top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-25

Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/michael-stonebraker-wins-turing-award-0325

11 years ago

528 upvotes – 74 comments

“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”

http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html

11 years ago

516 upvotes – 285 comments

Vim is moving to GitHub

https://github.com/vim/vim

11 years ago

★ 40.2k Vim Script Vim
462 upvotes – 179 comments

The User Is Drunk

http://theuserisdrunk.com/

11 years ago

448 upvotes – 210 comments

The Shut-In Economy

https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816

11 years ago

447 upvotes – 337 comments

X86 is a high-level language

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-language.html#.VRLn95PF_XE

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 118 comments

A significant amount of programming is done by superstition

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ProgrammingViaSuperstition

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 208 comments

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/03/25/node-js-tools-1-0-for-visual-studio.aspx

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 123 comments

iOS Code Samples

http://ioscodesamples.com/index.html

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 53 comments

House Introduces Bill to Repeal the Patriot Act

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/house-introduces-bill-repeal-patriot-act

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 46 comments

Kronos Haskell

http://www.kronosnotebook.com/haskell

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 81 comments

Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

https://www.recurse.com/blog/77-hacker-school-is-now-the-recurse-center

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 103 comments

How the New York Times keeps tragedies ad-free

http://parkerhiggins.net/2015/03/new-york-times-keeps-tragedies-ad-free/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 200 comments

The Racket Manifesto

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Tmp/manifesto/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 49 comments

ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS

http://componentkit.org

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 54 comments

Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/03/25/interview-with-gos-russ-cox-and-sameer-ajmani/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 107 comments

Intent to Implement: Pointer Events in Chrome

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/ODWmcKNQl0I

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

“Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”

http://nomad.so/2015/03/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-to-intelligent-programmers/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe

https://fiddle.md/b836w36wh2h8mv3fj23t8r

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

Destroy the soil and we all starve

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/treating-soil-like-dirt-fatal-mistake-human-life

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery

http://bravenewgeek.com/you-cannot-have-exactly-once-delivery/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 55 comments

Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/introducing-messenger-platform-and-businesses-on-messenger/?__mref=message_bubble

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/y-combinator-demos/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

IceWarp and Collabora Are Working on LibreOffice Online Document Editing

https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/icewarp-and-collabora-are-working-on-libreoffice-online-document-editing-an-open-source-alternative-to-google-apps-office-365/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mars-nitrogen/index.html?linkId=13093784#.VRGSKfnF-Ag

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Slack Chats

http://www.slackchats.com/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 68 comments

Sam Altman: Why Hardware Could Yield the Next $10B Startups

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/25/sam-altman-why-hardware-could-yield-the-next-10-billion-startups/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 82 comments

F*dging up a Racket

https://www.hashcollision.org/brainfudge/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

How Super Angel Chris Sacca Burned Bridges and Crafted the Best Seed Portfolio

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/03/25/how-venture-cowboy-chris-sacca-made-billions/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Mad Mike, the homeless blogger who became a millionaire overnight

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/24/mad-mike-homeless-blogger-millionaire

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

A unikernel experiment: A VM for every URL

http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/03/25/mirageos-vm-per-url-experiment/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (2005)

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.0/2022.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9104/asus-zenbook-ux305-review

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 78 comments

Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (2012)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/03/28/148915022/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places (2014)

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/17/legendary-lands-umberto-eco/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150325-did-neurons-evolve-twice/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Your Netflix Traffic Is Slow and Why the FCC Won’t Necessarily Make It Fast

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/why-your-netflix-traffic-is-slow-and-why-the-open-internet-order-wont-necessarily-make-it-faster/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 110 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 14.1

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/03/intellij-idea-14-1-is-here/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Seldon – Serves predictions via a REST API

https://github.com/SeldonIO/seldon-server

11 years ago

★ 1.4k Java Apache-2.0
70 upvotes – 26 comments

Basic income: the water room analogy

http://www.scottsantens.com/the-water-room-analogy-why-giving-basic-income-to-even-the-richest-makes-sense

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 113 comments

Legendary Hackers (2010)

http://www.autistici.org/rez/hackers.php

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Alloy: A Language and Tool for Relational Models

http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 2 comments

Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/25/scientists-have-figured-out-a-simple-way-to-cook-rice-that-dramatically-cuts-the-calories/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 80 comments

The Grammar of Data Science

http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/17/grammar-of-data-science/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Ideal Hash Trees (2001) [pdf]

http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees.pdf?version=1

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

For Pearson, Common Core Is Private Profit

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/for-pearson-common-core-is-private-profit.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

The odd life of an underground orchid

http://earthsky.org/earth/the-odd-life-of-an-underground-orchid

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Bacteria kill us by accident (2014)

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/bacteria-kill-us-by-accident/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

The PhD Factory (2011)

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Netflix, Amazon and Hulu No Longer Find Themselves Upstarts in Online Streaming

http://nytimes.com/2015/03/25/business/media/netflix-amazon-and-hulu-no-longer-find-themselves-tvs-upstarts.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

ZeroDB – A Peek Under the Hood

http://blog.zerodb.io/a-peek-under-the-hood/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 45 comments

'Virtual nose' may reduce simulator sickness

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q1/virtual-nose-may-reduce-simulator-sickness-in-video-games.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

JSON in URLs

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/03/json-in-urls/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Fast Randomized SVD (2014)

https://research.facebook.com/blog/294071574113354/fast-randomized-svd

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Major Insurers to Strike Deal to Support Ride-Sharing

http://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/right-street/2015/03/24/361971.htm

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Delphi's self-driving car

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/covered-wagon-upgraded-delphi-will-go-cross-country-in-a-self-driving-car/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 39 comments

NIMBYs in the twenty-first century

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-inequality?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/nimbysinthetwentyfirstcentury

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 60 comments

Researchers Demonstrate Heat and Sound Are Magnetic

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/for-first-time-reseachers-demonstrate-heat-and-sound-are-magnetic

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9263715

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 114 comments

Deprecating the DNS ANY meta-query type

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-dns-any-meta-query-type

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments

Who (Specifically) Is Behind the N.S.A. Mass Surveillance Program? [pdf]

http://cryptome.org/2015/03/NSA_surveillance_program.pdf

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

InfluxDB has taken its open-source business to Silicon Valley

http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2015/03/25/influxdb-paul-dix-moves-to-silicon-valley/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/google-makes-most-of-close-ties-to-white-house-1427242076-lMyQjAxMTA1NTIzNDUyNTQyWj

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

D 2.067 released

http://dlang.org/changelog.html?2.067

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons

https://medium.com/@cjdew/post-capitalism-rise-of-the-collaborative-commons-62b0160a7048

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 55 comments
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