top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-14

Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts

https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/154479236569/important-security-information-for-yahoo-users

9 years ago

1046 upvotes – 569 comments

New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memorized-secret-verifiers

9 years ago

642 upvotes – 304 comments

Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps

https://kickstarter.engineering/open-sourcing-our-android-and-ios-apps-6891be909fcd#.9bls0yl69

9 years ago

571 upvotes – 73 comments

One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers

http://matthewsag.com/?p=1642

9 years ago

489 upvotes – 233 comments

Starting a real business

https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-guide

9 years ago

458 upvotes – 128 comments

CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland

https://republique-et-canton-de-geneve.github.io/chvote-1-0/index-en.html

9 years ago

437 upvotes – 192 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.8

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8

9 years ago

407 upvotes – 190 comments

I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers/

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 167 comments

Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

http://blog.triplebyte.com/does-it-make-sense-for-programmers-to-move-to-the-bay-area

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 503 comments

A Git query language

https://github.com/cloudson/gitql

9 years ago

★ 6.2k Go MIT
352 upvotes – 67 comments

Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/200-filmmakers-ask-nikon-canon-sell-encrypted-cameras/

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 207 comments

AI Programmer’s Bookshelf

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/aibooks.html

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 26 comments

Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 3 comments

Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 207 comments

Haskell in the Datacentre

https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2016-12-08-Haskell-in-the-datacentre.html

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 43 comments

Rust gets a faster sort implementation

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38192

9 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
224 upvotes – 20 comments

Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Indra Nooyi to Join Presidential Advisory Council

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-forum-idUSKBN1431KU

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 173 comments

Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-ordered-to-stop-self-driving-vehicle-service-in-san-francisco/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 233 comments

Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-14/with-an-airdrop-of-popcorn-amazon-makes-drone-delivery-history

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 196 comments

Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate

https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-2-2-the-release-candidate-2e614d05d75f#.3nrnoh6zc

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 86 comments

Containerd – An open and reliable container runtime, by Docker

https://github.com/docker/containerd/

9 years ago

★ 114 Go Apache-2.0
190 upvotes – 35 comments

A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks (2007)

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/neural/local.html

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 17 comments

Git Cheat Sheet

https://gist.github.com/akras14/3d242d80af8388ebca60

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

RFC 7764 – Guidance on Markdown

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7764

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 109 comments

Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/13/505434080/scientists-report-the-arctic-is-melting-even-more-rapidly

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 269 comments

Practical Reverse Engineering Part 5 – Digging Through the Firmware

http://jcjc-dev.com/2016/12/14/reversing-huawei-5-reversing-firmware/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 6 comments

What Kubernetes users should know about the rkt container engine

https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-and-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 28 comments

Coq 8.6 is out

https://coq.inria.fr/news/134.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 88 comments

How to run a meeting (1976)

https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

Italian doctors successfully transplant a kidney in the place of the spleen

http://www.thelocal.it/20161214/italian-doctors-transplant-kidney-for-spleen-in-world-first

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 71 comments

The Public Domain C Library

http://pdclib.e43.eu/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from brain concentration

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/in-trump-country-the-brain-drain-takes-a-toll-bloomberg-index

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 82 comments

Trump Names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to Advisory Team – TheHill

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/310321-trump-names-elon-musk-uber-ceo-to-advisory-team

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 91 comments

Making an MSX font

http://www.ateijelo.com/blog/2016/09/13/making-an-msx-font

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Master List of Data Broker Opt-Out Links

http://www.stopdatamining.me/opt-out-list/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 48 comments

If you don't talk to your kids about quantum mechanics, someone else will

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-4

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 2 comments

Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rights abuses in the U.S

https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2016/12/13/why-tech-worker-resistance-is-crucial-to-preventing-large-scale-human-rights-abuses-in-the-u-s/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 221 comments

LLVM's New Versioning Scheme

http://blog.llvm.org/2016/12/llvms-new-versioning-scheme.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

Windows update knocks out internet connections

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38301548

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 170 comments

The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/13/505349283/meet-the-spleen-the-strange-little-organ-that-can-multiply

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

https://medium.com/initialized-capital/how-a-rust-belt-native-and-silicon-valley-technologist-is-re-thinking-american-manufacturing-b4e0388f8eca#

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing the React VR Pre-Release

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/introducing-the-react-vr-pre-release/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Project Springfield: A Cloud Service Built in F#

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/12/13/project-springfield-a-cloud-service-built-entirely-in-f/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Evernote Employees Can Read Your Notes

http://lifehacker.com/evernote-employees-can-read-your-notes-and-theres-no-w-1790099958

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers (710 bytes)

https://github.com/muicss/loadjs?a=1

9 years ago

★ 2.5k JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 24 comments

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy is linked to autism traits in the child

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/news/qbi-confirms-vitamin-d-link-autism-traits

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Alaska Air Acquires Virgin America

http://www.differentworks.com/?eml=EML-_VX_20161214_DealClose_20161214:A1_Greeter_1a_%7C%7C20161214_ASVX%7C%7C&utm_campaign=20161214&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TRANSACTIONAL

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Audio texture synthesis and style transfer

http://dmitryulyanov.github.io/audio-texture-synthesis-and-style-transfer/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Clover Health, an insurance startup trying to use data to keep customers healthy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/silicon-valley-is-trying-to-reinvent-health-care-starting-in-new-jersey

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Can jet engines clean up Delhi's air?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38285567

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 121 comments

Multilabel time series classification with LSTM

https://github.com/aqibsaeed/Multilabel-timeseries-classification-with-LSTM

9 years ago

★ 573 Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
81 upvotes – 9 comments

Donations received in 2016: 8506€

https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

NLP analysis of Pride and Prejudice

https://github.com/cytora/pycon-nlp-in-10-lines/blob/master/01_pride_and_predjudice.ipynb

9 years ago

★ 240 Jupyter Notebook
78 upvotes – 13 comments

Rosetta Wearable Disk

https://rosettaproject.org/disk/wearable/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/new-and-improved-privacy-badger-20-here

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What are your greatest productivity hacks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13177085

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Conductor – A microservices orchestration engine that runs in the cloud

http://netflix.github.io/conductor/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments
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