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

Stockfighter is live

https://www.stockfighter.io/

11 years ago

549 upvotes – 138 comments

Stop using gzip

http://imoverclocked.blogspot.com/2015/12/for-love-of-bits-stop-using-gzip.html

11 years ago

432 upvotes – 255 comments

Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

https://cloudcraft.co/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 72 comments

UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/you-may-soon-need-a-licence-to-take-photos-of-that-classic-designer-chair-you-bought/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 135 comments

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10724460

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 190 comments

Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 110 comments

Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/10/microsoft-beats-google-intel-tencent-and-qualcomm-in-image-recognition-competition/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 41 comments

Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub

https://dotfiles.github.io/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

90:9:1 – the odd ratio that technology keeps creating

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/12/ratio-technology-mozilla-firefox-os-90-9-1

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

Little Forms – an open source minimalistic GUI widget library written in plain C

http://runtimelegend.com/rep/lforms/index

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Pybind11 – Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11

11 years ago

★ 113 C++
121 upvotes – 39 comments

Why I decided not to enter the $100k global warming time-series challenge

http://andrewgelman.com/2015/12/09/why-i-decided-not-to-enter-the-100000-global-warming-time-series-challenge/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

When the Soviets Banned Rock Music, Teens Used X-rays to Bootleg Records

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-hipsters-bootlegged-banned-music-bone-records-180957505/?no-ist

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Stockfighter Developer Hub

https://starfighter.readme.io/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

Sundar Pichai: Let’s not let fear defeat our values

https://medium.com/@sundar_pichai/let-s-not-let-fear-defeat-our-values-af2e5ca92371#.z9ib1meul

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Creating the perfect GPG keypair

https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Z – quickly cd to 'frecent' directories

https://github.com/rupa/z

11 years ago

★ 16.9k Shell WTFPL
91 upvotes – 49 comments

Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist’s Crib Sheet

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/12/common-probability-distributions-the-data-scientists-crib-sheet/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

Self-hosting Firefox Sync 1.5

https://known.phyks.me/2015/self-hosting-firefox-sync-15

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Who's Profiting from $1.2T of Federal Student Loans?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-11/a-144-000-student-default-shows-who-profits-at-taxpayer-expense

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 105 comments

Graying Thieves Who Nearly Got Away with a Record Heist in London

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/london-hatton-garden-heist.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Andrew Ng on What's Next in Deep Learning [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9TOX8T-kI

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Coinbase is now hiring remote engineers

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/coinbase-is-hiring-remote-full-time-engineers-here-s-why-and-how-to-apply-if-you-re-interested-69af208fb75#.owq44lepr

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Comparative Study of Caffe, Neon, Theano, and Torch for Deep Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06435

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Mistakes business students make when founding a startup

https://medium.com/@Mondable/top-10-mistakes-business-students-make-when-founding-a-startup-7f4845315035#.h5f640h5o

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

A disturbing report from the front lines of the war on cancer

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/14/tough-medicine?mbid=social_facebook

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Duplicate Signature Key Selection Attack in Let's Encrypt

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/duplicate_signature_key_selection_attack_in_lets_encrypt

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

The Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin”

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Feature flags API in Go

https://github.com/AntoineAugusti/feature-flags

11 years ago

★ 386 Go MIT
68 upvotes – 12 comments

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

http://www.watertownology.com/cold/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

ARM charts out the path to printed plastic chips

https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-plastic-chips/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Books Are Getting Longer

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/10/are-books-getting-longer-survey-marlon-james-hanya-yanagihara

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 69 comments

Japanese Suicide Apartments

http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/12/japanese-suicide-apartments/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 62 comments

Vault 0.4 released – a tool for managing secrets

https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault-0.4.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework?

http://buytaert.net/should-we-decouple-drupal-with-a-client-side-framework

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

Fraunhofer Lines

http://booktwo.org/notebook/fraunhofer-lines/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Eclipse Code Recommenders

http://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Banksy: “Steve Jobs – The Son of a Migrant from Syria”

http://banksy.co.uk/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments

Swift IDE for Linux and Mac in an Atom Package

https://medium.com/p/hacking-atom-to-create-a-swift-ide-that-runs-on-linux-and-mac-c7d9520a0fac

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Haskell Skyline

http://pykello.github.io/programming/2015/12/12/haskell-skyline/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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