top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-11

I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html

10 years ago

928 upvotes – 314 comments

Trackers

http://jacquesmattheij.com/trackers

10 years ago

874 upvotes – 209 comments

Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything

http://www.factorio.com/

10 years ago

582 upvotes – 113 comments

Hard Tech is Back

http://blog.samaltman.com/hard-tech-is-back

10 years ago

453 upvotes – 287 comments

Please scan my towel

http://jerrygamblin.com/2016/03/01/please-scan-my-towel/

10 years ago

407 upvotes – 105 comments

Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat

http://qz.com/637326/amazon-echo-home-alone-with-npr-on-got-confused-and-hijacked-a-thermostat

10 years ago

399 upvotes – 144 comments

A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=50706.msg1188742

10 years ago

388 upvotes – 80 comments

Image Processing 101

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/six/image-processing-101

10 years ago

368 upvotes – 41 comments

How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki

10 years ago

★ 23.4k C++
363 upvotes – 36 comments

Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/dells-skylake-xps-13-precision-workstations-now-come-with-ubuntu-preinstalled/

10 years ago

345 upvotes – 235 comments

America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries' High School Dropouts

http://wamc.org/post/americas-high-school-graduates-look-other-countries-high-school-dropouts

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 359 comments

UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/10/uk-surveillance-powers-bill-could-force-startups-to-bake-in-backdoors/

10 years ago

280 upvotes – 150 comments

Terra Bella

https://terrabella.google.com/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 159 comments

GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/11/gm-buys-self-driving-tech-startup-cruise-as-part-of-a-plan-to-make-driverless-cars/

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?

https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/b5310a423295#.v775mh4mp

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 86 comments

Scala School

http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 173 comments

Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly development

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/19495

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 55 comments

How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/How-to-Learn-Advanced-Mathematics-Without-Heading-to-University-Part-1

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 74 comments

FBI May Demand iOS Source Code, Signing Key

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/10/11196548/apple-accuses-department-of-justice-fbi-smearing-desperation

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 156 comments

Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 24 comments

TP-Link blocks open source router firmware to comply with new FCC rule

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-link-blocks-open-source-router-firmware-to-comply-with-new-fcc-rule/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 99 comments

Shit My Reviewers Say

http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.com/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 59 comments

Why the German language has so many great words

https://theconversation.com/why-the-german-language-has-so-many-great-words-55554

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 158 comments

Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/03/are-wealthy-neighborhoods-to-blame-for-gentrification-of-poorer-ones/473349/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 208 comments

Croteam releases Serious Sam Classics engine under GPL

https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

10 years ago

★ 3.1k C++ GPL-2.0
146 upvotes – 19 comments

Golang SSA performance numbers

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/m1r8kSle30Y

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 26 comments

Golang: channels are not enough

https://gist.github.com/kachayev/21e7fe149bc5ae0bd878

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 114 comments

Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access (2015) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf?sequence=8

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 5 comments

Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/frameworks-dont-make-sense/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 138 comments

BMW and the GPL

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/bmw-and-the-gpl/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 43 comments

PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

Why killer whales should not be kept in captivity

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160310-why-killer-whales-should-not-be-kept-in-captivity

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 135 comments

Mystery 'Dude' Rattles Turkish Stock Traders With Massive Bets

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/mystery-dude-rattles-turkish-stock-traders-with-massive-bets

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 45 comments

Ink: the scripting language behind 80 Days and Sorcery

http://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 18 comments

Welcome x 11

https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-x11

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-newly-bacteria-plastic-bottles.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Jigsaw Finally Arrives in JDK 9

http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/jigsaw-jdk-9

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

MH370 Debris Storm

http://jeffwise.net/2016/03/10/mh370-debris-storm/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Is It Cheaper to Stay in an Airbnb ‘Entire Home’ Rental or a Hotel?

https://www.travelstatistician.com/2016/02/is-it-cheaper-to-stay-in-an-airbnb-rental-or-hotel/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 111 comments

TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load generator

https://github.com/machinezone/tcpkali

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-disaster-decommissioning-idUSKCN0WB2X5

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments

Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization

http://blog.sigopt.com/post/140871698423/sigopt-for-ml-unsupervised-learning-with-even

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Gold?

http://kevinlawler.com/gold

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 132 comments

EigenCoder: Programming Stereotypes

http://trestletech.com/2016/03/09/eigencoder/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Design and Science Is a New Kind of Publication

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/mit-media-labs-journal-design-science-radical-new-kind-publication/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

The Open API Initiative

https://openapis.org/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Penguin swims 5,000 miles every year to see man who saved his life

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/09/penguin-swims-5000-miles-every-year-for-reunion-with-the-man-who-saved-his-life-5741518/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments
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