top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-28

Ask HN: Is S3 down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673

9 years ago

2589 upvotes – 1055 comments

Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity

http://antirez.com/news/112

9 years ago

782 upvotes – 312 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-w-joins-family/

9 years ago

653 upvotes – 309 comments

WordPress on .NET

http://www.peachpie.io/2017/02/wordpress-announcement.html

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 164 comments

YouTube TV

https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 280 comments

In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/in-video-uber-ceo-argues-with-driver-over-falling-fares

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 315 comments

Google Goes Public with Unpatched Microsoft Edge and IE Vulnerability

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1011

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 136 comments

What makes WebAssembly fast?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fast/

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 230 comments

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 226 comments

Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken job interview process

https://theoutline.com/post/1166/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 226 comments

BlueCoat and other proxies hang up during TLS 1.3

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=694593

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 210 comments

Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)

https://mmikowski.github.io/the_lie/

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 215 comments

Vulnerabilities in Password-Manager Apps

https://team-sik.org/trent_portfolio/password-manager-apps/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 113 comments

We should kill the 40-hour work week

https://crew.co/blog/why-you-shouldnt-work-set-hours/

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 270 comments

Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech

http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-production-quality-text-speech-system-constructed-entirely-deep-neural-networks/

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 77 comments

JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers Many Hours

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 98 comments

A cartoon intro to WebAssembly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webassembly/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 73 comments

Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley

http://www.fast.ai/2017/02/27/not-just-silicon-valley/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 20 comments

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?

http://lemire.me/blog/2017/02/28/how-many-floating-point-numbers-are-in-the-interval-01/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 153 comments

Design a Perfect Search Box

https://uxplanet.org/design-a-perfect-search-box-b6baaf9599c

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: HTTPLab – An interactive web server

https://github.com/gchaincl/httplab

9 years ago

★ 4.1k Go MIT
171 upvotes – 23 comments

I miss Delphi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752362

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 191 comments

Are We Different People in Different Languages?

http://lithub.com/are-we-different-people-in-different-languages/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 146 comments

WebAssembly consensus and end of Browser Preview

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017Feb/0002.html

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Store.js v2.0 – Cross-browser storage for all use cases

https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js

9 years ago

★ 14k JavaScript MIT
162 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Amazon's data centers are in spy country (2016)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 33 comments

Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?

http://mathoverflow.net/q/182215/85415

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: Sedy, a GitHub Bot Bringing Linux Sed to Code Reviews

https://marmelab.com/blog/2017/02/28/sedy-the-serverless-github-bot-which-fix-typos-for-you.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

The Privacy Revolution that never came

https://journal.standardnotes.org/the-privacy-revolution-that-never-came-23b5855df153#.h4qiif6b0

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 144 comments

Female engineer sues Tesla, describing a culture of 'pervasive harassment'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/tesla-female-engineer-lawsuit-harassment-discrimination

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments

Build a crawler to crawl million pages with only one machine in just 2 hours

https://medium.com/@tonywangcn/how-to-build-a-scaleable-crawler-to-crawl-million-pages-with-a-single-machine-in-just-2-hours-ab3e238d1c22

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

A JavaScript deep learning and reinforcement learning library

https://github.com/janhuenermann/neurojs

9 years ago

★ 4.3k JavaScript MIT
132 upvotes – 28 comments

QEMU: virtfs permits guest to access entire host filesystem

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1035&can=6&q=

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing This Country Today?’

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/27/us/politics/most-important-problem-gallup-polling-question.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Wtrace – A command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETW

https://github.com/lowleveldesign/wtrace

9 years ago

★ 692 C# MIT
130 upvotes – 32 comments

AWS status updates not working due to S3

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Stop Fabricating Travel Security Advice

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/stop-fabricating-travel-security-advice-35259bf0e869

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 87 comments

The PRPL Pattern

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/prpl-pattern/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘faster than at any time since ice age’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/shell-film-warning-climate-change-rate-faster-than-end-ice-age

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

Two-part Rubik's algorithms

https://nedbatchelder.com/text/rubiks_algorithms.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

J.C. Penney’s troubles are reflected in satellite images of its parking lots

https://theoutline.com/post/1169/jc-penney-satellite-imaging

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments
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