top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-19

Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust

http://www.redox-os.org/

10 years ago

618 upvotes – 202 comments

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

10 years ago

462 upvotes – 120 comments

Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/

10 years ago

398 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours

http://honestsalary.com/

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 191 comments

10M Concurrent Websockets

http://goroutines.com/10m

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 80 comments

South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'

http://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock-1.19595

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 95 comments

Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist

http://news.softpedia.com/news/security-researcher-goes-missing-after-investigating-bangladesh-bank-cyber-heist-501905.shtml

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 22 comments

Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANNMO++6tPiwBv2OKcy-HhiYmByhL+XSSUH3NDvOs3G1VVg++g@mail.gmail.com

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 91 comments

FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.txt

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 64 comments

Internet Draft: SMTP Strict Transport Security

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-margolis-smtp-sts-00

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 99 comments

Some Rookie Mistakes in Go

http://engineroom.teamwork.com/go-learn/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 84 comments

Serious Sam’s Serious Engine source code released

http://www.croteam.com/serious-sam-source-code-released/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Google Wants to Sell Its Robots: Reality Is Hard

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-18/why-google-wants-to-sell-its-robots-reality-is-hard

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 118 comments

Arguments Supporting Warrantless Surveillance Wither When Exposed to Sunlight

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/once-again-arguments-supporting-warrantless-surveillance-shrivel-when-exposed

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

The Amish Effect

http://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/the-amish-effect-unique-cultural-strengths-help-plain-sect-businesses/article_ba60c8e4-e6dc-11e5-9cc7-73775e680585.html

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 67 comments

Giving Up on TDD

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/03/19/GivingUpOnTDD.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 110 comments

Arxiv Sanity Preserver

http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

H1B Visa Salary Database

http://h1bdata.info

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 39 comments

Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, to Global Trade

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/business/economy/carrier-workers-see-costs-not-benefits-of-global-trade.html

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 206 comments

Motion Design Is the Future of UI

https://blog.prototypr.io/motion-design-is-the-future-of-ui-fc83ce55c02f

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Somali Law

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Legal_Systems_Draft/Systems/SomaliLawChapter.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

Sandstorm's security track record, and what it means for self-hosting

https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-02-29-security-track-record

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

NY bill would provide tax credit for open source contributors

https://opensource.com/government/16/3/ny-bill-tax-credit-open-source-contributors

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

On moving code from C# to F#

http://www.felienne.com/archives/4682

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

A Rising Number of Startups Reckon They'll Never Go Public

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-18/a-rising-number-of-startups-reckon-they-ll-never-go-public

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

UCB CS294: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes

http://www.wolczko.com/CS294/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

The Secrets of the Wave Pilots

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Geoff Hinton on AlphaGo and the Future of AI

http://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-meaning-of-alphago-the-ai-program-that-beat-a-go-champ/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Higher-Order Symbolic Execution

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04817

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05279

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Inheritance Is Terrible

http://lionelbarrow.com/2016/03/19/inheritance-is-terrible/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 94 comments

Announcing Scala.js 0.6.8

http://www.scala-js.org/news/2016/03/18/announcing-scalajs-0.6.8/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Do jobs run in families?

https://research.facebook.com/blog/do-jobs-run-in-families-/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

UX Issues That Will Make Or Break Self-Driving Cars

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3054330/innovation-by-design/the-secret-ux-issues-that-will-make-or-break-autonomous-cars

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

$115M verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/115-million-verdict-in-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-lawsuit-could-wipe-out-gawker

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 64 comments
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