top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-06

Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware

https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17834

10 years ago

895 upvotes – 338 comments

Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars

http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaway-cars.html

10 years ago

585 upvotes – 361 comments

Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary

10 years ago

451 upvotes – 69 comments

Proselint

http://proselint.com/

10 years ago

398 upvotes – 137 comments

Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP

http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp

10 years ago

322 upvotes – 49 comments

CEO

http://jacquesmattheij.com/ceo

10 years ago

313 upvotes – 157 comments

Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/03/legal-marijuana-is-finally-doing-what-the-drug-war-couldnt/

10 years ago

300 upvotes – 223 comments

Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (2013)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/davrous/2013/06/13/tutorial-series-learning-how-to-write-a-3d-soft-engine-from-scratch-in-c-typescript-or-javascript/

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 36 comments

There are no acceptable ads

https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads#wrapper

10 years ago

★ 188 HTML AGPL-3.0
226 upvotes – 278 comments

Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/the-magical-thing-eating-chocolate-does-to-your-brain/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 93 comments

Image Analogies using Neural Networks

https://github.com/awentzonline/image-analogies/?

10 years ago

★ 3.5k Python MIT
186 upvotes – 28 comments

Frege – a Haskell for the JVM

https://github.com/Frege/frege

10 years ago

★ 3.6k Frege
177 upvotes – 48 comments

The nanolight revolution is coming

http://www.nature.com/news/the-nanolight-revolution-is-coming-1.19482

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 18 comments

The $300M Button (2009)

https://articles.uie.com/three_hund_million_button/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

Hacking industrial vehicles from the internet

http://jcarlosnorte.com/security/2016/03/06/hacking-tachographs-from-the-internets.html

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 46 comments

Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-saving cures

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/desperate-foreigners-turn-india-search-cut-price-life-saving-cures/#.VtvsXMtX7qB

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 127 comments

Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/3/198874-lessons-learned-from-30-years-of-minix/fulltext

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

Children who see clearly underwater

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160229-the-sea-nomad-children-who-see-like-dolphins

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 62 comments

Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting

http://jcarlosnorte.com/security/2016/03/06/advanced-tor-browser-fingerprinting.html

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines

http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

Commuting Takes Its Toll

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/commuting-takes-its-toll/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 125 comments

Last Men Standing: the luck to survive AIDS, and the misfortune to live on

http://projects.sfchronicle.com/2016/living-with-aids/story/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 21 comments

Beginning Game Programming in C++

http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts

http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi-roundtable-thoughts

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 110 comments

Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C

https://github.com/tj/luna

10 years ago

★ 2.4k C
113 upvotes – 33 comments

PDF viewer that works inside terminals that support inline graphics

https://github.com/dsanson/termpdf

10 years ago

★ 655 Shell MIT
113 upvotes – 18 comments

400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-winter-of-400gbps-weekend-ddos-attacks/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/sunday-review/the-world-has-a-problem-too-many-young-people.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: SSHTron – Play Tron/lightcycle over SSH

http://sshtron.zachlatta.com

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

A struggle within MIT’s IT department over its future

http://tech.mit.edu/V136/N3/istfeature.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-

10 years ago

★ 8.2k JavaScript MIT
99 upvotes – 48 comments

Keshif, a web-based tool that lets you browse and understand datasets easily

http://keshif.me/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Portolan Charts 'Too Accurate' to Be Medieval

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/648-portolan-charts-too-accurate-to-be-medieval

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/can-a-3-year-old-represent-herself-in-immigration-court-this-judge-thinks-so/2016/03/03/5be59a32-db25-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments

Open Hunt is shutting down

https://www.openhunt.co/?=shutdown

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Returning multiple values from functions in C++

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/returning-multiple-values-from-functions-in-c/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 62 comments
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