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

What Makes a Senior Software Developer?

http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/12/what-makes-senior-software-developer.html

9 years ago

536 upvotes – 238 comments

Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-review-for-or-publish-with-elsevier-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

9 years ago

525 upvotes – 140 comments

VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim

http://vimwiki.github.io/

9 years ago

515 upvotes – 120 comments

YC's Winter Reading List

http://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-winter-reading-list/?re=true

9 years ago

494 upvotes – 214 comments

Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z

http://taras.glek.net/post/Moto-Z-has-10x-less-lag-than-pixel/

9 years ago

484 upvotes – 197 comments

Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155589

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 273 comments

Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13159908

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 195 comments

How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage

https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request-bursts-of-over-a-million-per-minute-with-elixirs-genstage-8f899f0221b4#.lb9vf1xt5

9 years ago

382 upvotes – 161 comments

Hyper 1.0.0

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/releases/tag/1.0.0

9 years ago

★ 44.5k TypeScript MIT
333 upvotes – 210 comments

To Build a Better Ballot

http://ncase.me./ballot/

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 168 comments

Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change

http://qz.com/859860/bill-gates-is-leading-a-new-1-billion-fund-focused-on-combatting-climate-change-through-innovation/?linkId=32225791

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 139 comments

The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/music-industry-shouldnt-be-able-cut-your-internet-access

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 56 comments

Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit

https://backchannel.com/the-real-story-behind-pebbles-demise-303802a7afaa#.7uvcar7gj

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 200 comments

A map of the entire internet as of May 1973

https://twitter.com/workergnome/status/807704855276122114

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 50 comments

Radeon Instinct – Optimized Machine and Deep Learning

http://radeon.com/en-us/instinct/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 82 comments

7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/7500-faceless-coders-paid-bitcoin-built-hedge-funds-brain/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 101 comments

Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/2293-resolve-simple-merge-conflicts-on-github

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 67 comments

The .zip file specification is flawed

https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/48#issuecomment-266587526

9 years ago

★ 801 JavaScript MIT
214 upvotes – 118 comments

Linux on the Mac – state of the union

https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 138 comments

Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”

http://nautil.us/blog/why-a-post_nuclear-world-would-look-nothing-like-mad-max

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 251 comments

If you get rich, you won’t quit working for long

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161208-if-you-get-rich-you-wont-quit-working-for-long

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 237 comments

MacBook Pro Launch: Perplexing

https://mondaynote.com/macbook-pro-launch-perplexing-b47003037b2e#.hs0avj7se

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 178 comments

Is Sugar Killing Us?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-sugar-killing-us-1481303447?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 268 comments

Telomeres – Too much of a good thing?

http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2016/12/12/telomeres-too-much-of-a-good-thing/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 68 comments

American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/12/pf/paid-parental-leave-american-express/index.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 194 comments

Google’s self-driving car team prepares to spin out from Alphabet’s X

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/7/13875208/google-x-self-driving-spinout-alphabet

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 145 comments

Gates, Bezos, and 18 others commit $1B to new cleantech fund

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/11/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-and-18-others-commit-1-billion-to-new-cleantech-fund-breakthrough-energy-ventures/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

Latin America is set to become a leader in alternative energy

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21711307-power-andean-sun-latin-america-set-become-leader-alternative-energy?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/latinamericaissettobecomealeaderinalternativeenergy

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 92 comments

“BRAAAM”: The Sound That Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack

https://blog.longreads.com/2016/12/08/braaam-inception-hollywood-soundtracks/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 98 comments

How Worrying Can Actually Make You Sick

http://time.com/4554795/hypochondriac-heart-disease/?xid=newsletter-brief

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-lost-drawing-discovered.html?_r=0

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/12/13919312/microsoft-surface-sales-mac-switch

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 318 comments

Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden and the Modern Whistleblower

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg-edward-snowden-and-the-modern-whistleblower

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 92 comments

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and others launch fund to fight climate change

http://qz.com/859860/bill-gates-is-leading-a-new-1-billion-fund-focused-on-combatting-climate-change-through-innovation/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155095

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: If you use keybase.io regularly, for what do you primarily use it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13156336

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Microsoft: Mac Users Switching to Surface at Record Rates

https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/12/macbook-pro-disappointment-switching-surface/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 2 comments

An Introduction to Polymer - A Web Component Library

https://wearenorthern.com/blog/2016/polymer-is-the-whole-package/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/10/5-unexpected-sources-of-bias-in-artificial-intelligence/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Pixibot – Slack bot that makes text in posted images searchable

http://www.pixibot.co

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Controller in an Ubuntu LXD Machine Container

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/12/unifi-controller-in-lxd.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

Glenn Greenwald: Fake News That MSNBC Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Automated Pipelines to Your Kubernetes Clusters

https://www.distelli.com

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Million-Year-Old 'Hero Bug' Emerges From Cave

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/10/504691357/million-year-old-hero-bug-emerges-from-cave

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Interview with the author of React-like Inferno about JavaScript optimisations

http://survivejs.com/blog/inferno-interview/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 50 comments

Hotel Stays, Especially in Inclement Weather

http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/2016/12/hotel-stays-especially-in-inclement.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 69 comments

How Microsoft emerged from the darkness to embrace the cloud

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/how-microsoft-emerged-from-darkness-to-embrace-the-cloud/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/selfhealing-transistors-for-chipscale-starships

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 38 comments

Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Verifying Software with Timers and Clocks

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2016/12/verifying-software-with-timers-and-clocks-stacs.html

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments
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