top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-22

Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley

https://medium.com/@rickyyean/privilege-and-inequality-in-silicon-valley-92d455b66860#.voi2xqzg3

10 years ago

634 upvotes – 292 comments

Google's Free Deep Learning Course

https://udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730

10 years ago

614 upvotes – 62 comments

Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft

http://gingearstudio.com/why-i-quit-my-dream-job-at-ubisoft

10 years ago

598 upvotes – 192 comments

Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/server_retired_after_18_years_and_ten_months_beat_that_readers/

10 years ago

418 upvotes – 161 comments

Unikernels are unfit for production

https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production

10 years ago

359 upvotes – 318 comments

ES6 Cheatsheet

https://github.com/DrkSephy/es6-cheatsheet

10 years ago

★ 13.3k JavaScript
324 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

http://finda.photo/#v2

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 64 comments

Advice for companies with less than 1 year of runway

http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/01/advice-startups-running-out-of-money/

10 years ago

289 upvotes – 95 comments

The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/business/the-new-york-times-introduces-a-web-site.html

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 94 comments

Number of legal Go positions computed

http://tromp.github.io/go/legal19.html

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 67 comments

Milligram: A minimalist CSS framework

http://milligram.github.io/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 69 comments

Expect Some Unicorns to Lose Their Horns, and It Won’t Be Pretty

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/business/dealbook/expect-some-unicorns-to-lose-their-horns-and-it-wont-be-pretty.html

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 104 comments

Microsoft silently adds Amazon root certificates to its CTL

http://hexatomium.github.io/2016/01/21/amazon-roots/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1-billion-to-keep-search-bar-on-iphone

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 54 comments

The Three Cultures of Machine Learning

http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tutorials/ml-simplex.html

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 19 comments

Organizing My Emails with a Neural Net

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/organizing-my-emails-with-a-neural-net/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 32 comments

Free the Law: all U.S. case law online

http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/projects/free-the-law

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood ideas (1967)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20is--.html

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 66 comments

MagicaVoxel – a free 8-bit voxel editor

http://ephtracy.github.io/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages

https://www.wallabag.org/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

Posting successful SSH logins to Slack

http://sandrinodimattia.net/posting-successful-ssh-logins-to-slack/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 66 comments

It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/technology/larry-page-google-founder-is-still-innovator-in-chief.html

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Streams

http://kevinlawler.com/streams

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 6 comments

Google agrees to pay £130m in back taxes after an audit by UK tax authorities

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35381130

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 83 comments

Dotcloud Is Shutting Down on February 29

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/22/dotcloud-the-cloud-service-that-gave-birth-to-docker-is-shutting-down-on-february-29/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard

http://sampulator.com/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

The Apple iPad Pro Review

http://anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies

https://github.com/nickodell/pact

10 years ago

★ 190 C WTFPL
94 upvotes – 75 comments

HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954430

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 201 comments

Google Cloud Platform Identity and Access Management

https://cloud.google.com/iam/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic HTML/CSS/A11y skills

https://wdrl.info/archive/121

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 123 comments

WebGL Off the Main Thread

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/webgl-off-the-main-thread/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

I have no idea what I’m doing but I’m a programmer

https://blog.lelonek.me/i-have-no-idea-what-i-m-doing-but-i-m-a-programmer-d263dbcd024f

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

How to Investigate a Flying Saucer

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/how-to-investigate-a-flying-saucer.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Making a 4K Fractal Movie with Fractal EXtreme

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/making-a-4k-fractal-movie-with-fractal-extreme/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Myrddin: a systems language that is powerful and fun

http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development

https://github.com/appointmind/fakenames

10 years ago

★ 133
72 upvotes – 41 comments

Buddybuild: Build, deploy and gather feedback for iOS and Android apps

http://buddybuild.com/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Slack Night Mode

http://blog.lacour.me/making-slack-night-mode

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

NES Creator Masayuki Uemura on the Birth of Nintendo's First Console

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/nes-creator-masayuki-uemura-on-the-birth-of-nintendos-first-console

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

The Big Cow Con

https://story.californiasunday.com/rocky-pipkin-agricultural-detective

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-veteran-overseeing-electric-car-project-leaving-company-1453505241

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook ad click numbers are inconsistent with other analytics

https://medium.com/@ConversionChamp/what-happens-when-facebook-decides-to-do-click-fraud-43b187b81bc7

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2kb jquery alternative

http://umbrellajs.com/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952848

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly

http://astronomy.com/news/2016/01/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-extinct

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments

MariaDB Raises $9M More, Michael Howard Named New CEO, Monty Widenius CTO

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/mariadb-raises-9m-more-michael-howard-named-new-ceo-monty-widenius-cto/

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Angular 2 First App Post-Mortem

https://medium.com/@MikeRyan52/angular-2-first-app-post-mortem-b2b2b3618828

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 29 comments

Ageism: a worsening epidemic

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-ageism-20160106-story.html

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 64 comments

Can a $9 Computer Spark a New Wave of Tinkering and Innovation?

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/01/21/463592334/can-a-9-computer-spark-a-new-wave-of-tinkering-and-innovation

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: HNLive – Hacker News in Real Time

http://hnlive.cf

10 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

Spain arrests and charges Mexican Governor with corruption

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/world/americas/a-former-mexican-governor-is-arrested-but-not-by-his-own-country.html

10 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments
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