ante-with-bumper-biotech-batch

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

Portugal decriminalized drugs a decade ago – what have we learned? (2011)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/17/getting-a-fix

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

The history of barbed wire

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/23/_99_invisible_roman_mars_the_history_of_barbed_wire.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Desertec

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

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong (2013)

http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

High performance services using coroutines

https://medium.com/software-development-2/high-performance-services-using-coroutines-ac8e9f54d727

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82 (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

What Makes an Electric Guitar Sound Like an Electric Guitar

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/what-makes-an-electric-guitar-sound-like-an-electric-guitar/386441/?single_page=true

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenZFS: Reducing ARC Lock Contention

http://blog.delphix.com/prakash/2015/03/23/openzfs-reducing-arc-lock-contention/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

The Good Project Manager

https://teamgantt.com/guide-to-project-management/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

From a Farm in Egypt to Building a YC Computer Vision Startup for Fitness

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/smartspot/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

The new authoritarianism

http://www.voxeu.org/article/new-authoritarianism

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

Confabulation in the humanities

http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/03/21/confabulation-in-the-humanities.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Important Notice About Your Twitch Account

http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/03/important-notice-about-your-twitch-account/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Cstore_fdw: A Columnar Store for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw

11 years ago

★ 1.7k C Apache-2.0
59 upvotes – 11 comments

A 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mDNS

https://github.com/mafintosh/airpaste

11 years ago

★ 830 JavaScript MIT
57 upvotes – 8 comments

USENIX WOOT 2015 Call for Papers

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot15/call-for-papers

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Can Spark Streaming Survive Chaos Monkey?

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/03/can-spark-streaming-survive-chaos-monkey.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Random Numbers in Virtual Machines

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/03/09/red-hat-enterprise-linux-virtual-machines-access-to-random-numbers-made-easy/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

MirageOS Pioneer Projects

https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects

11 years ago

★ 175 HTML ISC
55 upvotes – 14 comments

The Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Port Squatting

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2674602

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Diamonds are Bullshit (2013)

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 75 comments

Introducing OpenBSD's httpd [pdf]

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/httpd-slides-asiabsdcon2015.pdf

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

The Taming of Tech Criticism

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: WakaTime and Slack live demo

https://wakatime.com/slack

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

Neutun- a smartwatch app that tracks seizures

http://neutun.com

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

Announcing Lotus v0.3.0

http://lotusrb.org/blog/2015/03/23/announcing-lotus-030.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments

How computers could change pure mathematics

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/03/computers_proving_mathematical_theorems_how_artificial_intelligence_could.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_top

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 28 comments

A New Kind of Conspicuous Consumption

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stuffocation-the-weird-way-facebook-and-instagram-make-us-happier/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 56 comments
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