top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-24

Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone

http://bazel.io/

11 years ago

625 upvotes – 174 comments

Fear of Apple

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple

11 years ago

558 upvotes – 266 comments

Apple Acquires FoundationDB

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb

11 years ago

483 upvotes – 376 comments

Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202858

11 years ago

429 upvotes – 168 comments

A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React

https://github.com/mikechau/react-primer-draft

11 years ago

★ 3.6k
352 upvotes – 142 comments

Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/pigeon-ly

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 76 comments

We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-youve-been-ars-acquires-4-6m-license-plate-scans-from-the-cops/

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 137 comments

Myths of Enterprise Python

https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/12/10/10-myths-of-enterprise-python/

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 250 comments

JavaScript's world domination

https://medium.com/@slsoftworks/javascript-world-domination-af9ca2ee5070

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 187 comments

Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150324-the-hidden-tricks-of-persuasion

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 152 comments

Bubble talk

http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 202 comments

China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/24/how-china-used-more-cement-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-did-in-the-entire-20th-century/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 151 comments

Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-build-3080

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 184 comments

Google warns of unauthorized TLS certificates trusted by almost all OSes

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/google-warns-of-unauthorized-tls-certificates-trusted-by-almost-all-oses/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Fiber Is Coming to Salt Lake City

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/google-fiber-is-coming-to-salt-lake-city.html

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 102 comments

Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”

https://www.joyent.com/blog/triton-docker-and-the-best-of-all-worlds

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 100 comments

httpdiff – diff responses to two HTTP/HTTPS requests

https://github.com/jgrahamc/httpdiff

11 years ago

★ 2k Go GPL-2.0
197 upvotes – 39 comments

Indian Supreme Court Judgement on Freedom of Speech [pdf]

http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/FileServer/2015-03-24_1427183283.pdf

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 54 comments

Pencil code

http://pencilcode.net/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 28 comments

How doctors choose to die (2012)

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-choose-die

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

LibOS – A library operating system for Linux

https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

After Jobs Dry Up, What Then?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/world/europe/after-jobs-dry-up-what-then.html?_r=0

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 216 comments

Proving false in Coq using an implementation bug

https://github.com/clarus/falso

11 years ago

★ 105 Coq MIT
125 upvotes – 61 comments

Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representations/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 9 comments

The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

$1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective Junk Science

http://www.allgov.com/news/where-is-the-money-going/1-billion-dollar-tsa-behavioral-screening-program-slammed-as-ineffective-junk-science-150323?news=856031

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

Purple – Heroku UI Kit

http://purple.herokuapp.com/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

Companies That Presented at Y Combinator Demo Day 1

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/here-are-the-companies-that-presented-at-y-combinator-demo-day-day-1/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

I Will Forever Remain Faithful (2014)

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/171-i-will-forever-remain-faithful

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 3 comments

‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar Worker

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/03/24/i-would-prefer-not-to-the-origins-of-the-white-collar-worker/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Fighting fires with sound frequencies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/when-it-comes-to-putting-out-fire-gmu-students-show-its-all-about-that-bass/2015/03/22/47a7f8e8-cf1a-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

It'll Never Work (1997)

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 79 comments

Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-mathematicians-year-old-problem.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

Landing the Nostromo (1981)

https://archive.org/stream/creativecomputing-1981-06/Creative_Computing_v07_n06_1981_June?ui=embed#page/n51/mode/2up

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/23/global-warming-is-now-slowing-down-the-circulation-of-the-oceans-with-potentially-dire-consequences/?tid=rssfeed

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds

http://cdixon.org/2015/03/24/improbable-enabling-the-development-of-large-scale-simulated-worlds/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)

https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

What do you do after an investor says yes?

http://blog.sendhub.com/post/114498885892/what-do-you-do-after-an-investor-says-yes

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

How to use a Google Spreadsheet as a database

https://api.blockspring.com/blog/google-spreadsheet-as-database

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 72 comments

How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-private-secure-free-vpn-on-the-amazon-aws-cloud-in-10-minutes/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Classp: a “classier” way to parse

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/classp-classier-way-to-parse.html?m=0

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-region-replication-for-amazon-s3/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Contributing to Servo

http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/03/24/contributing-to-servo.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Chinese Ghost Cities That Came Alive

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/koos-jansen/guest-post-5-chinese-ghost-cities-came-alive/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

ECMAScript 6 compatibility table

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Can education change Japan's 'depressed' generation?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32013613

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Getting an A+ on the SSL Labs test in Node.js and Io.js

https://certsimple.com/blog/a-plus-node-js-ssl

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

How to Ask Questions the Smart Way

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Brisket – A new single-page application framework

http://www.bloomberg.com/company/2015-03-24/bloomberg-weve-made-brisket-can-make-anything/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

Tech Bubble? Maybe, Maybe Not

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/tech-bubble-maybe-maybe-not/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Why do Americans not drive diesels?

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20130109-why-do-americans-not-buy-diesels

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 176 comments

Hindley-Milner in Clojure

http://www.lispcast.com/Hindley-Milner-in-Clojure

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

What is an 83(b) election? (2008)

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2008/02/15/what-is-an-83b-election/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Microsoft’s Windows 10 will support up to 8K displays

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/201861-early-adopter-microsofts-windows-10-will-support-up-to-8k-displays

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 63 comments

Realm (YC S11) Announces $20M Series B, 100M Devices After 9 Months

http://realm.io/news/9-months/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Performance-focused pure CSS loading animations

http://connoratherton.com/loaders

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments
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