top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-15

GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/15/gitlab-acquires-software-chat-startup-gitter-will-open-source-the-code/

9 years ago

948 upvotes – 318 comments

How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails

https://www.nateberkopec.com/blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self-publishing-about-ruby-on-rails.html

9 years ago

539 upvotes – 175 comments

Tesla to raise $1B

http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-83703&CIK=1318605

9 years ago

498 upvotes – 318 comments

Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

https://tallys.github.io/color-theory/

9 years ago

491 upvotes – 69 comments

Trolling the Entire Internet

https://codeword.xyz/2017/03/15/that-time-i-trolled-the-entire-internet/

9 years ago

442 upvotes – 160 comments

Hiring without whiteboards

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

9 years ago

★ 50.5kJavaScriptMIT
423 upvotes – 363 comments

We’ve lost control of our personal data, including 33M NetProspex records

https://www.troyhunt.com/weve-lost-control-of-our-personal-data-including-33m-netprospex-records/

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 139 comments

German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015)

https://www.thelocal.de/20150615/there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 295 comments

An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016)

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/13/469852983/seeking-adventure-and-gold-crack-this-poem-and-head-outdoors

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 158 comments

Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 276 comments

Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC

https://launch.gust.com/blog/why-startup-delaware-c-corporation?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 169 comments

BeagleBone Blue – A complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer

https://beagleboard.org/blue

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 99 comments

Reverse Culture Shock

https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/c56075.htm

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 181 comments

Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/mar/15/stranger-in-the-woods-christopher-knight-hermit-maine

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 118 comments

Unsealed documents show Monsanto ghost wrote research papers on RoundUp

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html?mwrsm=Email

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 2 comments

Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14924238/rap-genius-web-annotator-chrome-extension-news

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 164 comments

Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start

https://backchannel.com/google-fiber-was-doomed-from-the-start-a5cdfacdd7f2#.rhxzu4r91

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 257 comments

Flexbox Cheatsheet

http://yoksel.github.io/flex-cheatsheet/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: An HTML/CSS/JS toggle switch with happy and sad emojis

http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/pen/WpjXVr

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 76 comments

Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes

http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/j9mm.html

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 36 comments

Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879335

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 95 comments

Deep learning with text: Learning when to skim and when to read

https://metamind.io/research/learning-when-to-skim-and-when-to-read

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 21 comments

Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-to-serve-up-chicken-strips-cultivated-from-cells-in-lab-1489570202

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 153 comments

Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing in Python

https://spacy.io/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 13 comments

Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend

https://www.videopixie.com/blog/crowdfunding-video-cost-benchmark-what-works-how-much-to-spend

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

Reducing power consumption for background tabs

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/03/reducing-power-consumption-for.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 60 comments

Omnispeak – A Commander Keen Reimplementation

https://davidgow.net/keen/omnispeak.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

Zen and the Art of Unit Testing

http://marcin-chwedczuk.github.io/zen-and-the-art-of-unit-testing

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 70 comments

The broken promise of Web Components

https://dmitriid.com/blog/2017/03/the-broken-promise-of-web-components/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 147 comments

CoreOS's rkt and Docker's containerd jointly donated to CNCF

https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-container-runtime-to-the-cncf.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 22 comments

Introducing FreeNAS Corral

http://www.freenas.org/blog/introducing-freenas-corral-an-open-source-hyper-converged-storage-platform/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder

https://www.dropbox.com/help/16

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 129 comments

Ten years with DragonFly BSD network stack [pdf]

https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/AsiaBSDCon%20-%20Dfly.pdf

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database

https://fauna.com/blog/faunadb-serverless-cloud-launch-day

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 159 comments

Problems with Kotlin

https://kukuruku.co/post/why-kotlin-sucks/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13877037

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 150 comments

Justice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-charging-russian-spies-and-criminal-hackers-for-yahoo-intrusion/2017/03/15/64b98e32-0911-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 41 comments

Great Progress with DX11 Games Support with WINE 2.3

http://boilingsteam.com/the-wine-revolution-is-on/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)

http://www.alternet.org/why-online-dating-sucks-men

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 133 comments

STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (2012)

https://github.com/svenvc/ston/blob/master/ston-paper.md

9 years ago

★ 143SmalltalkMIT
104 upvotes – 59 comments

Genetic variant accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years

http://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-brain-aging-6250

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

Finite state transducers in Go

https://github.com/couchbaselabs/vellum

9 years ago

★ 514GoApache-2.0
99 upvotes – 9 comments

John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better Learn to Code

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/john-maeda-want-survive-design-better-learn-code

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 60 comments

Vulnerability That Allowed Hackers to Take Over WhatsApp and Telegram Accounts

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/03/15/check-point-discloses-vulnerability-whatsapp-telegram/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Hacked Twitter Accounts Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/twitter-accounts-appear-to-be-hacked-with-swastikas-and-pro-erdogan-content

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: LogDNA – Set up Kubernetes logging with 2 kubectl commands

https://github.com/logdna/logdna-agent#kubernetes-logging

9 years ago

★ 141JavaScriptMIT
76 upvotes – 23 comments

Fintech Firms Get Chance to Apply for Banking License

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-firms-get-chance-to-apply-for-banking-license-1489599873?mod=e2tw

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments
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