top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-16

VPN Comparison Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?sle=true

10 years ago

510 upvotes – 194 comments

Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/open-source-devs-racing-build-better-versions-slack/

10 years ago

498 upvotes – 383 comments

Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-nabs-apple-as-a-cloud-customer-2016-3

10 years ago

471 upvotes – 216 comments

JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript

http://staltz.com/all-js-libraries-should-be-authored-in-typescript.html

10 years ago

386 upvotes – 275 comments

Stargate Physics 101: A comedy about the importance of software testing

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3673335

10 years ago

334 upvotes – 67 comments

Firing People

https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people

10 years ago

322 upvotes – 98 comments

An XSS on Facebook via PNGs and Wonky Content Types

https://fin1te.net/articles/xss-on-facebook-via-png-content-types/

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 45 comments

Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access

https://medium.com/@mroth/u-1f647-person-bowing-deeply-5402c3ee5676#.z3df4bj6h

10 years ago

293 upvotes – 184 comments

FBI Wants It to Be Impractical to Deploy Strong Encryption Without Key Escrow

https://rietta.com/blog/2016/03/16/its-not-just-one-iphone/

10 years ago

293 upvotes – 179 comments

Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-shares-software-network-load-balancer-design-powering-GCP-networking.html?m=1

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 57 comments

What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-we-learned-in-seoul-with-alphago.html

10 years ago

259 upvotes – 74 comments

English Syntax Highlighting

http://evanhahn.github.io/English-text-highlighting/

10 years ago

248 upvotes – 105 comments

The Clipper Chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 39 comments

The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue

https://segment.com/blog/the-deep-roots-of-js-fatigue/

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 178 comments

LivingSocial Is Laying Off More Than 50 Percent of Its Staff

http://recode.net/2016/03/16/livingsocial-is-laying-off-more-than-50-percent-of-its-staff/

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 161 comments

How your data is collected and commoditised via “free” online services

http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/03/how-your-data-is-collected-and.html

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 68 comments

Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering

https://medium.com/@rtotheohan/emac-s-org-mode-will-improve-your-software-engineering-d7bc2f30a0#.r2ohguph1

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 125 comments

Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/millennials-flee-vancouver-for-cities-with-more-affordable-homes

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 260 comments

Grd – A CSS grid framework using Flexbox in 512 bytes gzipped

https://1000ch.github.io/grd/

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 150 comments

List of Productized Consulting Services

http://www.christophengelhardt.com/ultimate-badass-list-of-productized-consulting-services/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 55 comments

How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 69 comments

Qt 5.6.0 released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/03/16/qt-5-6-released/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 106 comments

Bad Terms

http://www.aaronkharris.com/bad-terms

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 30 comments

After Cash: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses a Bank Account

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-15/the-end-of-cash-and-the-rise-of-government-power

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 226 comments

Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films

http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/spike-lee-shares-his-nyu-teaching-list-of-87-essential-films-every-aspiring-director-should-see.html

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 219 comments

Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'ransomware' malvertising

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/major-sites-new-york-times-bbc-ransomware-malvertising

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple: U.S. founders would be 'appalled' by DOJ iPhone request

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-idUSKCN0WH2UI

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Procedural Voxel Rendering in WebGL

http://guillaumechereau.github.io/goxel/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 19 comments

Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/16/jeff-dean-on-large-scale-deep-learning-at-google.html

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 30 comments

Saving Hundreds of Hours with Google Compute Engine Per-Minute Billing

http://omerio.com/2016/03/16/saving-hundreds-of-hours-with-google-compute-engine-per-minute-billing/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 75 comments

Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/january/jobs-involving-routine-tasks-arent-growing

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 111 comments

Being a Female Developer

http://www.andela.com/blog/being-a-female-developer/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35818924

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Venture Capital’s Answer to High-Priced Housing: Dorms for Grown Ups

http://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-capitals-answer-to-high-priced-housing-dorms-for-grown-ups-1458034201

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 155 comments

Substance: a JavaScript library for web-based content editing

http://substance.io/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Deep or Shallow, NLP is breaking out

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/3/198856-deep-or-shallow-nlp-is-breaking-out/fulltext

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments

Klisp – An implementation of the Kernel programming language

http://klisp.org/

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 74 comments

ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator

http://www.asciimator.net/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/drm-non-aggression-table-w3c

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

FlappyBird hack using Deep Q-Learning

https://github.com/yenchenlin1994/DeepLearningFlappyBird

10 years ago

★ 6.7k Python MIT
96 upvotes – 13 comments

“Person of Interest”: The TV Show That Predicted Edward Snowden (2014)

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/person-of-interest-the-tv-show-that-predicted-edward-snowden

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Helping a dev who drinks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11301565

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

Nomad Million Container Challenge

https://www.hashicorp.com/c1m.html

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

Walt Whitman's Letter for a Dying Soldier to His Wife Discovered

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/12/470214579/walt-whitmans-letter-for-a-dying-soldier-to-his-wife-discovered

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

The Gang of Retirees Behind the Hatton Garden Heist

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/03/biggest-jewel-heist-in-british-history

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

North Korea sentences US tourist to 15 years in prison

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34724adee8bf4459b82365e4734f9c26/north-korea-sentences-us-tourist-15-years-prison

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/north-korea-sentences-u-s-student-to-15-years-xinhua-says

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

How I Built 180 Websites in 180 days and became a YC Fellowship Founder

https://zube.io/blog/how-i-built-180-websites-in-180-days-and-became-a-yc-fellowship-founder/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

ReGrid – Distributed realtime file storage with RethinkDB

https://github.com/internalfx/regrid

10 years ago

★ 248 JavaScript ISC
71 upvotes – 7 comments

Randomly-generated passwords still have to be legal strings

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160316-00/?p=93163

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 88 comments

Spacecraft Fire Experiment I

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1761.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Jarvis: Personal Assistant in Python

https://pythonspot.com/personal-assistant-jarvis-in-python/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160308-the-curse-of-the-people-who-cant-stop-making-puns

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/

10 years ago

★ 2.8k Python
65 upvotes – 49 comments

DIY Quants Who Ditched Wall Street for the Desert

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/barbarian-coders-at-the-gate-the-inexorable-rise-of-diy-quants

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 0 comments

Advertising 'accounts for half of data used to read articles'

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/16/ad-blocking-advertising-half-of-data-used-articles

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 63 comments

The Speed of a Unicorn

https://fleximize.com/unicorns/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments
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