top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-04

MAME is now Free and Open Source Software

http://mamedev.org/?p=422

10 years ago

580 upvotes – 91 comments

We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else

http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-everyone-else/

10 years ago

523 upvotes – 364 comments

Go by Example

https://gobyexample.com/

10 years ago

392 upvotes – 72 comments

Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/03/cory-doctorow-wealth-inequality-is-even-worse-in-reputation-economies/

10 years ago

334 upvotes – 134 comments

Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/

10 years ago

329 upvotes – 279 comments

What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-roundtable-6c11a10d8cdf

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 204 comments

Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft-monopolise-pc-games-development-epic-games-gears-of-war

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 284 comments

Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/deep-dive-why-forcing-apple-write-and-sign-code-violates-first-amendment

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 109 comments

Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/biggest-patent-troll-of-2014-gives-up-drops-appeal/

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 62 comments

SeedRamp

http://www.seedramp.com/

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/03/enjoying-java-and-being-more-productive-with-intellij-idea/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 110 comments

Amazon confirms it has dropped device encryption support for its Fire Tablets

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/amazon-confirms-it-has-dropped-device-encryption-for-its-fire-tablets/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

Poor Sleep Gives You the Munchies, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/science/sleep-eating-craving-food.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=4&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fscience%2Fsleep-eating-craving-food.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

10 years ago

★ 16.8k C MIT
163 upvotes – 50 comments

Paul Klee's Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/3900-pages-of-paul-klees-personal-notebooks-are-now-online.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 7 comments

The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1980s-media-panic-over-dungeons-dragons

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 130 comments

How Duolingo got 110M users without spending on marketing

https://www.techinasia.com/how-duolingo-got-110-million-users

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 63 comments

Limor Fried’s Artful Electronics

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/limor-frieds-artful-electronics?intcid=mod-latest

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 29 comments

SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 90 comments

Scala on LLVM

http://greedy.github.io/scala-llvm/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 36 comments

Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160303-cheap-oil-is-taking-shipping-routes-back-to-the-1800s

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 72 comments

Life and death in the App Store

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11140928/app-store-economy-apple-android-pixite-bankruptcy

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 58 comments

My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/02/22/my-view-on-the-.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 75 comments

H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50

http://www.rtc.news/posts/pawtYYfpmsG6Zed3W/h-264-is-supported-in-webrtc-from-chrome-50-here-s-how-to

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 45 comments

China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/china-tries-its-hand-at-pre-crime

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 81 comments

Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3041032/desktop-apps/intuit-sells-quicken-to-private-equity-firm-in-management-buyout.html

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 106 comments

ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via Nonintrusive Physical Side Channels

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/230

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-fired-from-Facebook?share=1

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 129 comments

The Startup Stock Tracker

http://graphics.wsj.com/tech-startup-stocks-to-watch/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

What's in a Build Tool?

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsinaBuildTool.html

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 69 comments

Bees Making Honey with Cannabis

https://greenrushdaily.com/2016/03/03/bees-making-honey-from-cannabis/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 45 comments

Timothy Gowers is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11160540/timothy-gowers-discrete-analysis

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

AMD wants to standardize the external GPU

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/amd-wants-to-standardise-the-external-gpu/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking

https://blockads.fivefilters.org

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 139 comments

When I Was Your Age

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2016/03/03/131627/when-i-was-your-age/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 134 comments

Performance and Usage at Instagram

https://engineering.instagram.com/posts/193415561023919/performance-usage-at-instagram/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/03/04/are-you-smarter-than-a-quant-here-are-5-questions-from-the-momath-masters-contest/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

Deep Learning Benchmarks

http://autumnai.com/deep-learning-benchmarks.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Startup bank Mondo raised £1m crowdfunding in 96 seconds

https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2016/03/03/crowdfunded/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Tile38 – A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing

https://github.com/tidwall/tile38

10 years ago

★ 9.6k Go MIT
82 upvotes – 18 comments

Why huge gains in drug discovery tech have led to longer drug development times

https://www.hdphealth.com/2016/03/04/one-of-the-most-important-biopharma-research-papers-of-our-time-qa-with-the-authors/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Swift Asserts

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-03-04-swift-asserts.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

C++ basics for competitive programming

https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/power-up-c-with-the-standard-template-library-part-1/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/upshot/silicon-valley-has-not-saved-us-from-a-productivity-slowdown.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 85 comments

Building microservices with akka-http

http://labs.unacast.com/2016/03/03/building-microservices-with-akka-http/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Introducing the Parse Server Dashboard

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/introducing-the-parse-server-dashboard/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

FBI Claims It Has No Record of Deleting Its Recommendation to Encrypt Phones

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160226/14181133727/fbi-claims-it-has-no-record-why-it-deleted-recommendation-to-encrypt-phones.shtml

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

A Deep Dive into DNS Packet Sizes

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-deep-dive-into-dns-packet-sizes-why-smaller-packet-sizes-keep-the-internet-safe/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants file legal briefs in support of Apple

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11156704/apple-fbi-amicus-briefs-iphone-encryption-fight

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science

http://plain-text.co/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

How to design a Linux kernel interface [video]

http://mirror.as35701.net/video.fosdem.org/2016/janson/how-to-design-a-linux-kernel-api.mp4

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

CloudFlare Watch

http://www.crimeflare.com/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Teaching kids to program in their native language

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/03/teaching-kids-to-program-in-their.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 57 comments
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