top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-08

How to Pass a Programming Interview

http://blog.triplebyte.com/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview

10 years ago

CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomment-193772935

10 years ago

★ 14.8k Ruby

One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/one-fbis-major-claims-iphone-case-fraudulent

10 years ago

Let’s ban elementary homework

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/homework_is_wrecking_our_kids_the_research_is_clear_lets_ban_elementary_homework/

10 years ago

Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/lets-encrypt-has-issued-million-certificates

10 years ago

Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust

https://github.com/autumnai/leaf/tree/f0b11961b5a0649544a1101b960c670a0bebf57c

10 years ago

★ 5.5k Rust Apache-2.0

My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/my-year-in-san-franciscos-2-million-secret-society-startup

10 years ago

A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)

http://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html

10 years ago

Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/08/python-3-is-winning/

10 years ago

Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/intermittent-fasting-diets-are-gaining-acceptance/

10 years ago

FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/fbi-changes-privacy-rules-accessing-nsa-prism-data

10 years ago

The connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster

http://blog.longreads.com/2016/03/08/your-phone-was-made-by-slaves-a-primer-on-the-secret-economy/

10 years ago

Pencil: A Microframework Inspired by Flask for Rust

https://fengsp.github.io/blog/2016/3/introducing-pencil/

10 years ago

Is this prime?

http://isthisprime.com/game/

10 years ago

Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation/

10 years ago

Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/power-wastage-on-an-idle-laptop/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247368

10 years ago

Hidden motors for road bikes

http://cyclingtips.com/2015/04/hidden-motors-for-road-bikes-exist-heres-how-they-work/

10 years ago

How cancer cells fuel their growth

http://news.mit.edu/2016/how-cancer-cells-fuel-their-growth-0307

10 years ago

If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too

http://haakonsk.blogg.no/1456259429_if_youre_alive_in_30_.html

10 years ago

LLVM 3.8 Release Notes

http://llvm.org/releases/3.8.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

10 years ago

Xterm(1) now UTF-8 by default on OpenBSD

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160308204011

10 years ago

Theranos Ran Tests Despite Quality Problems

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-ran-tests-despite-quality-problems-1457399479

10 years ago

Neural Networks and Deep Learning: An Introduction

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/index.html

10 years ago

Push notifications from Go with Apple's new HTTP/2 protocol

https://github.com/sideshow/apns2

10 years ago

★ 3.1k Go MIT

NyaoVim: Web-enhanced Extensible Neovim Front End

https://github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim

10 years ago

★ 2.2k TypeScript

Why the poor pay more for toilet paper and just about everything else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/why-the-poor-pay-more-for-toilet-paper-and-just-about-everything-else/

10 years ago

Chinese exports plunge 25% in February

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35751586

10 years ago

Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/ballr-interactive-nba-shot-charts-with-r-and-shiny/

10 years ago

Millennials Are Poorer Than Their Parents, Investigation Finds

http://www.vice.com/read/its-not-your-imagination-millennials-are-poorer-than-old-people-vgtrn

10 years ago

Machine Learning in Rust

http://athemathmo.github.io/2016/03/07/rusty-machine.html

10 years ago

A Million Text Files and a Single Laptop

http://randyzwitch.com/gnu-parallel-medium-data/

10 years ago

Visual Programming Is Unbelievable (2015)

http://www.outsystems.com/blog/2015/03/visual-programming-is-unbelievable.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Papier – Open a new tab and trap your best thoughts

http://getpapier.com/

10 years ago

On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers

http://prog21.dadgum.com/217.html

10 years ago

Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X ransomware

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/07/apple-has-shut-down-the-first-fully-functional-mac-os-x-ransomware/

10 years ago

EFF Opposes McCaul-Warner Encryption Commission

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/eff-opposes-mccaul-warner-encryption-commission

10 years ago

Fmod.io – Sound Effects for Game Developers

http://fmod.io/

10 years ago

The Phoenix Is Not Burnt Out, It Is Just Rebooting

http://michaeldehaan.net/post/140649196217/the-phoenix-is-not-burnt-out-it-is-just-rebooting

10 years ago

TreeSheets: Free-Form Data Organizer

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

10 years ago

Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live

http://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=7395

10 years ago

Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modelling and Speech Recognition [pdf] (2012)

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/171498/HintonDengYuEtAl-SPM2012.pdf

10 years ago

Swedes uncover Disqus user security breach

http://www.thelocal.se/20131212/millions-of-disqus-comments-leaked-to-swedish-group

10 years ago

Ray Tracing: The Next Week – free eBook

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CO7PQ8C/

10 years ago

Cyclops: a programming language written in undeciphered Greek runes

http://cyclopslang.org

10 years ago

Open Semantic Search

http://www.opensemanticsearch.org/

10 years ago