top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-12

Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

http://blueprintjs.com/

10 years ago

603 upvotes – 203 comments

Reasons not to use Uber

https://stallman.org/uber.html

10 years ago

544 upvotes – 361 comments

How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/?

10 years ago

379 upvotes – 262 comments

A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html

10 years ago

372 upvotes – 64 comments

Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf]

http://www.math.kent.edu/~oana/math60070/InterviewProblems.pdf

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 145 comments

Why is machine learning ‘hard’?

http://ai.stanford.edu/~zayd/why-is-machine-learning-hard.html

10 years ago

327 upvotes – 88 comments

Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 276 comments

Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

http://jamesbvaughan.com/writing-an-http-server-in-prolog/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Gridmaster – A Code School for Learning Spreadsheets

http://gridmaster.io

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 63 comments

Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/11/quick-how-might-the-alien-spacecraft-work/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 59 comments

President Obama Should Shut Down the NSA’s Mass Spying Before It’s Too Late

http://time.com/4565149/obama-trump-nsa-surveillance/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 192 comments

Celery 4.0

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-4.0.html

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 50 comments

Finland plans to replace classic school subjects with broader “topics” (2015)

https://theconversation.com/finlands-school-reforms-wont-scrap-subjects-altogether-39328

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 81 comments

Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”

https://electrek.co/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-chip-supplier-self-driving-hardware-its-five-years-ahead/

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 168 comments

Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938484

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 214 comments

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

Office UI Fabric by Microsoft

https://dev.office.com/fabric

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp

https://bitbucket.org/tux_/rssparser.lisp

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 76 comments

A Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in “Arrival”

http://nautil.us/blog/the-scientist-who-helped-amy-adams-talk-to-aliens-in-arrival

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

Codehash.db – A public database for software and firmware hashes

https://github.com/rootkovska/codehash.db

10 years ago

★ 215 Standard ML
111 upvotes – 29 comments

Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (2014)

https://slehar.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/clifford-algebra-a-visual-introduction/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple is doubling down on open source

http://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/apple-is-doubling-down-on-open-source/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 88 comments

How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/how-to-accept-bitcoin-payments.html

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-river-of-lost-souls-runs-through-western-colorado/2016/11/03/154fd1a0-8651-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

NES Classic Mini boot image dump method via UART and USB

https://www.ns-koubou.com/blog/2016/11/11/nes_classic/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936650

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 117 comments

Rook – Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage in Alpha

https://github.com/rook/rook

10 years ago

★ 13.4k Go Apache-2.0
84 upvotes – 13 comments

Slow email replies cause serious anxiety

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161103-your-slow-email-replies-are-causing-serious-anxiety

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

Google Pixel pwned in 60 seconds

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/google_pixel_pwned_in_60_seconds/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

A road map collection that could help researchers

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/robert-berlo-map-collection/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

What I learned from competing against a ConvNet on ImageNet (2014)

http://karpathy.github.io/2014/09/02/what-i-learned-from-competing-against-a-convnet-on-imagenet/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

World of Commodore 2016

http://www.tpug.ca/world-of-commodore-16/about/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – ICLR 2017 Discoveries

https://amundtveit.com/2016/11/12/deep-learning-for-natural-language-processing-iclr-2017-discoveries/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments
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