top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-20

Polymagnets

http://www.polymagnet.com/polymagnets/

10 years ago

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

10 years ago

Thank you for ad blocking

http://thankyouforadblocking.com/

10 years ago

Toonz Goes Open Source

http://www.toonzpremium.com/#!news/aawrs

10 years ago

$ cat ~/myfile | curl -X PUT --upload-file “-” https://transfer.sh/myfile.txt

http://transfer.sh

10 years ago

Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf

10 years ago

Microsoft won't stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-one-thing-microsoft-needs-to-do-to-gain-real-open-source-trust/

10 years ago

Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside

http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html

10 years ago

NetHack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play

http://thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com/

10 years ago

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers

https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md

10 years ago

★ 17.9k C++ Apache-2.0

GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

http://web.archive.org/web/20160318143021/https://github.com/

10 years ago

Bypassing Antivirus with Ten Lines of Code

http://www.attactics.org/2016/03/bypassing-antivirus-with-10-lines-of.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Localkube – zero to Kubernetes 1.2 in one command

https://github.com/redspread/spread#localkube

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go Apache-2.0

Becoming an expert through deliberate practice

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2016/03/expert/

10 years ago

Snowden: Privacy can't depend on corporations standing up to the government

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3046135/security/edward-snowden-privacy-cant-depend-on-corporations-standing-up-to-the-government.html

10 years ago

A Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design and more

https://github.com/vydd/sketch

10 years ago

★ 1.4k Common Lisp MIT

Curl is 18 years old tomorrow

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/03/19/curl-is-18-years-old-tomorrow/

10 years ago

Security Checklist

https://securitychecklist.org/

10 years ago

U.S. government sets record for failures to find files when asked

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUNSHINE_WEEK_FOIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-18-11-37-47

10 years ago

Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/mobile-home_massive-zurich-building-completes-19-hour-trip/32745688

10 years ago

DGraph – Scalable, Distributed, Low-Latency, High-Throughput Graph Database

http://dgraph.io/

10 years ago

Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/20/underground-berlin-secret-subway-bedrooms-airbnb

10 years ago

Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/03/20/legal-marijuana-sales-forecast-hit-23b-4-years/82046018/

10 years ago

Jitted LLVM IR on the JVM [pdf]

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-01/slides/Sulong.pdf

10 years ago

Full-Stack Redux Tutorial

http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial.html

10 years ago

Searchkit 0.8 – React UI Components for Elasticsearch

https://blog.searchkit.co/searchkit-0-8-2c6432f9b4ac#.jds6mrkql

10 years ago

FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silverpush’ Code

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/03/ftc-issues-warning-letters-app-developers-using-silverpush-code

10 years ago

LuaJIT 2.0 intellectual property disclosure (2009)

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00089.html

10 years ago

How a former lobbyist became the broadband industry’s worst nightmare

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/how-a-former-lobbyist-became-the-broadband-industrys-worst-nightmare/1/

10 years ago

NPR decides it won’t promote its podcasts or NPR One on air

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/npr-decides-it-wont-promote-its-podcasts-or-npr-one-on-air/

10 years ago

WebPlotDigitizer – Extract data from plots, images, and maps

http://arohatgi.info/WebPlotDigitizer/

10 years ago

Simple coroutines for games in C++

http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2016/3/20/coroutines-for-games

10 years ago

How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (2004)

http://members.shaw.ca/tfrisen/how_much_oxygen_for_a_person.htm

10 years ago

A chilling mathematical model of inequality

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3665416-155/buchanan-a-chilling-mathematical-model-of

10 years ago

Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release

http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-blockchain-homestead/

10 years ago

Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets

http://www.datasets.co/

10 years ago

Show HN: Rhine – A typed Elixir-inspired language on LLVM

https://github.com/artagnon/rhine?

10 years ago

★ 166 C++ MIT

Medicine’s Uncomfortable Relationship with Math (2014)

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1861033

10 years ago

Banned by Amazon for returning faulty goods

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazon-returning-faulty-goods-blocked-credit-balance

10 years ago

The American Economy Is in a Funk, But Not for the Reasons We Think

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-growth/

10 years ago

Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_1-6?nodeId=201994710&qid=1458317761&sr=1-6&ie=UTF8

10 years ago

Apple vs. The F.B.I.: How the Case Could Play Out

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/technology/apple-vs-the-fbi-how-the-case-could-play-out.html

10 years ago