top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-04

G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/technology/gm-invests-in-lyft.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Ftechnology%2Fgm-invests-in-lyft.html

10 years ago

477 upvotes – 392 comments

Angular 2 versus React

https://medium.com/@housecor/angular-2-versus-react-there-will-be-blood-66595faafd51

10 years ago

424 upvotes – 243 comments

Please do not delete this commented-out version

http://emacshorrors.com/posts/forget-me-not.html

10 years ago

413 upvotes – 203 comments

BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

10 years ago

★ 18k Go MIT
385 upvotes – 64 comments

Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.1.5

https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

10 years ago

379 upvotes – 27 comments

Tor Anonymity: Things Not to Do

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/DoNot

10 years ago

345 upvotes – 99 comments

New Adventures for Elm

http://elm-lang.org/blog/new-adventures-for-elm

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 86 comments

T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles-bingeon-optimization-just-throttling-applies

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 113 comments

Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 15 comments

Fun with Swift

http://joearms.github.io/2016/01/04/fun-with-swift.html

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 109 comments

Spacemacs 0.105.0 released

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/releases/tag/v0.105.0

10 years ago

★ 24.5k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
212 upvotes – 97 comments

How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption

https://carouselapps.com/2015/12/15/legally-submit-app-apples-app-store-uses-encryption-obtain-ern/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 116 comments

Steam Sales 2015

https://medium.com/steam-spy/steam-sales-in-2015-2e81a6bb0f5a#.mql5bit8s

10 years ago

192 upvotes – 88 comments

Aseprite: cross-platform, open source sprite and pixel art tool

http://www.aseprite.org/

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 22 comments

PostgreSQL 9.5 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 19 comments

Is there any point to the 12 times table?

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/26/is-there-any-point-to-the-12-times-table/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 193 comments

The Product Engineer

http://essays.davidchouinard.com/product-engineer

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 82 comments

Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health Insurance

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/many-see-irs-fines-as-more-affordable-than-insurance.html

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 369 comments

Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow

http://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-low-power-long-range-wi-fi-halow

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 79 comments

Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-jan-6/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 199 comments

Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process

http://davemart.in/2015/04/22/inside-automattics-remote-hiring-process

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 84 comments

How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition

https://certsimple.com/blog/deploy-node-on-linux

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

Build your own Jarvis

http://jasperproject.github.io/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 30 comments

Facebook and its news feed algorithm

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/01/how_facebook_s_news_feed_algorithm_works.single.html

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

100 Days of Swift

http://samvlu.com/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 23 comments

You can't trust Amazon Underground

http://discours.es/2016/you-cant-trust-amazon-underground

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 84 comments

Agromafia

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-agromafia-food-fraud/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 84 comments

Overcoming Intuition in Programming

http://amasad.me/2016/01/03/overcoming-intuition-in-programming/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 78 comments

Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 68 comments

Ten years later, did Boston's Big Dig deliver?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 116 comments

Synth Secrets (1999–2004)

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Dirk's Lego Globe (2013)

http://mocpages.com/moc.php/353076

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack (2012)

https://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/frost

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Announcing Spark 1.6

https://databricks.com/blog/2016/01/04/announcing-spark-1-6.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

Hiking a mountain with Ian Murdock

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9437-hiking-a-mountain-with-ian-murdock

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 2 comments

Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version

http://paulgraham.com/sim.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 139 comments

It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005)

http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor

https://gobby.github.io/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Google paid $380M to buy Bebop, Diane Greene donating her $148M share

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/google-paid-380m-to-buy-bebop-executive-diane-greene-donating-her-148m-share/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

The Apple Pencil; a lot of semiconductor content in something so small

http://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/the-apple-pencil-a-lot-of-semiconductor-content-something-so-small

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 47 comments

Python Programming for the Humanities: An interactive tutorial

http://fbkarsdorp.github.io/python-course/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Why have most tech and startup-related bloggers moved to Medium?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839118

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35122755

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X1 Yoga at CES with OLED Display

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9887/lenovo-launches-thinkpad-x1-yoga-at-ces-with-oled-display

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 102 comments

My Favorite Debug Ever

http://ryan.hypnoticocelot.com/post/136617949294/my-favorite-debug-ever

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Flowgorithm: Flowchart Programming IDE

http://flowgorithm.org/index.htm

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Should scientific papers be anonymous?

http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/30/should-scientific-papers-be-anonymous/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/3/10706180/lg-rollable-display-flexible-screen-announced-ces-2016

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

Stop Comparing JSON and XML

http://www.yegor256.com/2015/11/16/json-vs-xml.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Fired Me

https://medium.com/@tossayo/google-fired-me-a3ad8cb9fd8d

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 75 comments

Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10708590/facebook-google-android-app-crash-tests

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Big RAM laptops are abundant as Lenovo does its Skylake refresh

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/big-ram-laptops-are-abundant-as-lenovo-does-its-skylake-refresh/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 80 comments

The Ghosts of Baha Mar: How a $3.5B Paradise Went Bust

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/the-ghosts-of-baha-mar-how-a-3-5-billion-paradise-went-bust

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

How John and Patrick Collison Built Stripe

http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2016/01/04/cashiers-of-the-internet/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

A perspective on friendly C

http://www.philipreames.com/Blog/2016/01/03/a-perspective-on-friendly-c/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

https://operator.im

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/01/03/what-happens-when-virtual-reality-gets-too-real/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

Kurosawa's Japan Revisited

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/12/30/kurosawa-japan-revisited/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Are 20-Somethings Retiring?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/yellen-s-job-puzzle-why-are-20-somethings-retiring-

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 91 comments

Secrets of food photography

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/04/food-stylist-photography-tricks-advertising

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Glass is coming back

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/01/04/reports-of-death-of-google-glass-premature-according-to-fcc-filing.html

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 81 comments
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