Hacker News on 23 March 2016

• NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
• That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
• I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
• Julie Rubicon
• Google opens access to its speech recognition API
• An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
• What I Learned Selling a Software Business
• Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total
• D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
• Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC