top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-30

Stop using tail -f (mostly)

http://www.brianstorti.com/stop-using-tail/?utm_content=buffer13c97&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

765 upvotes – 207 comments

Choose Boring Technology

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

11 years ago

577 upvotes – 212 comments

Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291040

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 344 comments

Amazon Home Services

https://www.amazon.com/services/

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 238 comments

Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289500

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 123 comments

Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/nyregion/silk-road-case-federal-agents-charges.html

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 90 comments

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 51 comments

Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch

http://www.hscott.net/ycapp.html?

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 41 comments

“Today we moved into our new Facebook building”

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101999874192881

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 449 comments

I Just Poured Water on my Scanner

http://www.cpushack.com/2015/03/29/i-just-poured-water-on-my-scanner/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 64 comments

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 99 comments

Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/dhs-reddit-dark-web-drug-forum/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 215 comments

Dunning-Kruger and Other Memes

http://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 84 comments

No bullshit guide to math and physics

http://nobsgui.de/to/MATHandPHYSICS/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 75 comments

Meerkat is dying

http://bgr.com/2015/03/30/meerkat-vs-periscope-analysis-journalism

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 104 comments

Why are interest rates so low?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30-why-interest-rates-so-low

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 232 comments

The Invention of the Baby Carrot

http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-baby-carrot/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 37 comments

Hypothesis 1.0: A property-based testing library for Python

http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2015-March/006348.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 30 comments

An API is only as good as its documentation

https://rocketeer.be/blog/2015/03/api-quality/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted taking an investment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287415

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 68 comments

Why OCaml GADTs matter for performance

https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-gadts-matter-for-performance/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary

https://blog.cloudflare.com/improving-compression-with-preset-deflate-dictionary/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Interest in Bitcoin Grows on Wall Street

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/29/interest-in-bitcoin-grows-on-wall-street/?mod=WSJBlog

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Data is at the heart of search, but who has access to it?

http://andreasgal.com/2015/03/30/data-is-at-the-heart-of-search-but-who-has-access-to-it/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 81 comments

The Great Green Wall of Africa

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-green-wall-of-africa

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

How Mushrooms Could Hold the Key to Our Long-Term Survival as a Species

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-mushrooms-could-hold-the-key-to-our-long-term-survival

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

React Native: Initial Thoughts

http://unredacted.redalemeden.com/2015/initial-thoughts-about-react-native/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 102 comments

Windows 1.0 emulator

http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows1

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

More Details About Project Spartan

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/30/introducing-project-spartan-the-new-browser-built-for-windows-10/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 81 comments

Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning

https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/convolution-deep-learning/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft and Law Enforcement Transparency

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/03/27/when-transparency-alone-isnt-enough/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Thinking about Thinking (2007)

http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-thinking-about-thinking/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Intel’s Powered-Up Core I7 Broadwell Mini PC

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/mini-review-intels-powered-up-core-i7-broadwell-mini-pc/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

Why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Mockups for a free, ad-supported Uber service

http://andrewchen.co/this-is-what-free-ad-supported-uber-rides-might-look-like-mockups-economics-and-analysis/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Born Red: Profile of Xi Jinping

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

Monkey Patching in Go

http://bouk.co/blog/monkey-patching-in-go/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pro-discrimination-religious-freedom-laws-are-dangerous-to-america/2015/03/29/bdb4ce9e-d66d-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pro-discrimination-religious-freedom-laws-are-dangerous-to-america/2015/03/29/bdb4ce9e-d66d-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments

Dropbox Versus The World

http://www.fastcompany.com/3042436/tech-forecast/dropbox-versus-the-world

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

Inception: DMA Attack Against Linux, Windows, and Mac

https://github.com/carmaa/inception

11 years ago

★ 1.6k Python
79 upvotes – 25 comments

Web Scraping Indeed for Key Data Science Job Skills

https://jessesw.com/Data-Science-Skills/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

https://github.com/fabioberger/chrome

11 years ago

★ 379 JavaScript
72 upvotes – 11 comments

Goat Grazing by Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Suburbs rethink mass transit to court millennials

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/yearning-for-car-averse-millennials-suburbs-turn-to-transit/2015/03/29/cb916cd8-d259-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop_b

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 143 comments

A 63-pass FORTRAN compiler for the IBM 1401, illustrated

http://ibm-1401.info/1401-FORTRAN-Illustrated.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

The Magic Thread

http://blog.geoffralston.com/the-magic-thread

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Bitterness – Personalized Pranks Delivered

http://www.sweetnessapp.com/bitterness

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Criminal complaint against agents in Silk Road investigation [pdf]

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/30/criminal_complaint_force.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Python vs. Ruby – The Workshape.io Smackdown

http://blog.workshape.io/python-vs-ruby-the-workshape-smackdown/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

StubHub Sues Ticketmaster, Golden State Warriors, in Battle of Scalpers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/30/stubhub-sues-ticketmaster-golden-state-warriors-in-war-of-scalpers/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

PyPy-STM 2.5.1 released

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

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Monoids without tears (2014)

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/monoids-without-tears/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

ES6 generators in depth

http://www.2ality.com/2015/03/es6-generators.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

The Systemd Project Forks the Linux Kernel

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Infrastructure as code

http://www.alexgallego.org/random/thoughts/2015/03/28/infrastructure-as-code.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

Code Keyboards

https://codekeyboards.com/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 108 comments

Death March: The Long, Tortured Journey of Homefront (2012)

http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/1/3560318/homefront-kaos-studios-thq

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments

On Journeys

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/03/on-journeys.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 1 comments

Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints?

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184705-who-builds-a-house-without-drawing-blueprints/fulltext

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 64 comments
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