top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-02

Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-drug-bans-are-ineffective-a-1078402.html

10 years ago

Curl vs. Wget

https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

10 years ago

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engineers-warn-it-could-fail-at-any-time-killing-1m-people

10 years ago

The Untold History of Arduino

http://arduinohistory.github.io/

10 years ago

Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/01/congress-showed-willing-fight-fbi-encryption-finally

10 years ago

Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (1997) [pdf]

http://www.math.toronto.edu/lgoldmak/Rota.pdf

10 years ago

Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/03/kanye-west-caught-using-pirate-bay-to-download-music-software/

10 years ago

Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4712.html

10 years ago

Go channels are bad

http://www.jtolds.com/writing/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad/

10 years ago

Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-innovation-idUSKCN0W421V

10 years ago

I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12

https://backchannel.com/i-ve-had-a-cyberstalker-since-i-was-12-384ea9853b79

10 years ago

If a Soyuz capsule lands in front of you, follow these instructions [pdf]

http://www.spaceref.com/iss/soyuz/SCLSaB.edit.pdf

10 years ago

Leaving Mozilla

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/03/leaving-mozilla.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game

http://www.flexboxdefense.com

10 years ago

Why you probably don't need an MBA

http://www.economist.com/whichmba/mba-diary-why-you-probably-dont-need-mba

10 years ago

The collective insanity of the publishing industry

http://genedoucette.me/2016/02/the-collective-madness-of-the-publishing-industry/

10 years ago

1Password sends your password in clear text across the loopback interface

https://medium.com/@rosshosman/1password-sends-your-password-across-the-loopback-interface-in-clear-text-307cefca6389#.h9l20j6lv

10 years ago

OCaml 4.03: Everything else

https://blogs.janestreet.com/ocaml-4-03-everything-else/

10 years ago

Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults

https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

10 years ago

★ 2.1k Shell MIT

Undersea Cable System Cuts in Singapore

http://status.linode.com/incidents/wwzn1mcmc2fp

10 years ago

A Better Pip Workflow

http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/a-better-pip-workflow

10 years ago

The Utah Teapot: Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History

http://nautil.us/blog/the-most-important-object-in-computer-graphics-history-is-this-teapot

10 years ago

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees

http://recode.net/2016/03/02/linkedin-ceo-jeff-weiner-is-passing-his-14-million-stock-grant-to-employees/

10 years ago

Python Exercises for Kids

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1300

10 years ago

Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/oregon-lawmakers-accidentally-gave-comcast-a-big-tax-break/

10 years ago

How Zenefits' Big Bet on Sales Went Wrong

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/how-zenefits-big-bet-on-sales-went-wrong

10 years ago

Play: A P2P distributed torrent site that's impossible to shut down

https://torrentfreak.com/play-p2p-impossible-shutdown-160301/

10 years ago

Software Maintenance by Skeleton Crew Is an Anti-Pattern

https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/02/23/software-maintenance-is-an-anti-pattern/

10 years ago

Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads

https://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/some-ad-blockers-are-tracking.html

10 years ago

Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a6fb2aede7c8d47b4d913eb83fa45bbeca76c433

10 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause

ZeroNet – Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

10 years ago

★ 18.7k JavaScript

My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface

https://medium.com/@CMaury/war-stories-my-journey-from-blindness-to-building-a-fully-conversational-user-interface-5ffb74a74c6d#.2i29t9d3n

10 years ago

The architect of the Reich: On the architectural horror of Albert Speer

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-architect-of-the-Reich-8384

10 years ago

Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

https://www.metavision.com/

10 years ago

Apple Fight Could Lead to “Virtually Limitless” Surveillance Powers, Judge Warns

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/apple-all-writs-act-and-limitless-surveillance

10 years ago

Show HN: Restdb.io – a plug and play database service

https://restdb.io

10 years ago

Tantalum: WebGL Light Propagation Simulation

https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html

10 years ago

The smart home freak show stops here

http://www.thememo.com/2016/03/02/the-smart-home-freak-show-stops-here/

10 years ago

Why America abandoned nuclear power, and what we can learn from South Korea

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-us-france-korea

10 years ago

Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapse/pdlifinplmfmoeppfooipommbdljhdmp

10 years ago

Why Is Vertical Rhythm an Important Typography Practice?

http://zellwk.com/blog/why-vertical-rhythms/

10 years ago

Seaside – Developing Sophisticated Web Applications in Smalltalk

http://seaside.st/

10 years ago

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/inside-the-artificial-intelligence-revolution-a-special-report-pt-1-20160229

10 years ago

The absolute horror of WiFi light switches

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/the-absolute-horror-of-wifi-light-switches/

10 years ago

GNU complexity 1.5

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00012.html

10 years ago

Preregistration of clinical trials causes medicines to stop working

http://chrisblattman.com/2016/03/01/13719/

10 years ago

An Update on Fast Transit Routing with Transfer Patterns

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-update-on-fast-transit-routing-with.html

10 years ago

Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/03/01/update-on-connected-devices/

10 years ago

$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/chinese_backdoor_found_in_ebays_popular_cheap_smart_watch/

10 years ago

The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/02/cult-of-memory-when-history-does-more-harm-than-good

10 years ago

Show HN: CLJS Fiddle – ClojureScript

http://cljsfiddle.com

10 years ago

Introducing the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/introducing-the-webvr-1-0-api-proposal/

10 years ago

Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling

http://3.14.by/en/read/arduino-liquid-nitrogen-overclocking

10 years ago

Web Audio Arpeggiator

http://arpeggiator.desandro.com/

10 years ago

Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga, Is Replaced as CEO Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/mark-pincus-will-again-leave-zynga-ceo-job.html?ref=technology&_r=0

10 years ago

Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft With Smart Contracts

https://github.com/buckie/juno

10 years ago

★ 451 Haskell BSD-3-Clause

Fitt's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

10 years ago

Experimentally verified: “Why client-side templating is wrong” (2015)

http://www.onebigfluke.com/2015/01/experimentally-verified-why-client-side.html

10 years ago

One Day After Indictment, Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Dies in Car Crash

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/02/468930105/one-day-after-indictment-former-chesapeake-energy-ceo-dies-in-car-crash

10 years ago

U.S. military invites vetted experts to 'Hack the Pentagon'

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-pentagon-idUSKCN0W40H8

10 years ago

Show HN: Atri: an experiment in web economics

https://www.atri.me/

10 years ago

Show HN: Turn GPS tracks into 3D-Printed mountains

http://www.nicetrails.com

10 years ago

Show HN: Dexter, an open platform for building, sharing, and deploying your hack

https://rundexter.com/market

10 years ago