top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-18

Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments

http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/

10 years ago

Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/making-gitlab-better-for-large-open-source-projects/

10 years ago

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-failing-the-stack-fallacy/

10 years ago

WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC

https://webtorrent.io/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924877

10 years ago

Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926038

10 years ago

Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoffs rise

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/01/16/party-over-soaring-tech-valuations-big-funding-rounds/78028176/

10 years ago

SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35340734

10 years ago

Netboot

http://netboot.xyz/

10 years ago

All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/?utm_source=SFFB&single_page=true

10 years ago

Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus

https://awarewriter.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/org-mode-for-writing-structure-focus/

10 years ago

Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far

https://blog.serverdensity.com/launching-an-apple-tv-app-what-weve-learned-so-far/

10 years ago

Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset

http://www.troyshu.com/blog/2016/01/15/pharma-paid-physicians-6-5b-in-2014-looking-into-the-open-payments-dataset/

10 years ago

Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/01/18/multiple-cameras-with-the-raspberry-pi-and-opencv/

10 years ago

Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense

https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/commit/cabe5fca76f6c38f872ea4a5967458e6f3bfe054

10 years ago

★ 117 C

Is Apple Using Swift?

https://medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is-apple-using-swift-4a6c80f74599

10 years ago

Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016

https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-01-19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016

10 years ago

Before brogramming, table flipping, and beyond

http://technowoman.blogspot.com/2015/04/before-brogramming-table-flipping-and.html

10 years ago

C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/c11-threads-affinity-and-hyperthreading/

10 years ago

Ask HN: In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927043

10 years ago

Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir

http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2016-01-15-visualizing-parallel-requests-in-elixir/

10 years ago

Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns

http://blog.christianperone.com/2016/01/voynich-manuscript-word-vectors-and-t-sne-visualization-of-some-patterns/?a=b

10 years ago

STOKE – a stochastic optimizer for x86_64 assembly

https://github.com/StanfordPL/stoke-release

10 years ago

★ 329

Jewish problems (2011)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

10 years ago

Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?

http://webappsec-test.info/~bhill2/DifferentTakeOnOE.html

10 years ago

Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator

http://cdmedia.github.io/cms.js/

10 years ago

Being a deaf developer

http://cruft.io/posts/deep-accessibility/

10 years ago

A reply to Russell Okung

http://paulgraham.com/okung.html

10 years ago

Never consider a travel planning startup

http://www.tnooz.com/article/why-you-should-never-consider-a-travel-planning-startup/

10 years ago

Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap

http://www.evilsocket.net/2016/01/18/autopwn-every-android-device-on-your-network-using-bettercap-the-and-addjavascriptinterface-vulnerability/

10 years ago

Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (1982)

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/08/business/for-new-business-during-recession-start-must-be-lean.html

10 years ago

Introducing TrumpScript – Make Python Great Again

http://www.makepythongreatagain.org

10 years ago

How to Leverage Technical Debt

https://medium.com/startup-guide-anti-patterns/how-you-can-leverage-technical-debt-why-you-should-4ec48a387751

10 years ago

Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html

10 years ago

Are cities the new countries?

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35305586

10 years ago

Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

https://gist.github.com/roddds/a1f42bae598028ac7809

10 years ago

WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees

https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-useful

10 years ago

Probability of GUID collisions with different versions

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160114-00/?p=92851

10 years ago

Abusing Your Browser: Infinitely Large Favicons

https://ejj.io/abusing-your-browser-favicon/

10 years ago

Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map

https://github.com/ben174/git-draw

10 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript MIT

Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis

http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02539

10 years ago

Creolabs: Language, IDE and UI framework for building native apps

http://creolabs.com/#download

10 years ago

The unsexy IoT

http://deepstream.io/blog/the-unsexy-iot/

10 years ago

How many hours a week should academics work?

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/how-many-hours-week-should-academics-work

10 years ago

Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science

http://a3nm.net/work/research/questions/

10 years ago

The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/secrets-sherlocks-mind-palace-180949567/?no-ist

10 years ago

MIT Poker Course: Can a little calculus make a total novice into a gambling pro?

https://mentalfloss.atavist.com/secrets-of-the-mit-poker-course

10 years ago

‘Locked-in’ people show signs of awareness when faced with sums

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28789-locked-in-people-show-signs-of-awareness-when-faced-with-sums

10 years ago

OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling

http://opentrons.com/

10 years ago

Why I Always Wanted to Be a Secretary

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/why-i-always-wanted-to-be-a-secretary.html

10 years ago

Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases [pdf]

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orestis/sigmod15.pdf

10 years ago

How I wrote a script to generate faces by inverting Haar cascades with Python

http://matthewearl.github.io/2016/01/14/inverse-haar/

10 years ago

Firm: a C library with graph-based IR suitable for compilers

http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/Index

10 years ago

Singapore witnesses the rise of the entrepreneur

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/money/article/without-fuss-or-fanfare-singapore-witnesses-the-rise-of-the-entrepreneur?platform=hootsuite

10 years ago

Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970) [pdf]

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf

10 years ago

France’s Economy Minister on French Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/15/frances-economy-minister-emmanuel-macron-on-french-startups/

10 years ago

Peach App Token Reuse Flaw

https://www.hakobaito.co.uk/b/peach-app-token-reuse-flaw/

10 years ago