top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-30

Ubuntu on Windows

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1

10 years ago

2049 upvotes – 901 comments

React Native for OS X

https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop

10 years ago

★ 11.2k JavaScript MIT
637 upvotes – 256 comments

Microsoft Bot Framework

https://dev.botframework.com/

10 years ago

627 upvotes – 134 comments

Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

10 years ago

535 upvotes – 476 comments

Netdata – Linux performance monitoring, done right

https://github.com/firehol/netdata

10 years ago

★ 78.6k C GPL-3.0
477 upvotes – 87 comments

Introducing Safari Technology Preview

https://webkit.org/blog/6017/introducing-safari-technology-preview/

10 years ago

431 upvotes – 165 comments

Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

http://orgmode.org/

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 205 comments

Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/29/your-iphone-just-got-a-lot-less-secure-and-the-fbi-is-to-blame/

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 239 comments

The Trouble with Tor

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 172 comments

Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-with-linus-torvalds

10 years ago

304 upvotes – 155 comments

Git 2.8.0 released

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/28/436

10 years ago

278 upvotes – 55 comments

The company that bribed the world

http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-1/the-company-that-bribed-the-world.html

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 77 comments

Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/be-very-afraid-hell-has-frozen-over-bash-is-coming-to-windows-10/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 6 comments

Visual C++ for Linux Development

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-development/

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 93 comments

Immutability is not enough

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/six/immutability-is-not-enough

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 123 comments

Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Records Show

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/google-has-also-been-ordered-to-help-unlock-phones-records-show-1459342847-lMyQjAxMTE2MDMxMDkzNjAwWj

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 77 comments

For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies

http://blog.hackerrank.com/for-anyone-who-has-been-turned-down-by-38-companies-120-interviews/

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 294 comments

Show HN: MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data

https://maphub.net/

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 81 comments

Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/antarctica-at-risk-of-runaway-melting-20189

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 417 comments

The Basics of Web Application Security

http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 41 comments

Silicon Valley Asks Mostly for Developers with Degrees

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/30/dropouts-need-not-apply-silicon-valley-asks-mostly-for-developers-with-degrees/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 287 comments

Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go

http://allegro.tech/2016/03/writing-fast-cache-service-in-go.html

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 88 comments

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

https://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2015-update2-vs

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

Web Scraping to Create Open Data

https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/03/30/web-scraping-to-create-open-data/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 55 comments

Microsoft Build 2016 live keynote

https://channel9.msdn.com/LiveEmbedPlayer/Build2016?rnd=1459350446233

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 91 comments

Asana

http://blog.samaltman.com/asana

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 118 comments

Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-next-steps-20160330-story.html

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 119 comments

Microsoft Cognitive Services

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 25 comments

A Saner Windows Command Line

http://futurice.com/blog/a-saner-windows-command-line-part-1

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 161 comments

Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/exercise-makes-our-muscles-work-better-with-age/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 54 comments

How to create an AI startup – convince some humans to be your training set

http://simplystatistics.org/2016/03/30/humans-as-training-set/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

SpaceX is launching an inflatable space habitat

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/29/spacex-is-launching-an-inflatable-space-habitat/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 61 comments

CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-skitters-beta/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 72 comments

The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill

http://nautil.us/blog/the-loophole-in-the-hedonic-treadmill

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 127 comments

A day in the life of a young black male engineering “coding” student

https://storify.com/rodneysampson/adayinthelife

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Protected Branches Improvements

https://github.com/blog/2137-protected-branches-improvements

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

Towards Machine Intelligence by IBM Research

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08262

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unaoil-bribery-scandal-corruption_us_56fa2b06e4b014d3fe2408b9

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 73 comments

Connect from Square

https://connect.squareup.com/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 1 comments

Zen Magnets Wins CPSC Case

http://zenmagnets.com/march-2016-update-whoa-we-won/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201603/why_i_dont_use_css_preprocessors

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 123 comments

Blockchains, Teens and Hedge-Fund Hotels

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-30/blockchains-teens-and-hedge-fund-hotels

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/desktop-app-converter/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

A focus on elite schools ignores the issues most college students face

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shut-up-about-harvard/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

Ethereum Solidity Available in Microsoft Visual Studio [pdf]

http://consensys.net/static/MSVS.pdf

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Algorithms as Microservices

http://blog.algorithmia.com/2016/03/algorithms-as-microservices/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

1.7 petabytes and 850M files lost, and how we survived it

https://csc.fi/web/blog/post/-/blogs/the-largest-unplanned-outage-in-years-and-how-we-survived-it

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Java for Everything (2014)

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: Which personal investing tools do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11387384

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

George Orwell in Spain

http://www.signature-reads.com/2016/03/george-orwell-in-spain-where-he-first-fully-found-his-voice/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Nyuzi: An experimental FPGA multicore GPGPU processor

https://github.com/jbush001/NyuziProcessor

10 years ago

★ 2.1k C Apache-2.0
88 upvotes – 31 comments

Using Spark and Zeppelin to Process Big Data on Kubernetes 1.2

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/03/using-Spark-and-Zeppelin-to-process-Big-Data-on-Kubernetes.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

How I Made a Cheap PCB

http://www.keacher.com/1490/how-i-made-a-cheap-pcb/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 81 comments

Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35888535

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

Erlang gen_server reloaded: manage server behaviour and metrics in one place

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-gen_server-reloaded.html?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=HN&utm_campaign=gen_serverBlog

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329273

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Bash is coming to Windows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390343

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments
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