top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-02-24

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)

https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b

7 years ago

528 upvotes – 162 comments

“Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]

http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp/jamieberard-brickstress-bf06.pdf

7 years ago

387 upvotes – 59 comments

Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/breaking-news/amazon-cargo-plane-crashes-in-texas-3-dead/924509495

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 297 comments

ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 200 comments

CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)

https://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css-fps/

7 years ago

305 upvotes – 67 comments

Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart

https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/fearlessconcurrencyhowclojurerustponyerlanganddartletyouachievethat

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 143 comments

Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html

7 years ago

287 upvotes – 391 comments

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/24/18235460/microsoft-hololens-2-price-specs-mixed-reality-ar-vr-business-work-features-mwc-2019

7 years ago

285 upvotes – 144 comments

Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments

https://gizmodo.com/how-an-investigation-of-fake-fcc-comments-snared-a-prom-1832788658

7 years ago

282 upvotes – 72 comments

Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 427 comments
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