top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-13

Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

http://waymo.com/

9 years ago

785 upvotes – 748 comments

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

9 years ago

631 upvotes – 327 comments

Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

http://radio.garden/

9 years ago

527 upvotes – 110 comments

Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-employees-stalked-celebrities-ex-employee-claims-2016-12

9 years ago

405 upvotes – 236 comments

Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/microsofts-surface-hub-sales-surprisingly-strong-its-a-huge-hardware-hit/

9 years ago

400 upvotes – 182 comments

A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X

https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/A-Backdoor-in-Skype-for-Mac-OS-X/

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 107 comments

Sharing National Security Letters with the Public

https://blog.google/topics/public-policy/sharing-national-security-letters-public/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way

http://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 22 comments

PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL

https://www.compose.com/articles/postgraphql-postgresql-meets-graphql

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 124 comments

The Rule of Silence (2006)

http://www.linfo.org/rule_of_silence.html

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 310 comments

Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

https://www.troyhunt.com/ubiquiti-all-the-things-how-i-finally-fixed-my-dodgy-wifi/

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 268 comments

Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13167156

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 161 comments

AMD Gives More Zen Details

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10907/amd-gives-more-zen-details-ryzen-34-ghz-nvme-neural-net-prediction-25-mhz-boost-steps

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 192 comments

Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/google-has-reportedly-stopped-developing-its-own-self-driving-car/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 223 comments

Slack Calls: Now with video

https://slackhq.com/slack-calls-now-with-100-more-video-50bf365a0d98#.tdyzbe5fc

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 123 comments

Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites

https://blog.gitprime.com/check-in-frequency-and-codebase-impact-the-surprising-correlation/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 94 comments

AirPods are now available

http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/12/apple-airpods-are-now-available.html

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 566 comments

Kubernetes 1.5.0 Released

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

9 years ago

★ 121.9k Go Apache-2.0
226 upvotes – 64 comments

Opendoor, a startup worth emulating

https://stratechery.com/2016/opendoor-a-startup-worth-emulating/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 142 comments

PR 101 for engineers

https://medium.com/@aneel/pr-101-for-engineers-7cd116cc5347#---0-233.ret21dbpx

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 28 comments

Neurogenesis Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03770

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 97 comments

China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-13/why-china-can-t-lure-tech-talent

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 364 comments

Microservices? Please Don't

https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-please-dont?oid=hn

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 122 comments

DynamoDB cannot store empty strings

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=90137

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 172 comments

Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]

http://www.kapor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Notes-Project.pdf

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

Pharma Execs Arrested Over Fentanyl Rackateering

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/pharmaceutical-executives-charged-racketeering-scheme

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 96 comments

Sane Thinking About Mental Health Problems

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/sane-thinking-about-mental-problems/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 103 comments

HIP: Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code

https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP

9 years ago

★ 4.3k C++ MIT
134 upvotes – 14 comments

American death rate from substance abuse and mental disorders triples since 1980

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8077.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 77 comments

Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/13/oculus-ceo-brendan-iribe-steps-down/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 121 comments

Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha

https://improbable.io/2016/12/13/google-partnership

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

https://peekier.com

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Apple removing battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints

https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/13/why-apple-is-removing-time-remaining-battery-life-estimates-macbook-pro/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 120 comments

Version SAT

https://research.swtch.com/version-sat

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Building a modern database using LLVM (2013) [pdf]

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Wanderman-Milne-Cloudera.pdf

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168798

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 84 comments

NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays

https://3ball.io

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy

http://sovereign.software

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 54 comments

Ok, let me explain: it’s going to be Angular 4.0

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/12/ok-let-me-explain-its-going-to-be.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

California man spent $1M playing Game of War

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/california-man-spent-1-million-playing-game-of-war/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 102 comments

Investors Get Ready for the Coming Electric Car Revolution

http://www.wsj.com/articles/mind-the-shock-as-auto-investing-turns-electric-1481626699

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Public servants sit idle as Australian Tax Office's IT melts down

http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/thousands-of-public-servants-sit-idle-as-atos-it-melts-down-20161213-gt9xfd.html

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Elementary proof that e is irrational

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/elementary-proof-that-e-is-irational

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: CSS Pokemon – created with clip-path and CSS variables

https://projects.lukehaas.me/css-pokemon/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

5th RISC-V Workshop Proceedings

https://riscv.org/2016/12/5th-risc-v-workshop-proceedings/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

An Internet propaganda campaign at your fingertips

https://it-was-fun-at-first.net/about

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

W. Brian Arthur popularized an economic theory that changed Silicon Valley

https://www.fastcompany.com/3064681/most-creative-people/most-important-economic-theory-in-technology-brian-arthur

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments
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