top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-11

Introducing OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

11 years ago

1107 upvotes – 376 comments

How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-to-stop-computers-from-taking-over-17e0e27dd02a

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 171 comments

Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme

https://ponzi.es

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 125 comments

I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10719080

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 310 comments

Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/dec/11/django-awarded-moss-grant/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 101 comments

US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/08/us-to-ban-soaps-other-products-containing-microbeads

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 221 comments

Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/yahoos-engineers-move-to-coding-without-a-net

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 178 comments

Reality Editor – MIT Media Lab

http://www.realityeditor.org/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 97 comments

Dow and DuPont to merge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/12/11/dow-and-dupont-two-of-americas-oldest-giants-to-merge-in-job-dropping-megadeal/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_dupont_dow_800am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 120 comments

Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read

http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/reading-list/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 205 comments

MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 62 comments

He Blew the Whistle at JPMorgan Chase, Then Came the Blowback

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/business/he-blew-the-whistle-at-jpmorgan-chase-then-came-the-blowback.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 50 comments

How I became a morning person

https://medium.com/@jazer/how-i-became-a-morning-person-and-why-i-decided-to-make-the-change-eb1b012a16e5

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 142 comments

A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/science/an-advance-in-artificial-intelligence-rivals-human-vision-abilities.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 67 comments

Spideroak Kloak: Zero-Knowlege Social Networking

https://spideroak.com/solutions/kloak

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 66 comments

Akatsuki probe successfully enters Venus orbit, returns images

http://www.cnet.com/news/japans-akatsuki-orbiter-sends-back-triumphant-venus-images/#ftag=CAD590a51e

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12045733/Tokyo-police-are-using-drones-with-nets-to-catch-other-drones.html

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All Cars in the World (2013)

http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-more-pollution-than-all-the-cars-in-the-world/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

Inside Google's Deep Dreams project

https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-deep-dreams-how-google-made-its-computers-go-crazy-83b9d24e66df#.o7ltyrj98

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Capital Is No Longer Scarce

http://continuations.com/post/134920840275/capital-is-no-longer-scarce

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 117 comments

A 1920s millionaire set off a race to have the most babies

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-dead-millionaire-convinced-dozens-of-women-to-have-as-many-babies-as-possible/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

U.S. states pass laws backing Uber's view of drivers as contractors

http://reuters.com/article/idUSL1N13Z1YP20151210

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 168 comments

Memory use and speed of JSON parsers

http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2015/11/22/memory-use-and-speed-of-json-parsers/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Wallet: Send money via text message

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2015/12/send-money-to-anyone-in-your-contact-list.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-moral-failure-of-computer-science/420012/?single_page=true

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Slightly Less Awful Hiring for Engineering Talent

http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/12/11/slightly-less-awful-hiring-for-engineering-talent/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

It Probably Works: Probabilistic algorithms are all around us

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2855183

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Implementing a CNN for Text Classification in Tensorflow

http://www.wildml.com/2015/12/implementing-a-cnn-for-text-classification-in-tensorflow/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

The Joy of Getting Hacked

http://waxy.org/2015/12/the_joy_of_getting_hacked/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Tips for Screencasting

http://brettterpstra.com/2015/12/10/tips-for-screencasting/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Go Running on the Rumprun Unikernel

https://github.com/deferpanic/gorump

11 years ago

★ 310 Go MIT
78 upvotes – 9 comments

Next generation of Google Cloud SQL

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-next-generation-of-managed-MySQL-offerings-on-Cloud-SQL.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Id0-rsa.pub: exercises related to computer security

https://id0-rsa.pub

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

OPSEC for honeypots

http://xiphosresearch.com/2015/12/09/OPSEC-For-Honeypots.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

Journalling Revisited: XFS vs. EXT4

http://epickrram.blogspot.com/2015/12/journalling-revisited.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2015

http://meetingcpp.com/index.php/newsreader/items/meeting-c-2015-all-lightning-talks-are-now-online-at-youtube.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Numerai – A global AI tournament to predict the stock market

https://www.numer.ai/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

'A tortured heap of towers': the London skyline of tomorrow

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of-london-skyline-of-tomorrow-interactive

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

3D Time-Lapse Reconstruction from Internet Photos

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse3d/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Virtualizing APIs with Go and Python

https://www.specto.io/?p=77

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Microsoft Makes Concessions to Disgruntled OneDrive Fans

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/onedrive/62949/microsoft-makes-concessions-to-disgruntled-onedrive-fans

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Firefox OS Pivot to Connected Devices

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 78 comments

Highly educated women no longer have fewer kids

http://www.voxeu.org/article/highly-educated-women-no-longer-have-fewer-kids

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

Palantir raises $680M

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-data-company-palantir-raises-003057349.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 67 comments

Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers

http://www.linuxvoice.com/seymour-cray-and-supercomputers/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20151209-00/?p=92361

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

The Szilassi polyhedron

http://www.minortriad.com/szilassi.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Skyscraper-style chip design boosts electronic performance

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/december/n3xt-computing-structure-120915.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Hacking DNA Is the Secret of Deep-Space Travel

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a18496/why-synthetic-lifeforms-are-the-secret-of-deep-space-travel/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

ELS: latency based load balancer

https://labs.spotify.com/2015/12/08/els-part-1/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

After Capitalism?

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-24/the-intellectual-situation/after-capitalism/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 84 comments

Alibaba Buys South China Morning Post

https://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-acquires-south-china-morning-post/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Amigaville – A New Amiga Magazine

http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/amigaville-a-new-amiga-magazine/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 39 comments

Hasn’t the problem of Windows updates being partially installed been solved?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20151211-00/?p=92501

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

Skype for Windows is broken

https://medium.com/@zg/skype-for-windows-is-fundamentally-broken-and-nobody-is-doing-anything-to-fix-it-bc064a50094e

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 42 comments

How to use interfaces in Go (2012)

http://jordanorelli.com/post/32665860244/how-to-use-interfaces-in-go

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments
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