top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-21

We only hire the trendiest

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

10 years ago

1615 upvotes – 716 comments

Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326011

10 years ago

958 upvotes – 224 comments

Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

http://boom.aero/

10 years ago

787 upvotes – 464 comments

Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5UlbdsX3uv8EtDzNkNu8EUgFOu3RQQqWg3L9TuSep0/viewform

10 years ago

663 upvotes – 361 comments

iPhone SE

http://www.apple.com/iphone-se/

10 years ago

567 upvotes – 715 comments

Legalize It All

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/?single=1

10 years ago

527 upvotes – 273 comments

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

http://www.sanandreasanimalcams.com/

10 years ago

492 upvotes – 109 comments

U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/apple-fbi-hearing-unlock-iphone.html

10 years ago

408 upvotes – 230 comments

Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools Attached

http://www.thenation.com/article/universities-are-becoming-billion-dollar-hedge-funds-with-schools-attached/

10 years ago

397 upvotes – 252 comments

Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Node.js-on-Google-App-Engine-goes-beta.html

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 102 comments

Why we should fear a cashless world

http://www.theguardian.com/money/commentisfree/2016/mar/21/fear-cashless-world-contactless?CMP=twt_gu

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 248 comments

My Passion Was My Weak Spot

http://jacquesmattheij.com/my-passion-was-my-weak-spot

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 167 comments

Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]#[email protected]

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 62 comments

DeepMind Challenges for StarCraft

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenWeber/20160314/267956/DeepMind_Challenges_for_StarCraft.php

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 133 comments

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2013)

http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 85 comments

Reserving your Model 3

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/reserving-model-3/

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 194 comments

Swift 2.2 Released

https://swift.org/blog/swift-2-2-released/

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 115 comments

Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co

https://www.metachris.com/2016/03/free-transactional-email-services-the-best-alternatives-to-mandrill/

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 138 comments

Powa: The startup that fell to earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35860814

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue

http://www.popsci.com/scientists-grow-transplantable-hearts-with-stem-cells

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 35 comments

Non-nullable types for TypeScript

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/7140

10 years ago

★ 108.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0
185 upvotes – 32 comments

Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/johns-hopkins-researchers-discovered-encryption-flaw-in-apples-imessage/2016/03/20/a323f9a0-eca7-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 43 comments

Apple introduces the iPhone SE

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/iphone-se-apple-small-iphone-seo-is-fun/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 24 comments

Klondike: Solitaire for Mac, continually updated for 32 years by same man

http://www.casteel.org/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 11 comments

What is the real reason we sleep?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160317-what-is-the-real-reason-we-sleep

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 84 comments

StartSSL domain validation vulnerability

http://oalmanna.blogspot.com/2016/03/startssl-domain-validation.html

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 73 comments

Apache PDFBox – A Java PDF Library

http://pdfbox.apache.org/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 56 comments

Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/attack-of-week-apple-imessage.html

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments

WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad Defections”

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/711135400983699456

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 54 comments

The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Extracting image metadata at scale

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/extracting-image-metadata-at-scale.html

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 17 comments

Sorting a Billion Numbers with Julia

http://mikeinnes.github.io/2016/03/21/sorting.html

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 22 comments

iPad Pro – 9.7-inch

http://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 133 comments

Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/almost-everyone-is-doing-the-api-economy-wrong/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Py1040 – A U.S. personal income tax calculator

https://github.com/b-k/py1040

10 years ago

★ 338 Python GPL-2.0
113 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Micro – a microservice toolkit

https://blog.micro.mu/2016/03/20/micro.html

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Advanced Swift

https://www.objc.io/books/advanced-swift/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments
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