top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-04

A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-eleventy-what-a-deep-dive-into-why-wi-fi-kind-of-sucks/

9 years ago

534 upvotes – 235 comments

A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170302-the-plane-so-good-its-still-in-production-after-60-years

9 years ago

509 upvotes – 186 comments

What happens when you swipe a credit card

https://tech.affirm.com/deep-dive-payments-60f5d17f6c71

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 171 comments

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

9 years ago

364 upvotes – 81 comments

A blockchain in 200 lines of code

https://medium.com/@lhartikk/a-blockchain-in-200-lines-of-code-963cc1cc0e54#.ccg982xfi

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 44 comments

Nintendo Switch Teardown

https://www.fictiv.com/blog/posts/nintendo-switch-teardown

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 184 comments

PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/technology/paypal-giving-fund-lawsuit.html

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 83 comments

A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode

http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 60 comments

White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/03/white-house-proposes-steep-budget-cut-to-leading-climate-science-agency/

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 209 comments

Partial WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain

https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-03/msg00044.html

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 101 comments

Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

https://github.com/mathieudutour/scroll-through-time

9 years ago

★ 723 JavaScript MIT
187 upvotes – 31 comments

How Uber could end up as Silicon Valley's most spectacular crash

http://www.newsweek.com/uber-turn-silicon-valley-spectacular-crash-563716?rx=us

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 183 comments

Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances

https://gokrazy.github.io/?hn

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 30 comments

How to Steal a River

https://nytimes.com/2017/03/01/magazine/sand-mining-india-how-to-steal-a-river.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 72 comments

Decline of the Dad Job

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/decline-of-the-dad-job/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 172 comments

Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic

https://adsense.googleblog.com/2017/03/understanding-account-suspensions-due.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 104 comments

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach

http://gpbnews.org/post/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-loses-bonus-and-stock-award-over-security-breach

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: Good public speaking course/resources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790847

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 39 comments

What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It

http://lifehacker.com/what-causes-burnout-and-how-to-overcome-it-1792910323

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Pixel Map Generator

http://pixelmap.amcharts.com/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 6 comments

The Vatican’s Latinist

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Vatican-s-Latinist-8618

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street (2012)

https://www.ifa.com/articles/hard_look_wall_street/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/the-most-desirable-passports-on-earth-don-t-include-america

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 116 comments

12,000 startups are being created every day in China [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QexL6F-W4Ss

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

Rust Faster Than C? Not So Fast…

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/03/03/rust-faster-than-c-not-so-fast/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Is naming things really that hard?

http://wade.be/development/2017/03/03/naming-things.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

How is news marked as disputed on Facebook?

https://www.facebook.com/help/733019746855448

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 161 comments

Relevant XKCD

http://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

I’m Old, Part XLI: Trolling Creative People

http://plinth.org/techtalk/?p=300

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Syntax is the last thing you should design

https://boxbase.org/entries/2017/feb/6/syntax-advice/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

U.S. Airport Pat-Downs Are About to Get More Invasive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/u-s-airport-pat-downs-are-about-to-get-more-invasive

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

JavaScript-Stack-from-Scratch tutorial V2 released

https://github.com/verekia/js-stack-from-scratch/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

9 years ago

★ 20.2k JavaScript MIT
72 upvotes – 11 comments

Square Buys OrderAhead

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-01/square-buys-orderahead-to-grab-pickup-business-at-restaurants

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments
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