top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-10

My Pixel has a manufacturing defect

https://9to5google.com/2016/12/09/google-pixel-screen-peeling-support/

9 years ago

544 upvotes – 344 comments

Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them

http://generals.io/

9 years ago

357 upvotes – 157 comments

Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ selective trust

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161206125158.htm

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 111 comments

Neurogenesis linked to aerobic exercise

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/how-neuroscientists-explain-the-mind-clearing-magic-of-running.html

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 80 comments

LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown

http://www.nature.com/news/ligo-black-hole-echoes-hint-at-general-relativity-breakdown-1.21135

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 96 comments

How to learn hacking

http://fsecurify.com/how-to-learn-hacking/

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I'm Making Python 2.8

https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 379 comments

Tips for Self-Learning Programming

http://blog.hiphipjorge.com/tips-for-learning-programming/

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 53 comments

Why I Regret Making My House a Smart-House (2013)

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/2013/08/14/why-i-regret-making-my-house-a-smart-house

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 167 comments

Cryptomancer RPG

http://cryptorpg.com/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 57 comments

Ransomware gives free decryption keys to victims who infect their friends

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-scheme-spread-popcorn-time-ransomware-get-chance-of-free-decryption-key/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 123 comments

Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

https://www.winehq.org/news/2016120901

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 77 comments

Fast Fourier transform in x86 assembly

https://www.nayuki.io/page/fast-fourier-transform-in-x86-assembly

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 92 comments

Write a toy strace and gdb

http://hondu.co/blog/write-a-strace-and-gdb

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 6 comments

Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real entrepreneurship

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11765609/Start-up-culture-is-corrupting-our-youth-and-killing-real-entrepreneurship.html

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

A short critique of Stallmanism

http://jancorazza.com/2016/09/24/a-short-critique-of-stallmanism/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 197 comments

Where Do the Failed 0.1% Go? (2015) [pdf]

http://www.t3x.org/files/vidya_324-325_NH_reprint.pdf

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 170 comments

How my startup failed (1999)

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=41260

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 21 comments

Toy decompiler for x86-64 written in Python [pdf]

https://yurichev.com/writings/toy_decompiler.pdf

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 10 comments

Simplify Service Dependencies with Nodes

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/simplify-service-dependencies-with-nodes

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Amazon workers sleeping in tents

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-workers-sleeping-in-tents-near-dunfermline-site/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 144 comments

Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten

https://blog.google/topics/google-europe/reflecting-right-be-forgotten/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 213 comments

Imzy wants to be a kinder, gentler version of Reddit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/it-s-like-reddit-without-the-trolls

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 326 comments

Python 3.6 – Asynchronous Comprehensions

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0530/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 37 comments

ESPN subscriber losses raise questions about the TV ecosystem

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/07/one-of-disneys-most-popular-brands-has-investors-really-worried/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: xOS – a 32-bit OS for the PC

https://github.com/omarrx024/xos

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/law-enforcement-uses-border-search-exception-fourth-amendment-loophole

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

Akaros: open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures

http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/news.php

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 6 comments

An FBI Error Opens a Window into Government Demands for Private Info

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-fbi-error-opens-a-window-into-government-demands-for-private-info/?ex_cid=538twitter

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

The Last Resort, Robert De Niro's Forgotten '90s Adventure Game

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exploring-the-last-resort-robert-de-niros-forgotten-90s-adventure-game

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Text Emoticon Generator

https://ascii.li/emoticon-creator?ref=hn

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

How leaving a corporate job to join a startup fucked me up and sorted my life

https://byrslf.co/how-leaving-a-corporate-job-to-join-a-startup-f-ked-me-up-and-sorted-my-life-out-97f68ea14c28#.h85311vfe

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Vitamin pills don't work and may be bad for you

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161208-why-vitamin-supplements-could-kill-you

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 107 comments

The Inner Ring (1944)

http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Introduction to Parallel Computing

https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Large brand wants to buy my side project, what should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13148360

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 63 comments

Interview with Max Levchin

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/business/max-levchin-of-affirm-seeking-the-endurance-athletes-of-business.html?smid=tw-share

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments
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