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

Things You Notice When You Quit the News

http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/

9 years ago

891 upvotes – 487 comments

Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150144

9 years ago

779 upvotes – 678 comments

Run Unix processes inside your browser

https://browsix.org/

9 years ago

484 upvotes – 124 comments

Why we chose Vue.js over React

http://pixeljets.com/blog/why-we-chose-vuejs-over-react

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 249 comments

The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/SEA/katzbio.txt

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 122 comments

Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/11/proposed-server-purchase-for-gitlab-com/

9 years ago

356 upvotes – 320 comments

Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13493

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 113 comments

Spaced repetition

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 115 comments

uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/ublock-origin/9nblggh444l4

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 204 comments

German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/german-judges-explain-why-adblock-plus-is-legal/

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 269 comments

All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (2014)

http://www.sciencealert.com/all-of-richard-feynmans-physics-lectures-are-now-available-free-online?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMoreAll

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 38 comments

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/o8e/how_i_use_anki_to_learn_mathematics/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 46 comments

The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/11/30/nvidia-deep-learning-ai-intel/#5ded7d2a39cc

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 123 comments

Function multi-versioning in GCC 6

https://lwn.net/Articles/691932/

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 15 comments

Linux 4.9 is out

https://lwn.net/Articles/708766/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 44 comments

Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 55 comments

In Defense of Inclusionism

https://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 171 comments

Happy 23rd Birthday, DOOM

http://rome.ro/news/2016/12/10/happy-23rd-birthday-doom

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 79 comments

Crytek has not paid wages, employees are leaving

http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/source-crytek-is-sinking-wages-are-unpaid-talent-leaving-on-a-daily-basis/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 130 comments

Dark corners of Unicode (2015)

https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 52 comments

Distributed Named Pipes

http://dnpip.es

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 30 comments

A Reason Why Your Contractual Agreement Shouldn't Be a “Work for Hire”

https://blog.craftblue.com/2016/12/work-for-hire-freelance-contractual-agreement/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 34 comments

An open source deep learning curriculum

http://www.deeplearningweekly.com/pages/open_source_deep_learning_curriculum

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 14 comments

Great Problems: An Epidemic of Rent-Seeking

https://devinhelton.com/2013/04/14/rent-seeking-economy/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

Some Tools for Go Lang That You Might Not Know Yet

https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/some-tools-for-go-that-you-might-not-know-yet/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and distorts how we see

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world?CMP=fb_gu

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 114 comments

Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-based VMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00467

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Dichronauts

http://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/12/9/13881712/move-government-to-midwest

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 113 comments

Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/state-machine.pdf

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Last.Backend becomes open-source

https://blog.lastbackend.com/post/opensource/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/12/02/takes-build-true-fpga-service/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Web Bluetooth

https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Kenya’s M-Pesa has helped the poor, and the economy, while turning a profit

http://fortune.com/2016/12/10/mobile-banking-poverty-research/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

People Are Dying Younger Because America Keeps Failing the Bad-Break Test

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/america-is-failing-the-bad-break-test-and-people-are-dying.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Quarter of inmates could have been spared prison without risk, study says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/11/prison-inmates-us-public-safety-incarceration

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Burnout [audio]

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/12/07/504734219/episode-740-burnout

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Consistency Models of Cloud Storage Services

https://cloudrail.com/compare-consistency-models-of-cloud-storage-services/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/12/yik-yak-fires-30-of-50-employees-still-has-no-business-model/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 70 comments

CIA Concludes Russian Interference Aimed to Elect Trump

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/10/505072304/cia-concludes-russian-interference-aimed-to-elect-trump

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments
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