top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-08

Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

https://petapixel.com/2018/03/07/two-photographers-unknowingly-shot-millisecond-time/

8 years ago

1397 upvotes – 215 comments

Some terrible personal news

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/cindy-cutts/

8 years ago

1018 upvotes – 220 comments

All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/07/all-of-oculuss-rift-headsets-have-stopped-working-due-to-an-expired-certificate/?ncid=rss

8 years ago

901 upvotes – 376 comments

Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life

http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3303

8 years ago

733 upvotes – 143 comments

Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar

8 years ago

565 upvotes – 161 comments

California to Introduce 'Right to Repair' Bill

https://a13.asmdc.org/press-releases/20180307-eggman-introduces-legislation-create-right-repair-electronics

8 years ago

409 upvotes – 217 comments

Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/unexpected-challenges-of-making-money/

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 161 comments

Scrcpy – An app to display and control Android devices

https://blog.rom1v.com/2018/03/introducing-scrcpy/

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 56 comments

How to Write CSS That Works in Every Browser, Even the Old Ones

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/how-to-write-css-that-works-in-every-browser-even-the-old-ones/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 100 comments

Writing a Microservice in Rust

http://www.goldsborough.me/rust/web/tutorial/2018/01/20/17-01-11-writing_a_microservice_in_rust/

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 125 comments

Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux

https://github.com/redox-os/relibc

8 years ago

★ 982RustMIT
248 upvotes – 100 comments

An argument that companies should pay users for their data

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/business/economy/user-data-pay.html

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 162 comments

Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 271 comments

Vim-db: Modern database interface for Vim

https://github.com/tpope/vim-db

8 years ago

★ 4.3kVim Script
205 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542183

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 82 comments

3D Lightning (2013)

http://calculatedimages.blogspot.com/2013/05/3d-lightning.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 17 comments

What Airbnb Did to New York City

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/what-airbnb-did-to-new-york-city/552749/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 231 comments

Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended

http://movermeyer.com/2018-03-08-building-bots-to-mend-badges/

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 67 comments

Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleading view of intelligence

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/03/08/best-selling-introductory-psychology-books-give-a-misleading-view-of-intelligence/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 155 comments

Into the Breach’s interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/03/05/into-the-breach-interface-design/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 55 comments

Symbolic Execution: Intuition and Implementation

http://www.usrsb.in/symbolic-execution-intuition-and-implementation.html

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 28 comments

Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Book-World-Agatha-Christie-s-life-rivaled-the-12735983.php

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 60 comments

Less is Exponentially More (2012)

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons in our early teens

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-neurons-age-20180307-story.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 51 comments

Awesome Developer Streams: curated list of awesome developers that stream

https://github.com/bnb/awesome-developer-streams#awesome-developer-streams-

8 years ago

★ 7.9kCC0-1.0
138 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Tinder Revenue Estimate

https://manicoti.com/bmodels/1

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 105 comments

Virtual private networks with WireGuard

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/748582/75c743d0eb3aae0f/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka

https://80000hours.org/2018/03/leah-utyasheva-pesticide-suicide-prevention/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

LLVM 6.0.0 Release

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-March/121675.html

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go

https://read.acloud.guru/comparing-aws-lambda-performance-of-node-js-python-java-c-and-go-29c1163c2581

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 25 comments

Primer on Go Assembly

https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals/blob/master/chapter1_assembly_primer/README.md

8 years ago

★ 7.9kGo
113 upvotes – 11 comments

Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action at a distance?

https://aeon.co/essays/can-retrocausality-solve-the-puzzle-of-action-at-a-distance

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 85 comments

Vulkan 1.1 Released

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-releases-vulkan-1-1

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) [pdf]

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Conant_Ashby.pdf

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-wont-help-with-hiring/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution (2017)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-thermodynamics-revolution-20170502/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

‘Blockchain’ is meaningless

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17091766/blockchain-bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-meaning

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

The real reason for large DDoS attacks? It's IP Spoofing, not memcached

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-root-cause-of-large-ddos-ip-spoofing/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

HyperCard Zine

https://crime.team/~hypercard/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 64 comments

It has gotten much easier to wage record-breaking DDoSes

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/it-just-got-much-easier-to-wage-record-breaking-ddoses/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Heredity Beyond the Gene

http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/heredity-beyond-the-gene

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 52 comments

Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008)

http://davidsd.org/2008/12/honda-needs-a-tune-up/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Node v9.8.0

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v9.8.0/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

There was an attack against the Proton network

https://protonstatus.com/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-model3-quality-20180218-story.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 135 comments

Standardizing lessons learned from AMP

https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/standardizing-lessons-learned-from-amp/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 88 comments

Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achieve Quantum Supremacy

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pam958/bristlecone-google-quantum-computer-72-qubits

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Bringing Back Skeuomorphic Design

https://blog.prototypr.io/bringing-back-skeuomorphic-design-d211cc1c22d2

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 80 comments
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