top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-26

React Native is now open source

https://github.com/facebook/react-native

11 years ago

★ 125.7k C++ MIT
1039 upvotes – 287 comments

The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license

https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3

11 years ago

★ 12.1k C++
304 upvotes – 66 comments

Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271679

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 127 comments

Git from the inside out

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 96 comments

How I taught my dog to text me selfies

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/03/how-my-dog-sends-selfies.html

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/amazon-goes-after-dropbox-google-microsoft-with-unlimited-cloud-drive-storage/

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 247 comments

One Professional Russian Troll Tells All

http://www.rferl.mobi/a/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-trolls/26919999.html

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 174 comments

NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (1996)

http://marc.info/?l=best-of-security&m=96843702620513&w=2

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 85 comments

My Interviews with Airbnb, Dropbox, Posterous, Reddit, Weebly and Wufoo

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/my-interviews-with-airbnb-dropbox-posterous-reddit-weebly-and-wufoo-circa-2010

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)

http://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 164 comments

Periscope by Twitter

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id972909677

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 138 comments

It’s Comcastic, Or: I Accidentally Bought a House Without Cable

http://www.loomcom.com/blog/2015/02/22/its-comcastic-or-i-accidentally-bought-a-house-without-internet/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 134 comments

Google sends reporter a GIF instead of a 'no comment'

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/google-sends-reporter-gif-instead-no-comment/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269221

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 183 comments

Exchangel – Fantasy Angel Investing

http://exchangel.co

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: SSL Decoder – An open-source alternative for the SSL Labs server test

https://tls.so

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32063587

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 271 comments

What Would You Recommend to a Bright 14 Year Old?

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WhatWouldYouRecommendToABright14YearOld.html?HN_20150326

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 205 comments

Things you should know about PHP 7

https://pages.zend.com/TY-Infographic.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 118 comments

Dart 1.9

http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-19-release-youve-been-await-ing-for.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 55 comments

The Four Month Bug: JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses

http://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 30 comments

Worldwide DNS Performance

http://dnsperf.com/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

Bug or Feature? Unintentionally Intentional Behaviors

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/random.shtml

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 20 comments

RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in bankruptcy auction

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2901028/radioshack-puts-customers-personal-data-up-for-sale-in-bankruptcy-auction.html?

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming

http://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

GitHub unveils its Licenses API

http://lwn.net/Articles/636261/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/effs-yellow-dots-mystery-instructables

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

A Strong Welfare State Produces More Entrepreneurs

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/welfare-makes-america-more-entrepreneurial/388598/?single_page=true

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 122 comments

An introduction to reactive programming

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/an-introduction-to-reactive-programming

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 55 comments

EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

http://news.eurodns.com/eurodns-introduces-free-ssl-certificates-to-customers/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

PyPy 2.5.1 released

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/03/pypy-251-released.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

The Deadly Global War for Sand

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Too little is known about whether money spent on higher education is worth it

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21647285-more-and-more-money-being-spent-higher-education-too-little-known-about-whether-it

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Mentor startups in Gaza

http://mentor4gazaskygeeks.strikingly.com/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

Introducing Fresco: a new image library for Android

https://code.facebook.com/posts/366199913563917/introducing-fresco-a-new-image-library-for-android/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

MyTemp.email – Temporary Disposable Email

https://mytemp.email/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 61 comments

Why English sucks as the language for international and scientific communication

http://www.madore.org/~david/weblog/d.2015-03-20.2284.html#d.2015-03-20.2284

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 54 comments

Observing spy satellites using consumer hardware

http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Be wary of one-time pads and other crypto unicorns

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jbonneau/be-wary-of-one-time-pads-and-other-crypto-unicorns/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

Toxoplasma Could Manipulate Our Behavior

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-parasite-could-manipulate-our-behavior/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers

http://recode.net/2015/03/26/why-kevin-mitnick-the-worlds-most-notorious-hacker-is-still-breaking-into-computers/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

Lyft Profiles

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/lyft-adds-profiles-to-make-ride-sharing-more-personalized/?fb_ref=Default&_r=0

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

Sources: Magic Is Raising $12M from Sequoia at a $40M Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/sources-magic-is-raising-12m-from-sequoia-at-a-40m-valuation/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 82 comments

A three rotor Enigma machine wrist watch

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2015/03/24/a-three-rotor-enigma-machine-wrist-watch

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

DoorDash Raises $40M, Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

http://blog.doordash.com/post/114687483313/doordash-raises-40m-led-by-kleiner-perkins

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook's Yann LeCunn Discusses Digital Companions and AI

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/facebooks-yann-lecun-discusses-digital-companions-and-artificial-intelligence/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Security of Infrastructure Secrets

https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2013/11/09/security-of-infrastructure-secrets/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

In Silicon Valley, stories about failure are a form of social currency

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-era-of-the-fumblebrag-e5ceddaa77dc

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

Fiber-Famished Gut Microbes Linked to Poor Health

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fiber-famished-gut-microbes-linked-to-poor-health1/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Matthew Crawford and How to Survive Brain-Eating Distractions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/books/matthew-crawford-and-how-to-survive-brain-eating-distractions.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Can you make “big money” as an employee in software?

http://thinkfaster.co/2015/03/can-you-make-big-money-in-software

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: PencilCase – an iOS app studio that transforms designs into apps

http://www.pencilcase.io/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 29 comments

Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century? (2014)

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/532796/who-owns-the-biggest-biotech-discovery-of-the-century/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 44 comments

A terabyte of harsh noise, stored on 233 DVDs

http://www.jliat.com/n1tb/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments
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