top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-25

Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/microsoft-says-it-will-file-an-amicus-brief-to-support-apple

10 years ago

What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html

10 years ago

Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#@25m50s

10 years ago

Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hub-as-necessary-effective-civil-disobedience/

10 years ago

What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes

http://observer.com/2016/02/behind-the-scam-what-does-it-takes-to-be-a-bestselling-author-3-and-5-minutes/

10 years ago

TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret

http://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/ttip-enters-new-and-dangerous-stage-as-democracy-is-dismantled-in-secret/

10 years ago

Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2016/02/type-edit-and-format-with-your-voice-in.html

10 years ago

KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client

https://github.com/antelle/keeweb

10 years ago

★ 20 HTML

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

10 years ago

Swift Ported to Android

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442

10 years ago

★ 69.9k Swift Apache-2.0

Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'

https://www.onthewire.io/cook-this-is-not-what-should-be-happening-in-this-country/

10 years ago

Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-registrar/

10 years ago

Making GitLab faster

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/25/making-gitlab-faster/?

10 years ago

Just Landed Is Shutting Down

https://medium.com/@jongrall/just-landed-is-shutting-down-629765cbe1d7#

10 years ago

Functional Programming at Facebook

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/16wi-cs240h/slides/fb-slides.html#(1)

10 years ago

The Lisp Curse (2011)

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

10 years ago

Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python

https://ggulati.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/coding-jarvis-in-python-3-in-2016/

10 years ago

Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/

10 years ago

Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082470.html

10 years ago

Hacker News CSRF Vulnerability

http://www.tjosse.me/articles/csrf-on-hn/

10 years ago

Why Go solves so many problems for web developers

http://ewanvalentine.io/why-go-solves-so-many-problems-for-web-developers/

10 years ago

“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work

http://www.anl.gov/articles/argonne-achates-power-and-delphi-automotive-investigate-new-approach-engines

10 years ago

Google seeks new disks for data centers

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google-seeks-new-disks-for-data-centers.html

10 years ago

On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search results

https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-uselessness-of-google-search-results/

10 years ago

Which Occupations Are Priced Out of Homeownership?

http://www.estately.com/occupation-real-estate-affordability

10 years ago

Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps

http://manuel.bernhardt.io/2016/02/25/upgrading-from-react-0-11-2-to-0-14-7-in-374-easy-steps/

10 years ago

PadMapper (YC S10) is Joining Zumper

http://blog.padmapper.com/2016/02/25/padmapper-is-joining-zumper/

10 years ago

Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction

http://Curiositystream.com

10 years ago

Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/curiosity-depends-on-what-you-already-know

10 years ago

Spotify's Kafka-Based Event Delivery System

https://labs.spotify.com/2016/02/25/spotifys-event-delivery-the-road-to-the-cloud-part-i/

10 years ago

Sharp Agrees to $6.2B Bailout from Foxconn, Nikkei Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/sharp-agrees-to-6-2-billion-bailout-from-foxconn-nikkei-says

10 years ago

Forthcoming OpenSSL releases

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-February/000063.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Redspread (YC W16) – CLI to deploy Docker to Kubernetes in one command

https://github.com/redspread/spread

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go Apache-2.0

Scientists track down the source of mysterious radio bursts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/25/scientists-finally-track-down-the-source-of-mysterious-radio-bursts/

10 years ago

Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/apple-may-use-first-amendment-defense-fbi-case-just-might-work/

10 years ago

Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/

10 years ago

Startup Failure Post-Mortems

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem

10 years ago

Zuckerberg Asks Employees to Stop Crossing Out “Black Lives Matter” at FB HQ

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/mark-zuckerberg-asks-employees-to-stop-crossing-out-black-lives-matter-on-facebooks-walls/?ncid=rss

10 years ago

C-API Support update

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/02/c-api-support-update.html

10 years ago

Some PDP-7 source code

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-February/006622.html

10 years ago

How core.async and CSP help you prove your async code works

http://reaktor.com/blog/why-csp-matters-i-keeping-things-in-sync/

10 years ago

A Deep Dive into React Perf Debugging

http://benchling.engineering/deep-dive-react-perf-debugging/

10 years ago

Statement from the Tor Project Re: The Court's Feb. 23 Order in U.S. v. Farrell

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-tor-project-re-courts-february-23-order-us-v-farrell

10 years ago

How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Oil Crisis

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-ev-oil-crisis/

10 years ago

Opera CEO: Sale to Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/opera-ceo-sale-to-chinese-consortium-wasnt-our-decision/

10 years ago

A Typeface Designed to Revive the Endangered Cherokee Language

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-typeface-designed-to-revive-the-endangered-cherokee-language-typetuesday/

10 years ago

Show HN: GDOM – GraphQL for DOM traversing

https://github.com/syrusakbary/gdom/?

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Python BSD-3-Clause

Libpostal: international street address parsing in C trained on OpenStreetMap

https://mapzen.com/blog/inside-libpostal

10 years ago

Show HN: Smartmockups – Create product screenshots with just a few clicks

http://smartmockups.com

10 years ago

Current Proposals for C++17

http://meetingcpp.com/index.php/br/items/current-proposals-for-c17.html

10 years ago

San Jose: A Place Where the Poor Once Thrived

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-place-where-the-poor-once-thrived/470667/?single_page=true

10 years ago