top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-29

GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

https://status.github.com/messages?latest

11 years ago

652 upvotes – 334 comments

Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8I6qt_Z0Cg

11 years ago

567 upvotes – 62 comments

How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

https://msol.io/blog/tech/2015/03/10/how-i-doubled-my-internet-speed-with-openwrt/

11 years ago

363 upvotes – 143 comments

A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11424037

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 89 comments

Make This in an Hour

http://makethisinanhour.com/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 100 comments

Inventing Favicon.ico

https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favicon-ico/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 69 comments

TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations' laws

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/26/tpp-leak-states-give-companie.html

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 83 comments

GopherJS

https://github.com/gopherjs/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't the GitHub attack being covered by the news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284688

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 95 comments

I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

http://nacin.com/2015/03/29/us-digital-service/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 116 comments

Messaging apps shouldn't make money – Pavel Durov and Telegram

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/03/features/messaging-apps

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 68 comments

Introduction to Apache Mesos

http://www.antonlindstrom.com/2015/03/29/introduction-to-apache-mesos.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 54 comments

Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 87 comments

My favorite bug: segfaults in Java

https://lukeshu.com/blog/java-segfault.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 76 comments

U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit with Cyberattack

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Racing goes electric: At the track with Formula E, the first e-racing series

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/racing-goes-electric-at-the-track-with-formula-e-the-first-e-racing-series/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 82 comments

Psychedelics and Psychotherapy

http://m.timeline.com/stories/psychedelic-drugs-clinical-use-anxiety-terminally-ill-mdma-ecstasy-molly-lsd-magic-mushrooms

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

Context Free Art

http://www.contextfreeart.org/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

V8worker – Minimal Go binding to V8

https://github.com/ry/v8worker

11 years ago

★ 1.4k C++ MIT
130 upvotes – 24 comments

Paternoster

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

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 72 comments

How a bad RJ45 termination can ruin a cable

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/terrible-terminations.htm

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 68 comments

IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video

https://www.class-central.com/report/why-my-mooc-is-not-built-on-video/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 88 comments

Rosetta Stone for Unix

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Linux kernel memory management, part 1

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/mm/linux-mm-1.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
91 upvotes – 2 comments

Philip Glass Half-Full

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/philip-glass-half-full/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Darpa to re-invent GPS navigation without the use of satellites

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/202111-darpa-to-re-invent-gps-navigation-without-satellites

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

The confusing CAP and ACID wording

http://thislongrun.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-confusing-cap-and-acid-wording.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (2011)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-waldo-with-mathematica?rq=1

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 0 comments

“Platform” risk

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2015/3/14/platform-risk

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments
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