top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-27

Request For Research: Basic Income

https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income

10 years ago

1876 upvotes – 1121 comments

Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35420579

10 years ago

1207 upvotes – 394 comments

Voxel.css

http://voxelcss.com/

10 years ago

771 upvotes – 103 comments

Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out

http://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/

10 years ago

520 upvotes – 264 comments

Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-websites-that-are-unencrypted-chrome-https

10 years ago

448 upvotes – 356 comments

Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer

http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/

10 years ago

445 upvotes – 272 comments

Why are submarines demagnetized?

http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/show/255/

10 years ago

341 upvotes – 114 comments

Visualizing Concurrency in Go

https://divan.github.io/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 18 comments

Entrepreneur porn is a dangerous fantasy

https://www.techinasia.com/disconnect-entrepreneur-porn-dangerous-fantasy-talking-success-rates

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 159 comments

Why I work remotely has nothing to do with productivity

https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-i-work-remotely-hint-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-productivity-34ace30f74fc

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 84 comments

Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (2013)

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-artist/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I’m not speaking at CPDP: It’s the privacy-washing

https://ar.al/notes/why-im-not-speaking-at-cpdp/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 59 comments

NTP Pool Bad Actors: The Rising Sophistication of Network Scanning

http://netpatterns.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-rising-sophistication-of-network.html

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 76 comments

My Reaction to React

https://pseudoconcurrentthought.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/my-reaction-to-react/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 139 comments

Farewell, Marvin Minsky

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/01/farewell-marvin-minsky-19272016/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 34 comments

Apache Traffic Server

https://trafficserver.apache.org/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 71 comments

The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5969923/Theranos_Inc_Cover_Letter_01-25-2016.0.pdf

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 188 comments

Building AI

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102620559534481

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 147 comments

Facebook Climbs to 1.59B Users, Beats Q4 Estimates with $5.8B Revenue

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/facebook-earnings-q4-2015/#.kqfyhh:2YGM

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 135 comments

VMware Confirms Layoffs as It Prepares for Dell Acquisition

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/26/vmware-confirms-layoffs-in-earnings-statement-as-it-prepares-for-dell-acquisition/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 112 comments

Leonardo da Vinci's application letter

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/skills-of-da-vinci.html

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 61 comments

HFT in the Banana Land

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/hft-in-the-banana-land/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Understanding Space Is So Hard

http://nautil.us/blog/this-is-why-understanding-space-is-so-hard

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4924

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer

https://github.com/fengyuanchen/viewerjs

10 years ago

★ 8.2k JavaScript MIT
142 upvotes – 106 comments

The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Trying to interview Larry Page

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/insider/try-to-interview-googles-chief-executive-its-emasculating.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 85 comments

A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI

http://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 76 comments

What a PhD Really Means in the US National Security Community

https://news.vice.com/article/doctors-of-doom-what-a-phd-really-means-in-the-us-national-security-community-1

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

First Nation's clay kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria in lab tests

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-clay-1.3421198

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

Paul Allen's yacht destroyed 14,000 sq.ft of reef in the West Bay Caymans

https://caymannewsservice.com/2016/01/billionaire-boater-destroys-wb-reef/?utm_source=CNS+Newsflash&utm_campaign=ff59f693b6-26_1_16_early_poll&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e5aea46d5d-ff59f693b6-59643737

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 70 comments

Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/moving_to_a_plugin_free

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Unikernel Profiling from dom0

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-01-27/unikernel-profiling-from-dom0.html

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

AlphaGo: Mastering the Ancient Game of Go with Machine Learning

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-mastering-ancient-game-of-go.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 2 comments

Inside Facebook’s Decision to Blow Up the Like Button

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-reactions-chris-cox/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 96 comments

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

The limitations of sampling profilers

http://danluu.com/perf-tracing/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

Antioxidants May Make Cancer Worse

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antioxidants-may-make-cancer-worse/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

ADHD Is Fuel for Adventure

http://www.outsideonline.com/2048391/adhd-fuel-adventure

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 82 comments

Victorian London in detail with OpenLayers

http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/victorian-london-in-incredible-detail/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks at NYSE Floor

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/high-speed-firms-now-oversee-almost-all-stocks-at-nyse-floor

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 128 comments

Early antibiotic use 'may predispose children to weight gain and asthma'

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/early-antibiotic-use-may-predispose-children-to-weight-gain-and-asthma

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160126-how-the-brain-maps-time/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

The Fire Last Time: The Bronze Age Apocalypse

http://thebreakingtime.typepad.com/the_breaking_time/2009/01/the-fire-last-time-bronze-age-collapse.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple Safari users suffer crashes

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35420573

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

The wisdom teeth industry is probably a scam

http://fusion.net/story/252916/should-i-get-my-wisdom-teeth-removed-no

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 92 comments

Pyjion – A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR

https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion

10 years ago

★ 1.5k C++ MIT
72 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building

https://tuvalie.com/fae/?q=Albert%20Einstein

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Theranos Lab Found in Violation of Clinical Standards

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/business/theranos-lab-found-in-violation-of-clinical-standards.html?ref=business

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Astronomers discover largest solar system

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35420633

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Political Speech Generator

https://github.com/valentin012/conspeech

10 years ago

★ 350 OpenEdge ABL
68 upvotes – 35 comments

Google AI beats a pro at the game of Go

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-machine-learning-game-go.html

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments
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