top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-10

Password Rules Are Bullshit

https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/

9 years ago

How to never complete anything

http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/

9 years ago

Ask HN: How do you set prices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282

9 years ago

SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/batsbzx/2017/34-80206.pdf

9 years ago

FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/fbi-used-best-buys-geek-squad-to-increase-secret-public-surveillance-7950030

9 years ago

Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106424/windows-10-tip-turn-off-file-explorer-advertising

9 years ago

John Carmack is suing ZeniMax

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/oculus-cto-john-carmack-is-suing-zenimax-for-22-5-million/

9 years ago

Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

9 years ago

Always Free Usage Limits

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits

9 years ago

Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

https://ondras.github.io/sleeping-beauty/

9 years ago

South Korean President Impeached

http://khnews.kheraldm.com/view.php?ud=20170310000352&md=20170310112254_BL

9 years ago

Goodbye Mac App Store

http://www.stclairsoft.com/blog/2017/03/02/goodbye-mac-app-store/

9 years ago

A response to “How to never complete anything”

https://neilonsoftware.com/2017/03/10/my-response-to-how-to-never-complete-anything/

9 years ago

Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]

http://abstract.ups.edu/download/aata-20160809-sage-7.3.pdf

9 years ago

Planet Explorer Beta

https://www.planet.com/

9 years ago

Data structures and algorithms problems in C++ using STL

http://www.techiedelight.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-interview-questions-stl/

9 years ago

After CIA leak, Intel Security releases detection tool for EFI rootkits

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3179348/security/after-cia-leak-intel-security-releases-detection-tool-for-efi-rootkits.html?sf61342414=1

9 years ago

The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1241554625959357/the-end-to-end-refresh-of-our-server-hardware-fleet/

9 years ago

Musk Bets He Can Fix Aussie Power Woes in 100 Days or It’s Free

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-10/musk-bets-he-can-fix-aussie-power-woes-in-100-days-or-it-s-free

9 years ago

Mirror grinding

http://www.scopemaking.net/mirror/mirror.htm

9 years ago

Why Trello Failed to Build a $1B Business

https://producthabits.com/why-trello-failed-to-build-a-1-billion-business

9 years ago

Deep Learning enables hearing aid wearers to pick out a voice in a crowded room

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/deep-learning-reinvents-the-hearing-aid

9 years ago

Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ramses-ii-statue-found-cairo

9 years ago

How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/03/10/how-to-scale-postgresql-on-aws/

9 years ago

PolyConf – Programming conference for polyglot and full stack programmers

https://17.polyconf.com/

9 years ago

Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating

https://medium.com/planet-arkency/testing-is-a-separate-skill-and-thats-why-you-are-frustrated-7239b1500a6c#.s23ovtlo5

9 years ago

I bought my daughter heroin

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39212295

9 years ago

Why Dentistry Is Separate from Medicine

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/why-dentistry-is-separated-from-medicine/518979/?single_page=true

9 years ago

NASA finds lunar spacecraft that vanished 8 years ago

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/10/health/nasa-chandrayaan-spacecraft-found/

9 years ago

Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio

https://www.thisnumber.rocks/

9 years ago

Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens

https://theconversation.com/children-prefer-to-read-books-on-paper-rather-than-screens-74171

9 years ago

Ask HN: What SaaS customer service tools does your startup use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13837664

9 years ago

Https hurts users far away from the server

https://antoine.finkelstein.fr/https-is-hurting-users-far-away-from-your-servers-and-what-to-do-about-it-5b143080488#.sxjb81794

9 years ago

Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2015/12/29/revisiting-64-bit-ness-in-visual-studio-and-elsewhere/

9 years ago

Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high

https://www.christianoliveira.com/blog/en/web-analytics/why-the-bounce-rate-of-my-amp-pages-is-so-high/

9 years ago

Id as Super-Ego: The Creation of Duke Nukem 3D (2001) [pdf]

http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/id%20as%20Super-Ego-%20The%20Creation%20of%20Duke%20Nukem%203D.pdf

9 years ago

A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1

9 years ago

Porting Ruby to Crystal

http://squarism.com/2017/02/25/porting-ruby-to-crystal/

9 years ago

US spies still haven't told Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/nsa-spy-law-up-for-renewal-but-feds-wont-say-how-many-americans-targeted/

9 years ago

What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make?

https://shubhamjain.co/2017/03/08/what-is-the-highest-salary-can-a-programmer-make/

9 years ago

A History of Reverse-Engineering Game Cartridges

http://tedium.co/2017/03/09/video-games-reverse-engineering-tengen-accolade

9 years ago

CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos for the first time

https://qz.com/929773/crispr-has-been-used-to-genetically-modify-viable-human-embryos-for-the-first-time/

9 years ago

The Cloud’s Software: A Look Inside Backblaze

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-clouds-software-a-look-inside-backblaze/

9 years ago

Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01109

9 years ago

Books that Aaron Swartz read, loved and hated

http://shelfjoy.com/shelfjoy/all-the-books-aaron-swartz-loved-hated-wrote-and-blogged-about

9 years ago

W3 Total Cache Nginx – Root Escalation

https://blog.tarq.io/root-your-box-with-w3tc-and-nginx/

9 years ago

Hot chillies might be good for us

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39217603

9 years ago