top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-07

Announcing SQL Server on Linux

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/

10 years ago

1344 upvotes – 476 comments

FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

http://flif.info/index.html

10 years ago

562 upvotes – 148 comments

How I could have hacked any Facebook account

http://www.anandpraka.sh/2016/03/how-i-could-have-hacked-your-facebook.html

10 years ago

443 upvotes – 159 comments

Verizon fined $1.3M for supercookie header injection [pdf]

https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0307/DA-16-242A1.pdf

10 years ago

407 upvotes – 107 comments

​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-gets-smacked-by-450-million-e-book-price-fixing-fine/

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 278 comments

Ten years on LinkedIn

https://evertpot.com/10-years-of-linkedin/

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 165 comments

Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-vp-the-fbi-wants-to-roll-back-safeguards-that-keep-us-a-step-ahead-of-criminals/2016/03/06/cceb0622-e3d1-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

10 years ago

321 upvotes – 118 comments

War Is a Racket (1935)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

10 years ago

306 upvotes – 167 comments

Statisticians Find They Can Agree: It’s Time to Stop Misusing P-Values

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values/

10 years ago

302 upvotes – 120 comments

So, you want to learn bookkeeping

http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html

10 years ago

280 upvotes – 87 comments

There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti

http://thegreatfredini.com/2016/03/06/theres-something-fishy-about-the-other-nefertiti/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 91 comments

How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

https://medium.com/@davidmytton/how-much-is-spotify-paying-google-cloud-ebb3bf180f15

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Host your status page on GitHub

https://github.com/pyupio/statuspage

10 years ago

★ 3.8k Python MIT
248 upvotes – 43 comments

Is group chat making you sweat?

https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 66 comments

Big News for ZFS on Linux

http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/03/07/big-news-for-zfs-on-linux/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 138 comments

Coffee Drip Printer

https://cias.rit.edu/faculty-staff/256/faculty/1186

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 27 comments

'Music' from /dev/urandom

http://blog.robertelder.org/bash-one-liner-compose-music/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 56 comments

Python Patterns (2013)

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/08/11/2300

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 45 comments

My next chapter

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster

https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/11/30/how-changing-webfonts-made-rubygems-10x-faster.html

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 95 comments

Cryptography: An Introduction (2011) [pdf]

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/414-F11/IntroToCrypto.pdf

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 10 comments

Ego depletion theory may have been debunked

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.single.html

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 99 comments

Avoiding a pointless blockchain project

http://www.multichain.com/blog/2015/11/avoiding-pointless-blockchain-project/

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

Collective Memory Discovered in Bacteria

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160307153047.htm

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 55 comments

Eligible Receiver: NSA’s successful 1997 hack of the U.S. military

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/inside_the_nsa_s_shockingly_successful_simulated_hack_of_the_u_s_military.single.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 24 comments

Stevia: Human-readable auto-layout in code

https://github.com/s4cha/Stevia

10 years ago

★ 3.4k Swift MIT
125 upvotes – 59 comments

The Sad State of the Backbone Ecosystem

http://benmccormick.org/2016/03/07/the-sad-state-of-the-backbone-ecosystem/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 62 comments

Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/encryptionbusting-quantum-computer-practices-factoring-in-scalable-fiveatom-experiment

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

The ETF Files: How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3T industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-etf-files/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 41 comments

Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01417

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Who's making $300k to $1m as a cloud engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239132

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

Getting Started with rkt

http://blog.codeship.com/getting-started-rkt/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 102 comments

Building a Distributed Hypervisor on FreeBSD (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ug6B6ycng

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 3 comments

How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling

http://fortune.com/zappos-tony-hsieh-holacracy/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 94 comments

How I rolled my own explainer video for my Saas in a weekend

https://medium.com/@dsabar/how-i-rolled-my-own-explainer-video-for-my-saas-in-a-weekend-for-less-than-100-a1a5b35f44ec#.k2wpapufi

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Finding Product Market Fit

http://rein.pk/finding-product-market-fit

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

‘They Don’t Make These Anymore’: Maintaining the MBTA’s 100-Year-Old Signals

http://www.wbur.org/2016/03/07/mbta-signal-maintenance

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Maths in Science – an interview with Don Knuth (2015)

http://authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.com/2015/11/maths-in-science-interview-with-don.html

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: CSS3 art book for babies

https://github.com/marvindanig/ABCD-Animal-Book

10 years ago

★ 239 CSS
92 upvotes – 18 comments

Skirret: a forgotten Tudor vegetable

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/fruitandvegetables/11421128/Skirret-the-forgotten-Tudor-vegetable.html

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

The secret life of a games programmer

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/secret-life-games-programmer

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: I Ported LevelDB to Universal Windows Platform

https://github.com/maxpert/LevelDBWinRT

10 years ago

★ 90 C++ BSD-3-Clause
83 upvotes – 19 comments

Temps, Consultants, and the Rise of the Precarious Economy

http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2016_Spring_Hyman.php

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Hamburgers

https://jonsuh.com/hamburgers/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Seven Hanged: The Book That Started World War One

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/FZndnQHF6qX2Mq8KJ2n012/seven-hanged-the-book-that-started-world-war-one

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

Rebass: Configurable React Stateless Functional UI Components

http://jxnblk.com/rebass

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Online C/C++ Code Browser

https://code.woboq.org

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

DIY Neurostimulation on the rise

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592_supp/full/531S6a.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments
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