top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-18

iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

https://iterm2.com/version3.html

10 years ago

622 upvotes – 242 comments

Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/apple-apologizes-and-updates-ios-to-restore-iphones-disabled-by-error-53/

10 years ago

400 upvotes – 193 comments

Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident

http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/02/paul-graham-startup-school-radio-interview/

10 years ago

368 upvotes – 87 comments

How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/contemplation-therapy/

10 years ago

355 upvotes – 203 comments

Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-enters-beta-open-to-all-to-try.html

10 years ago

350 upvotes – 105 comments

Mathematics Animations

http://www.3blue1brown.com/

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 37 comments

SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/18/s-f-tech-bro-writes-open-letter-to-mayor-i-shouldnt-have-to-see-the-pain-struggle-and-despair-of-homeless-people/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-f-duplicate%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 499 comments

ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-is-fs-for-containers-in-ubuntu-1604.html

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 278 comments

Upload files to your repositories

https://github.com/blog/2105-upload-files-to-your-repositories

10 years ago

276 upvotes – 88 comments

Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/18/civilization-25-years-66-versions-33m-copies-sold-1-billion-hours-played/

10 years ago

252 upvotes – 190 comments

On Marrying the Wrong Person

http://www.thebookoflife.org/how-we-end-up-marrying-the-wrong-people/

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 120 comments

Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google-and-Red-Hat-announce-cloud-based-scalable-file-servers.html

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 78 comments

A visit with Apple’s chief chipmaker

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-johny-srouji-apple-chief-chipmaker/

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 109 comments

Outerra, 3d planetary engine for seamless planet rendering from space to surface

http://www.outerra.com/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 47 comments

Zenefits Scandal Highlights Perils of Hypergrowth at Startups

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/zenefits-scandal-highlights-perils-of-hypergrowth-at-start-ups.html

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 211 comments

Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/nginx-a-caching-thumbnailing-reverse-proxying-image-server-/

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 57 comments

Why YC

http://www.ycombinator.com/why/

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 108 comments

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/history-of-massive-scale-sorting-experiments-at-google

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/tech-reactions-on-apple-highlight-issues-with-government-requests.html

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 198 comments

Comodo Internet Security installs and starts a VNC server by default

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=703

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 49 comments

Python 3 in 2016

https://hynek.me/articles/python3-2016/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 187 comments

Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China

http://www.reuters.com/article/uber-china-idUSKCN0VR1M9

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 180 comments

Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/02/17/google-launches-fresh-grocery-deliveries/

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 152 comments

Mern: Build JavaScript apps using React and Redux

http://mern.io/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 133 comments

Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/sneaky-change-tpp-drastically-extends-criminal-penalties

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 0 comments

Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

http://www.nina4airbnb.com/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 105 comments

ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served per Second

http://www.ageofascent.com/asp-net-core-exeeds-1-15-million-requests-12-6-gbps/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 64 comments

Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-guide-to-mathematics-for-programmers/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 130 comments

Google Cloud Debugger: use local source, Go and Node.js support, IntelliJ plugin

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/diagnose-problems-in-your-production-apps-faster-with-Google-Cloud-Debugger.html

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

Edge of the Abyss (2012)

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/edge-of-the-abyss-20120819-24h4r

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Ex-NSA and CIA Chief Hayden Sides with Apple

https://theweek.com/speedreads/606641/exnsa-cia-chief-michael-hayden-sides-apple-fbi-iphone-encryption-fight

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 14 comments

TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC proposed regulation

http://ml.ninux.org/pipermail/battlemesh/2016-February/004379.html

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

Software “detects CEO emotions, predicts financial performance”

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/02/17/software-detects-ceo-emotions-predicts-financial-performance/?mod=trending_now_5

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

Bitbucket secrets

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/6-secret-bitbucket-features/?categories=git

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 44 comments

Silicon Valley: Season 3 Tease (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMAUG8oVY_4

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords

https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/02/17/acceptance-of-fido-2-0-specifications-by-the-w3c-accelerates-the-movement-to-end-passwords/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 92 comments

Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/17/scientists-cant-agree-whether-salt-is-killing-us-heres-why/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 142 comments

Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel

https://www.zephyrproject.org

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 60 comments

A Linux-powered microwave oven

https://lwn.net/Articles/674877/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

One-Third of Clinical Trial Results Never Disclosed, Study Finds

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/one-third-of-clinical-trial-results-never-disclosed-study-finds

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Bernie’s Army of Coders

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/bernie-sanders-army-of-coders-2016-213647

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

http://ukopenbanking.com

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Venezuela president raises fuel price, devalues bolivar to tackle crisis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/venezuela-president-raises-fuel-price-by-1300-and-devalues-bolivar-to-tackle-crisis

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

Senator drafting bill to criminalize Apple’s refusal to aid decryption

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/senator-drafting-bill-to-criminalize-apples-refusal-to-aid-decryption/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/apple-unlocked-iphones-for-the-feds-70-times-before.html

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land Boeing 737

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/18/boeing_737_instructional_video/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-francisco-tech-open-letter-i-dont-want-to-see-homeless-riff-raff

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

Airport security in America discovered more than seven guns per day in 2015

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/02/concealed-carry

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 156 comments

Using API Simulation to Build Microservices Alongside a Java Monolith

http://www.specto.io/blog/using-api-simulation-to-build-microservices.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into speedy Chromebooks

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11030406/neverware-google-chromebook-chromium-os-education-microsoft

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

SimpliSafe Alarm System Replay Attack

http://blog.ioactive.com/2016/02/remotely-disabling-wireless-burglar.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments
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