top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-09

Why Go Is Not Good (2014)

http://yager.io/programming/go.html

11 years ago

413 upvotes – 453 comments

Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.

https://www.jukedeck.com/make

11 years ago

410 upvotes – 211 comments

Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/technology/yahoo-alibaba-spinoff.html

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 282 comments

Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 110 comments

The Content Marketing Handbook

http://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 52 comments

Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-founder-craig-wrights-home-raided-by-australian-police

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 147 comments

Cortana available on iOS and Android

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/12/09/cortana-now-available-here-and-when-you-need-her-no-matter-what-smartphone-you-choose/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 127 comments

Magic Leap raises $827M in Series C

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/09/augmented-reality-company-magic-leap-raising-827-million/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 177 comments

What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems

http://videlalvaro.github.io/2015/12/learning-about-distributed-systems.html

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 30 comments

Modern Perl 4th Edition is out, ebook version is free

https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 94 comments

Neuroscientists find new support for Chomsky’s “internal grammar” thesis

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/12/07/chomsky-was-right-nyu-researchers-find-we-do-have-a-grammar-in-our-head.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 91 comments

Social media encourages us to follow those we envy

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/is-facebook-luring-you-into-being-depressed

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 184 comments

File format wiki

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 41 comments

Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/08/glassdoor-airbnb-dethrones-google-as-the-best-tech-company-to-work-for-in-the-u-s/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 120 comments

Swift open source – let the revolution begin

http://www.jessesquires.com/swift-open-source/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 55 comments

Live Writer Is Now Open Source

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/open-live-writer

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 26 comments

RethinkDB Driver for Java now available

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/official-java-driver/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 48 comments

1984 – When women stopped coding

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 204 comments

How AMD Won, Then Lost

http://hackaday.com/2015/12/09/echo-of-the-bunnymen-how-amd-won-then-lost/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/09/459087477/the-tipping-point-most-americans-no-longer-are-middle-class

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 97 comments

‘No-drill’ techniques can treat tooth decay just as well, study finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/08/goodbye-to-dental-fillings-no-drill-techniques-can-treat-tooth-decay-just-as-well-study-finds/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/arts/television/south-park-sketches-grander-satire-themes.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

Using Python for offensive cyber security and penetration testing [audio]

http://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/37/python-cybersecurity-and-penetration-testing

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 11 comments

High Quality Video Encoding at Scale

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Adblock to Bitcoin

https://github.com/owocki/adblock-to-bitcoin

11 years ago

★ 182 JavaScript
128 upvotes – 127 comments

Building a cross-platform desktop app with NW.js, React and Flux

https://meetfinch.com/blog/cross-platform-app-nwjs-react-flux

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

InfluxDB is now InfluxData, a platform for time series data

https://influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-the-platform-for-time-series-data/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/RELEASE.md

11 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0
111 upvotes – 37 comments

Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02595

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

The Cost and Complexity of Cgo

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-of-cgo/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 6 comments

MySQL is a Better NoSQL

http://engineering.wix.com/2015/12/10/scaling-to-100m-mysql-is-a-better-nosql/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 88 comments

Monopoly as a Markov Chain

http://koaning.io/monopoly-simulations.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (1999)

http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Micropayment platform Blendle will launch a US beta in early 2016

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/micropayment-platform-blendle-will-launch-a-us-beta-in-early-2016/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

HN Not so much “Hacker News” anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702719

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of North Face, dies after Chile kayak accident

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/09/douglas-tompkins-billionaire-behind-north-face-dies-after-kayak-accident

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

C4: An opensource creative coding framework for iOS

http://c4ios.com

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in e-cigarette flavors

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/e-cigarette-flavoring-chemicals-linked-to-respiratory-disease/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Chan-Facebook-General

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 89 comments

An Unexpected Effect of Ultra-Marathons: Temporary Brain Shrinkage

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/unexpected-effect-of-ultra-marathons-brain-shrinkage-180957450/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

Tea (1999)

http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A61345

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Etleap (YC W13) launches with a cloud service for easy data cleaning

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/y-combinator-backed-etleap-launches-with-a-cloud-service-for-easy-data-cleaning/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

How cash is carried across Congo

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21679720-new-system-paying-civil-servants-puts-banks-through-their-paces-its-jungle-out-there

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Copyfail: Why WIPO Can't Fix Copyright

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/why-wipo-cant-fix-copyright

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Born to Be Conned

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/born-to-be-conned.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Lua Prototype of Elm's Time-Travelling Debugger

https://github.com/meric/l2l/tree/master/samples/sample09

11 years ago

★ 308 Lua BSD-2-Clause
53 upvotes – 7 comments

How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2015/10/01/the-d-e-shaw-mafia-2/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

What's the best database for an analyst?

https://blog.modeanalytics.com/best-database-for-analysts/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

Attacking HTTP/2 Implementations

http://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/134549767190/attacking-http2-implementations

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments
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