top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-22

Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onedrivefb-mso_o365brs/onedrive-for-business-open-is-very-slow-on-linux/3d33dc1b-3cc3-4c24-9998-9ab96bad31fc

9 years ago

1423 upvotes – 469 comments

Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/03/update-on-html5-video-for-netflix.html

9 years ago

537 upvotes – 508 comments

Research Debt

http://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

9 years ago

508 upvotes – 136 comments

Gitlab 9.0

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad and iPhone

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/22/apple-has-acquired-workflow-a-powerful-automation-tool-for-ipad-and-iphone/

9 years ago

499 upvotes – 147 comments

Secret colours of the Commodore 64

http://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/

9 years ago

398 upvotes – 95 comments

YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

https://blog.yalabot.com/i-got-sick-of-commoditized-content-for-entrepreneurs-heres-what-i-started-watching-instead-cdf9a5b28652#.50ev0pbn0

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 83 comments

Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017

http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/

9 years ago

342 upvotes – 163 comments

Text Editor Performance Comparison

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-perf

9 years ago

★ 680C
330 upvotes – 247 comments

Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that doesn't suck

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13934624

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 376 comments

The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s “exhaustion doctrine”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/patents-are-big-part-why-we-cant-own-nice-things-supreme-court-should-fix

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 136 comments

Golden powers are nearly integers

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/03/22/golden-powers-are-nearly-integers/

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 36 comments

Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3208

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 269 comments

Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

https://medium.com/@andrewng/opening-a-new-chapter-of-my-work-in-ai-c6a4d1595d7b

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 74 comments

How I Start: Go (2014)

http://howistart.org/posts/go/1/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 121 comments

Breaks Observed in Rover Wheel Treads

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6785

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 183 comments

Two major US technology firms 'tricked out of $100M'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39351215

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 120 comments

Programming won’t be automated, or it already has been

https://mortoray.com/2017/03/22/programming-wont-be-automated-or-it-already-has-been/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 218 comments

Medium releases Memberships

https://blog.medium.com/upgrade-your-medium-924b74c36552

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 137 comments

Software Engineering Institute Makes CERT C++ Coding Standard Freely Available

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news/article.cfm?assetid=495412&article=081&year=2017

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 24 comments

Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

http://lbry.io

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 92 comments

The New York Times’ most famous tweet is ten years old

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/word-up-this-is-the-story-behind-the-new-york-times-most-famous-tweet-which-is-10-years-old-today/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 19 comments

The relationship between our moods and sunlight

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/is-the-dark-really-making-me-sad/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 54 comments

Redis as a JSON store

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-as-a-json-store/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 113 comments

Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (2012)

http://thecodist.com/article/yes_i_still_want_to_be_doing_this_at_56

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 114 comments

Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/21/demo-day-y-combinator/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 124 comments

High-performance employees need quieter work spaces

https://qz.com/936077/high-performance-employees-need-quieter-work-spaces-but-companies-arent-making-the-effort/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 126 comments

Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks?

https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/why-is-so-much-memory-needed-for-deep-neural-networks

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 57 comments

Bcachefs: “the COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data”

http://bcachefs.org/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 104 comments

Hackers Stole My Website

https://medium.com/@ramshackleglam/hackers-stole-my-website-and-i-pulled-off-a-30-000-sting-operation-to-get-it-back-143d43ee3742

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 138 comments

Modern C++ and Lisp Programming Style

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/advanced-c-lisp/convergence-of-modern-cplusplus-and-lisp/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

AT&T, other U.S. advertisers quit Google, YouTube over extremist videos

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/22/att-pulls-google-youtube-ads-over-offensive-content/99497194/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 109 comments

Arachnids eat as much animal food as all humans

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21718858-arachnids-eat-much-animal-food-all-humans-earth-ecological

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 86 comments

Performance bugs – the dark matter of programming bugs

https://www.forwardscattering.org/post/49

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 107 comments

USPS Informed Delivery – Digital Images of Front of Mailpieces

https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 139 comments

Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?

https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/what-does-machine-learning-look-like

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

London-Paris electric flight 'in decade'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39350058

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 159 comments

Reconsider (2015)

https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.nig7picg7

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

Reid Hoffman has joined Microsoft's board

https://backchannel.com/now-we-know-why-microsoft-bought-linkedin-dad742b3dd87

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

The Cracking Monolith: Forces That Call for Microservices

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/03/21/cracking-monolith-forces-that-call-for-microservices.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 52 comments

QEMU: user-to-root privesc inside VM via bad translation caching

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1122

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13931841

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 99 comments

Efficient File Copying on Linux

https://eklitzke.org/efficient-file-copying-on-linux

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

From Student Side Project to Startup

https://blog.ycombinator.com/from-student-side-project-to-startup

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

How long does it take to make a context switch? (2010)

http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-make-context.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Why OO Matters in F#

https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/why-oo-matters-in-f/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

Approaches to Natural Language Processing and Understanding

http://www.topbots.com/4-different-approaches-natural-language-processing-understanding

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

https://medium.com/@andrewng/opening-a-new-chapter-of-my-work-in-ai-c6a4d1595d7b#.t635fvblk

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

The myth of the pristine Amazon rainforest

https://www.mpg.de/11147178/amazon-rainforest-pre-columbian

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/machine-owned-enterprises.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 97 comments

What Happens If You Break an Artwork?

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-break-artwork

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

What is a decibel?

https://tomhazledine.com/what-is-a-decibel-anyway/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

What I learned from being a web developer for 17 years

https://community.risingstack.com/ive-been-a-web-developer-for-17-years-and-this-is-what-i-learned-daniel-khan/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

The real Casanova

https://aeon.co/essays/is-there-more-to-the-legendary-lover-than-his-reputation

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 2 comments

Pam-ussh may be tricked into using another logged in user's ssh-agent

https://hackerone.com/reports/204802

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Tunneling HTTP Over NFC on Android Using Host Card Emulation

https://blog.classycode.com/tunneling-http-over-nfc-on-android-using-host-card-emulation-907947a721ac

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Impossible Foods says it is close to finishing a large-scale production facility

https://qz.com/939320/a-startup-says-it-can-now-produce-enough-for-4-million-meatless-burgers-a-month/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 62 comments

Sketchpad III Demo [video] (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments
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