top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-24

Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/03/updates-in-g-suite-to-streamline-hangouts-and-gmail.html

9 years ago

618 upvotes – 483 comments

Tamil Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_bell

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 123 comments

Pythagorean Theorem proof in a 2100 year old Chinese book

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/pythagorean-theorem-proof-in-zhoubi-suanjing#email-newsletter

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 142 comments

Angular 4.0.0 Now Available

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2017/03/angular-400-now-available.html

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 345 comments

Lisp Quickstart

http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/lisp/LispTutorial.html

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 113 comments

3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go

https://npf.io/2017/03/3.5yrs-500k-lines-of-go/

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 238 comments

Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719487-amazon-has-potential-meet-expectations-investors-success-will-bring-big

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 320 comments

No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter

https://python.sh/2017/3/i-dont-want-to-subscribe-to-your-newsletter

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 214 comments

Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now for Sale

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11220/dells-32-inch-8k-up3218k-display-now-for-sale

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 247 comments

Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code

http://mattwarren.org/2017/03/23/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-CoreCLR-Source-Code/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 46 comments

Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg

https://edfries.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/chasing-the-first-arcade-easter-egg/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 19 comments

Alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM

https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/

9 years ago

★ 1.4kErlang
217 upvotes – 96 comments

Failures of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07950

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

OpenSSL Licensing Update

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/20/license/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 116 comments

Good News on the California Drought

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/california-measuring-snowpack.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 123 comments

German Space Center has constructed the world’s largest artificial Sun

http://newatlas.com/dlr-artificial-sun/48579/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 45 comments

A Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency Few Know Exists

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/20/the-multibillion-dollar-u-s-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of-trump/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 125 comments

Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor”

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12117

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 48 comments

Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/apple-says-recent-wikileaks-cia-docs-detail-old-fixed-iphone-and-mac-exploits/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 67 comments

TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern

https://tidalcycles.org

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

Symantec Backs Its CA

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-backs-its-ca

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n07/daniel-soar/the-most-expensive-weapon-ever-built

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 166 comments

Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952626

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 37 comments

Machine Learning: A Summary on Feature Engineering Using R Language

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoftrservertigerteam/2017/03/23/feature-engineering-using-r/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 21 comments

Twitter explores subscription-based option

http://in.reuters.com/article/twitter-subscription-idINKBN16U389

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 137 comments

Gryadka is not Paxos, so it's probably wrong

http://tschottdorf.github.io/if-its-not-paxos-its-probably-wrong-gryadka

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 42 comments

How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/23/521227214/how-noisy-is-your-neighborhood-now-theres-a-map-for-that

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 51 comments

Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros

http://serv.peterme.net/devlog/cross-platform-guis-and-nim-macros.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

http://www.fedex.com/us/office/no-flash.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Codewich – A live-updating TypeScript/CSS/HTML playground

https://codewich.com/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

HyperNormalisation [video]

https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/?repost

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/congress-debates-reversing-course-decades-consumer-privacy-protections

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 82 comments

What do slaveholders think?

https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-what-slavery-looks-like-today-in-the-eyes-of-slavers

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 205 comments

'Windows 10 destroyed our data' Microsoft taken to US court

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/24/microsoft_windows_10_update/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 87 comments

FedEx will give you $5 to reinstall Flash

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15052286/fedex-adobe-flash-five-dollar-discount-print-orders

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

Survival of the Friendliest

http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/survival-of-the-friendliest

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Cross-platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck, 2016 Edition

http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trainwreck-2016-edition/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/03/24/ruby-to-crystal-test/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal

https://jclem.net/posts/building-a-command-line-application-with-crystal

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Brief Introduction To General Purpose Hash Functions

http://www.partow.net/programming/hashfunctions/index.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Ostinato – A Network Traffic Generator and Analyzer

http://ostinato.org/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Google Team Refines GPU Powered Neural Machine Translation

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/03/20/google-team-refines-gpu-powered-neural-machine-translation/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

GCC licence change

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149032069130072&w=2

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

How to answer the “What’s your current salary?” job interview question

https://medium.com/@JoshDoody/how-to-answer-the-whats-your-current-salary-job-interview-question-486254cb59ad

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 106 comments

Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)

https://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-stories-blake-scholl-of-boom-technology/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background

https://www.dropbox.com/help/9300

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 85 comments

World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019

http://www.seeker.com/worlds-first-deep-sea-mining-venture-set-to-launch-in-2019-2327856967.html

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

What’s the Matter with Covert Action?

http://www.filfre.net/2017/03/whats-the-matter-with-covert-action/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Drag – Change the way you work inside Gmail

http://www.dragapp.com

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

A second life for very old C programs

https://tailordev.fr/blog/2017/03/24/second-life-for-c-programs/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Do you think there is an opportunity for a better alternative to Upwork?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13947084

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Java's TypeVariable.getBounds is not thread safe

http://vmlens.com/articles/java-lang-reflect-typevariable-getbounds-is-not-thread-safe/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

21 XMPP use-cases and the best ways to achieve them

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/21-xmpp-use-cases-and-the-best-ways-to-achieve-them.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments
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