top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-17

Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is-said-to-put-boston-dynamics-robotics-unit-up-for-sale

10 years ago

830 upvotes – 387 comments

A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/government-error-just-revealed-snowden-target-lavabit-case/

10 years ago

795 upvotes – 164 comments

Tcpdump is amazing

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/03/16/tcpdump-is-amazing/

10 years ago

567 upvotes – 102 comments

Facebook is the new Excel

http://alexmuir.com/facebook-is-the-new-excel

10 years ago

565 upvotes – 250 comments

Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/technology/apple-encryption-engineers-if-ordered-to-unlock-iphone-might-resist.html

10 years ago

468 upvotes – 359 comments

Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/unmasking-startup-l-jackson-silicon-valley-s-favorite-twitter-persona

10 years ago

357 upvotes – 87 comments

2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

10 years ago

318 upvotes – 168 comments

Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

10 years ago

★ 2.4k Erlang Apache-2.0
312 upvotes – 91 comments

Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/3/17/in_deep_with_django_channels_the_future_of_real_time_apps_in_django

10 years ago

304 upvotes – 116 comments

The Single Piece of JavaScript on HN

http://blog.watchandcode.com/2016/03/17/the-single-piece-of-javascript-on-hacker-news/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 186 comments

The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS

https://backchannel.com/the-law-is-clear-the-fbi-cannot-make-apple-rewrite-its-os-9ae60c3bbc7b#.ipffol88i

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 98 comments

Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

http://blog.atom.io/2016/03/17/atom-1-6-and-1-7-beta.html

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 172 comments

US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code

http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 38 comments

Illegal Math

http://blog.prakashvenkat.com/illegal/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 100 comments

Elements of Clojure

http://elementsofclojure.com/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 43 comments

The birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/16/story-cities-day-3-baghdad-iraq-world-civilisation

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 45 comments

Go Game Guru – Learn all about the board game Go

https://gogameguru.com/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 85 comments

ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all

http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/17/protonmails-encrypted-email-is-now-available-to-all/

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 108 comments

Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/venezuela-to-shut-down-for-a-week-as-electricity-crisis-mounts

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 160 comments

Making a Go program 70% faster by avoiding common mistakes

http://blog.fmpwizard.com/blog/go_making_a_program_70_faster_by_avoiding_common_mistakes

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments

Recording of aerospace executive's speech leads to his resignation the next day

http://qz.com/641738/this-rocket-executive-pissed-off-everyone-in-space-and-lost-his-job-the-next-day/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 96 comments

Evidence that Alzheimer’s ‘lost memories’ may one day be recoverable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/17/mit-scientists-find-evidence-that-alzheimers-lost-memories-may-one-day-be-recoverable/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 20 comments

Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

http://blog.runnable.com/post/141200219146/runnable-sandboxes-full-stack-environments-for

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304255

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Limitless Worker Surveillance

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2746211

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

Dengue fever vaccine proves 100% effective in human trials

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/17/dengue-vaccine-human-trial-complete-protection

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

The Empire the World Forgot

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160309-the-empire-the-world-forgot

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

XKCD's StackSort Implemented in a Vim Regex

http://blog.robertelder.org/xkcd-stacksort-implemented-in-a-vim-regex/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 194 comments

Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework

http://pjreddie.com/darknet/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 38 comments

Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

http://jacquesmattheij.com/another-way-of-looking-at-lee-sedol-vs-alphago

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 111 comments

Type hints – a mediocre programmer's reaction (2015)

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-April/139267.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S. Campuses

http://www.wsj.com/articles/heavy-recruitment-of-chinese-students-sows-discord-on-u-s-campuses-1458224413

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 189 comments

C – Preliminary C2x Charter

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2021.htm

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 171 comments

Denver Police Caught Misusing Databases Got Light Punishments, Report Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/us/denver-police-criminal-databases-personal-use.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

When Should I Break My Application into Multiple Containers?

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/03/16/container-tidbits-when-should-i-break-my-application-into-multiple-containers/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

A Typical Day in a Blockchain-Enabled World Circa 2030

https://blockchainfutureslab.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/a-typical-day-in-a-blockchain-enabled-world/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/17/twitter-kills-tweetdeck-for-windows-automates-logins-for-tweetdeck-users/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Google pays $250M for Sunnyvale offices where 3,000 could work

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29646742/google-pays-250-million-sunnyvale-offices-where-3

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 110 comments

Mozilla Pushes the Web to New Levels as a Platform for Games

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/03/14/mozilla-pushes-the-web-to-new-levels-as-a-platform-for-games/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 57 comments

Detecting heart arrhythmias using machine learning and Apple Watch data

http://insighthealthdata.com/blog/HealthyBeats/index.html

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Tesla Motors Finally Acquired Tesla.com

https://namecorp.com/why-tesla-motors-finally-acquired-tesla-com/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 79 comments

IaaS vs. PaaS vs. CaaS  – Which Cloud Architecture Is Right for You?

https://blog.containership.io/iaas-vs-paas-vs-caas-which-cloud-architecture-is-right-for-you-part-1-c7bf3c48c70c

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

The Matrix Updated

http://www.bfilipek.com/2016/03/the-matrix-updated.html

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Tiny DSP Based Erlang / Linux Boards

https://lumenosys.com

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments
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