top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-01

How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

https://blog.data.gov.sg/how-we-caught-the-circle-line-rogue-train-with-data-79405c86ab6a#.qjsiufjb7

10 years ago

921 upvotes – 110 comments

AngelList acquires Product Hunt

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/angelhunt/

10 years ago

656 upvotes – 265 comments

Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/

10 years ago

478 upvotes – 170 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080280

10 years ago

458 upvotes – 829 comments

Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38167241

10 years ago

455 upvotes – 359 comments

Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/fitbit-pebble/

10 years ago

419 upvotes – 251 comments

My Google Internship

http://www.goldsborough.me/google/internship/2016/11/18/01-57-54-my_google_internship_/

10 years ago

359 upvotes – 259 comments

“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”

https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/802491391121260544

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 211 comments

"Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF'd in short term"

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/KBEVoB1

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 233 comments

Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-environment-idUSKBN13O059

10 years ago

280 upvotes – 169 comments

What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/27/what-this-here-compound-needs-is-some-hydrogen-peroxide

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 122 comments

IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-instances-in-virtual-private-clouds/

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

http://www.laptophits.com/

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 145 comments

AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

https://aws.amazon.com/xray/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 99 comments

AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection

https://aws.amazon.com/shield/

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 77 comments

The Busy Person’s Lies

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/sunday/the-busy-persons-lies.html?_r=1

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 191 comments

Why I wrote a book about interpreters

http://thorstenball.com/blog/2016/11/30/why-i-wrote-a-book-about-interpreters/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 69 comments

Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software

https://testing.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing-oss-fuzz-continuous-fuzzing.html

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 43 comments

Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/science/periodic-table-new-elements.html

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 102 comments

Internet Archive successfully fends off secret FBI order

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/01/internet-archive-fends-off-secret-fbi-order-in-latest-victory-against-nsls/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 34 comments

Introduction to strace

https://jorge.fbarr.net/2014/01/19/introduction-to-strace/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 24 comments

Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-one-understanding-ubers-bleak-operating-economics.html

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 112 comments

Blox – Open Source Tools for Amazon ECS

http://blox.github.io

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Nielsen estimates ESPN lost 555,000 subscribers during the last month

http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-another-555-000-subscribers-per-nielsen-112916

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 174 comments

Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/artificial-intelligence-generates-christmas-song-from-holiday-image/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 111 comments

Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-taxicommission-idUSKBN13Q3YD

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 200 comments

AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling

https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 43 comments

AWS Batch – Fully Managed Batch Processing

https://aws.amazon.com/batch/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/05/weird-pupils-let-octopuses-see-their-colorful-gardens/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21711041-rise-greenback-looks-something-welcome-ignore-central-role

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 142 comments

German Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-government-at-odds-with-industry-over-electric-cars-a-1123436.html

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 160 comments

Angular 2 is terrible

https://meebleforp.com/blog/36/angular-2-is-terrible

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

Lambda@Edge – Preview

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: H4ck 1t, multiplayer hacking game

http://gateway.h4ck1t.com/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning

https://medium.com/@juliendespois/finding-the-genre-of-a-song-with-deep-learning-da8f59a61194#.r28dkpg2e

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Young blood does not reverse aging in old mice, UC Berkeley study finds

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/22/young-blood-does-not-reverse-aging-in-old-mice-uc-berkeley-study-finds/

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington state

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/zenefits-ordered-to-stop-offering-free-insurance-software-in-washington-state/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Court Rules IRS Can Seek Information on Bitcoin Customers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/court-rules-irs-can-seek-information-on-bitcoin-customers-1480569311

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/when-einstein-tilted-at-windmills

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal U.S. emissions

http://news.yale.edu/2016/11/30/losses-soil-carbon-under-global-warming-might-equal-us-emissions

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Who is firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081362

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Benchmarking Commit Logs: NATS Streaming vs. Apache Kafka

http://bravenewgeek.com/benchmarking-commit-logs/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: GUI for Data Modeling with Elasticsearch

https://github.com/appbaseio/gem/blob/dev/README.md

10 years ago

★ 661 JavaScript Apache-2.0
74 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080281

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 111 comments

First real evidence of a strange quantum distortion in empty space

http://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-the-first-real-evidence-of-a-strange-quantum-distortion-in-empty-space?

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011)

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

AWS Step Functions – Build Distributed Applications Using Visual Workflows

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

YC grad Workramp lands $1.8M seed round

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/yc-grad-workramp-lands-1-8-million-seed-round/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Announcing C# Support for AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-c-sharp-support-for-aws-lambda/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

The Relativity of Wrong (1989)

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments
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