top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-23

NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?

http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/

10 years ago

1725 upvotes – 854 comments

That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

https://www.techinasia.com/awkward-moment-apple-mocked-good-hardware-poor-people

10 years ago

1078 upvotes – 567 comments

I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

https://joreteg.com/blog/why-i-switched-to-android

10 years ago

841 upvotes – 502 comments

Julie Rubicon

https://www.facebook.com/notes/robin-sloan/julie-rubicon/985697811525170

10 years ago

784 upvotes – 131 comments

Google opens access to its speech recognition API

http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/google-opens-access-to-its-speech-recognition-api-going-head-to-head-with-nuance/

10 years ago

605 upvotes – 168 comments

An administrator accidentally deleted the production database

http://support.gliffy.com/entries/98911057--Gliffy-Online-System-Outage

10 years ago

533 upvotes – 331 comments

What I Learned Selling a Software Business

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_software_business

10 years ago

439 upvotes – 84 comments

Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/boom-the-startup-that-wants-to-build-supersonic-planes-just-signed-a-massive-deal-with-virgin/

10 years ago

428 upvotes – 165 comments

D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project

https://medium.com/@robbyrussell/d-oh-my-zsh-af99ca54212c#.ovixesd5v

10 years ago

380 upvotes – 97 comments

Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC

http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/03/21/apple-hypocritical-insensitive-pc-users-old-pc/

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 237 comments

HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/03/22/6nat/

10 years ago

364 upvotes – 78 comments

​Red Hat becomes first open-source company to make $2B

http://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-becomes-first-2b-open-source-company/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 83 comments

PostgreSQL Parallel Aggregate

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/parallel-aggregate/

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 45 comments

Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/22/intel-corp-officially-kills-tick-tock.aspx

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 128 comments

Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS

https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go MIT
247 upvotes – 43 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 70 comments

Alert: NPM modules hijacked

http://www.drinchev.com/blog/alert-npm-modules-hijacked/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 141 comments

Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping

http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/23/apple-cloud-infrastructure-servers-snooping/

10 years ago

231 upvotes – 107 comments

Machine Learning in the Cloud, with TensorFlow

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/03/machine-learning-in-cloud-with.html

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 14 comments

Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait

http://launch.blendle.com/hackernews.html

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 118 comments

A guide on how to be a Programmer (2002)

https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer

10 years ago

★ 16.2k
207 upvotes – 44 comments

Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

http://thecooperreview.com/google-amazon-facebook-secrets-hiring-best-people/

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 100 comments

Strong Link Found Between Dementia and Common Anticholinergic Drugs (2015)

http://www.dddmag.com/articles/2015/04/strong-link-found-between-dementia-common-anticholinergic-drugs

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 106 comments

Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf

http://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-inclusion

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 227 comments

All 60 startups that launched at Y Combinator Winter 2016 Demo Day 1

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/y-combinator-demo-day-winter-2016/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techcrunch%2Fstartups+%28TechCrunch+%C2%BB+Startups%29

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 86 comments

Meeting People Is Easy, but Hard

http://yonomitt.com/blog/2016/3/23/meeting-people-is-easy-but-hard

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 78 comments

A discussion about the breaking of the Internet

https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 121 comments

Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot

https://tay.ai/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 130 comments

BMW, Audi and Toyota cars can be unlocked and started with hacked radios

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/23/hackers-can-unlock-and-start-dozens-of-high-end-cars-through-the/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 115 comments

The text/markdown media type

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 63 comments

YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley

https://courses.platzi.com/blog/yc-lessons-latin-american-silicon-valley-y-combinator/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 37 comments

Exploring Rust (from C#)

http://nblumhardt.com/2016/03/exploring-rust/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 131 comments

Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized

https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

Sample programs in the Piet programming language

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Research on how to backdoor Diffie-Hellman

https://github.com/mimoo/Diffie-Hellman_Backdoor

10 years ago

★ 613 Python
106 upvotes – 22 comments

Race you to the kernel

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/03/race-you-to-kernel.html

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 7 comments

Celebrating Claude Shannon

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/celebrating-claude-shannon

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 5 comments

Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Open-Sourced

https://github.com/Microsoft/VS-PPT

10 years ago

★ 901 C#
100 upvotes – 20 comments

Caught for the First Time: The Early Flash of an Exploding Star

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

TensorFlow Implementation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

https://github.com/carpedm20/DCGAN-tensorflow

10 years ago

★ 7.1k JavaScript MIT
98 upvotes – 18 comments

Red Hat Is Now a $2B Open-Source Baby

http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/red-hat-revenue-2-billion-open-source/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

How Anxious Reappraisal Can Help Turn Anxiety into Productivity

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/can-three-words-turn-anxiety-into-success/474909/?single_page=true

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

Unicorn Logo Evolution

http://logoevolve.com/?hma

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks

https://backchannel.com/those-entry-level-startup-jobs-they-re-now-mostly-dead-ends-in-the-boondocks-af3b4066f5dd?gi=c797a91ba23#.ipwqgrpop

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 81 comments

Extensional Higher Order Prolog

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/extensional-higher-order-prolog/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6VP-2aIcSc

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 81 comments

FBI Contracts Cellebrite to Break into San Bernardino iPhone

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?amp;templateName=1.4.4&q=cellebrite+CONTRACTING_AGENCY_NAME%3A%22FEDERAL+BUREAU+OF+INVESTIGATION%22+PIID%3A%22DJF161200P0004424%22&sortBy=SIGNED_DATE&s=FPDSNG.COM&indexName=awardfull&desc=Y&&templateName=1.4&indexName=awardfull

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

How Tesla's Model 3 Could Conquer Low-End Luxury

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-22/how-tesla-model-3-can-complete-its-take-over-of-the-u-s-luxury-market

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 130 comments

StartCom will log all issued SSL certificates to public CT log servers

https://www.startssl.com/NewsDetails?date=20160323

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 53 comments
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