top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-08

'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience

http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html

9 years ago

911 upvotes – 510 comments

John Glenn has died

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/12/john-glenn/john-glenn.html

9 years ago

797 upvotes – 152 comments

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline

9 years ago

632 upvotes – 441 comments

Talks that changed the way I think about programming

http://www.opowell.com/post/talks-that-changed-the-way-i-think-about-programming/

9 years ago

593 upvotes – 95 comments

Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013)

https://istacee.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/kent-beck-i-get-paid-for-code-that-works-not-for-tests/

9 years ago

550 upvotes – 354 comments

1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/10/07/magic/

9 years ago

522 upvotes – 100 comments

LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip

http://www.lowrisc.org/

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 92 comments

Belarus finally bans Tor

https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook

https://handbook.clerky.com/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 50 comments

Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13881930/microsoft-turn-a-phone-into-a-pc-arm-continuum

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 206 comments

U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/supreme-court-curbs-excessive-design-patent-damages

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 193 comments

The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash

http://www.askthepilot.com/silent-anniversary/

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 163 comments

Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/technology/personaltech/worried-about-the-privacy-of-your-messages-download-signal.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161208&nl=dealbook&nl_art=4&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 239 comments

Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-08/facebook-s-investors-criticize-marc-andreessen-for-conflict-of-interest?hn=1

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 117 comments

Lego Is the Perfect Toy

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/lego-is-the-perfect-toy.html

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 116 comments

Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool

http://blog.robertelder.org/don-libes-expect-unix-automation-tool/

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 102 comments

Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds in the U.S. Earn More Than Their Parents Did at 30

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-american-dream-is-fading-and-may-be-very-hard-to-revive-1481218911

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 383 comments

AWS announces new region in Canada

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/announcing-the-aws-canada-central-region/

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 112 comments

Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/7953.html

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 39 comments

Start building Actions on Google

https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/start-building-actions-on-google.html

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 62 comments

Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/17 features

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/#safaritp

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 124 comments

Jest – Painless JavaScript Testing

http://facebook.github.io/jest/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 61 comments

Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/08/just-say-no-to-paxos-overhead-replacing-consensus-with-network-ordering/

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 60 comments

The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive

http://robservatory.com/the-finders-gui-tax-can-be-very-expensive/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 121 comments

Implement table partitioning

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=f0e44751d7175fa3394da2c8f85e3ceb3cdbfe63

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf]

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 140 comments

An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/readers-popular-websites-targeted-stealthy-stegano-exploit-kit-hiding-pixels-malicious-ads/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 91 comments

When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus saved him

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/will-viruses-save-us-from-superbugs

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

Comparing Haskell and Node concurrency performance

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2016/12/concurrency-and-node

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 107 comments

Fogging your Google search history with Python and Reddit

http://howlroundmusic.org/wp/?p=23

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

How the number zero was ‘discovered’

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161206-we-couldnt-live-without-zero-but-we-once-had-to

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 43 comments

What Former Employees Say ITT Tech Did to Scam Its Students

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/502601724/what-former-employees-say-itt-tech-did-to-scam-its-students

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 79 comments

Data Wrangling at Slack

https://slack.engineering/data-wrangling-at-slack-f2e0ff633b69

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 71 comments

How to Use Clojure for Scripting

http://asimjalis.github.io/blog/2016/12/07/clojure-for-scripting.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%e2%80%93-soda%e2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 69 comments

Why I switched from Vim to Emacs

https://matthaffner.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/why-i-switched-from-vim-to-emacs/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 101 comments

U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

A Provably Secure Proof-Of-Stake Blockchain Protocol

https://github.com/input-output-hk/pos-haskell-prototype

9 years ago

★ 3.7k Haskell Apache-2.0
93 upvotes – 30 comments

There’s Something Funny in the Air on Mars

http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/67/theres-something-funny-in-the-air-on-mars

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Surprise – a simple recommender system library for Python

http://surpriselib.com/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Sears reports $748M net loss [pdf]

http://searsholdings.com/docs/investor/eap/q3-2016-shc-earnings-release.pdf

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 110 comments

ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs? Hell Yes

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/86298/arm-based-windows-10-portable-pcs-hell-yes

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 117 comments

About pull request reviews

https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-request-reviews/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: How are you doing performance appraisal at your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130547

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

24 days of Rust – serde

https://siciarz.net/24-days-rust-serde/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330961

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Models for hierarchical data (2010)

http://www.slideshare.net/billkarwin/models-for-hierarchical-data

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments
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