top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-07

Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

http://launchaco.com/build/

9 years ago

929 upvotes – 164 comments

Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/5gvgdl/using_a_amazon_kindle_fire_destroyed_my/

9 years ago

576 upvotes – 212 comments

Pebble's next step

https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/12/07/fitbit/

9 years ago

529 upvotes – 442 comments

Announcing TypeScript 2.1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/12/07/announcing-typescript-2-1/

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 222 comments

Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1751945575131606

9 years ago

438 upvotes – 158 comments

Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016

https://tryolabs.com/blog/2016/12/06/major-advancements-deep-learning-2016/

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 75 comments

Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65%

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/12/saving-data-reducing-the-size-of-app-updates-by-65-percent.html

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 136 comments

A Guide to the Breads of India

http://luckypeach.com/guides/guide-breads-india/

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 152 comments

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/intel-x86-documentation-has-more-pages.html

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 133 comments

Bluetooth 5 Now Available

https://www.bluetooth.com/news/pressreleases/2016/12/07/bluetooth-5-now-available

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half

http://itsupport.grammable.me/

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 215 comments

What’s New In Python 3.6

https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 126 comments

Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 294 comments

The State of Babel

https://babeljs.io/blog/2016/12/07/the-state-of-babel

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 102 comments

It's Not Cold Fusion but It's Something

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/its-not-cold-fusion-but-its-something/

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 203 comments

Predictive Learning [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKBnD5y2M8NREZod0tVdW5FLTQ/view

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 38 comments

Liquid Haskell: Haskell as a Theorem Prover [pdf]

http://goto.ucsd.edu/~nvazou/thesis/main.pdf

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume

https://www.cakeresume.com

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 120 comments

An Algebra of Graphs

https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/andreymokhov/an-algebra-of-graphs/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 69 comments

Burned house horizon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_house_horizon

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 62 comments

Introduction to K-means Clustering

https://www.datascience.com/blog/introduction-to-k-means-clustering-algorithm-learn-data-science-tutorials

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 19 comments

A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2004) [pdf]

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/pub/papers/lambda-calculus.pdf

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 18 comments

Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak

https://benbernardblog.com/tracking-down-a-freaky-python-memory-leak/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

DoomRL Open Source Release

https://github.com/ChaosForge/doomrl

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Pascal GPL-2.0
143 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds

https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/announcing-pyfilesystem-2/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 21 comments

Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 235 comments

Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 100 comments

“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (2008)

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 33 comments

Open sourcing Embedding Projector: a tool for visualizing high dimensional data

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/12/open-sourcing-embedding-projector-tool.html

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 14 comments

How Doctors Die (2011)

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes

https://blog.circle.com/2016/12/06/spark-new-markets-app-messaging-and-bitcoin-changes/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 77 comments

Avremu: An AVR Emulator Written in Pure LaTeX

https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

OAuth vs. SAML vs. OpenID Connect

http://www.gluu.co/oauth-saml-openid

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Night vision glasses: nanocrystals allow direct vision into infrared

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/nightvision-glasses-nanocrystals-developed-at-anu-allow-direct-vision-into-the-infrared-20161207-gt5vsf.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Salto – UC Berkeley’s Agile Jumping Robot

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/uc-berkeley-salto-is-the-most-agile-jumping-robot-ever

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/525W6rnP5Dc

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Why is there no CR1, and why are control registers such a mess anyway? (2010)

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=364

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Simple virtual machine, assembler, and C compiler

https://github.com/ronsoros/rvm

9 years ago

★ 219 C MIT
99 upvotes – 14 comments

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

https://github.com/crawl/crawl

9 years ago

★ 2.8k C++
98 upvotes – 40 comments

How the Z80’s 4-bit ALU works (2013)

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-how-it.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 41 comments

1 Patient, 7 Tumors and 100B Cells Equal 1 Striking Recovery

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/health/cancer-immunotherapy.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 3 comments

Setting up an HA Kubernetes cluster with private networking in AWS

https://www.nivenly.com/k8s-aws-private-networking/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Liberouter Combo Cards – FPGA boards focused on network data processing

https://www.liberouter.org/technologies/cards/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean

https://blog.containership.io/amazon-lightsail-vs.-digitalocean

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring

https://solutions.stacktile.io/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

BSD libc contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/548487

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Rethinking email confirmation

http://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/12/07/rethinking-email-confirmation/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

How to pay programmers less

http://www.yegor256.com/2016/12/06/how-to-pay-programmers-less.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

I was a robot and this is what I learned

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/07/i_was_a_robot_and_this_is_what_i_learned/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Fitbit Is Close to Buying Software Assets from Pebble

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-said-to-discuss-selling-software-assets-to-fitbit

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments
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