top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-12-15

Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team

https://diracdeltas.github.io/blog/surveillance/

9 years ago

1009 upvotes – 280 comments

World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/world-energy-hits-a-turning-point-solar-that-s-cheaper-than-wind

9 years ago

785 upvotes – 301 comments

German research institutions boycott Elsevier

https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/news/details/voraussichtlich-keine-volltexte-von-zeitschriften-des-elsevier-verlags-ab-dem-112017/

9 years ago

764 upvotes – 121 comments

Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly

http://godbolt.org/

9 years ago

602 upvotes – 151 comments

GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap

9 years ago

540 upvotes – 568 comments

The Talk

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

9 years ago

448 upvotes – 46 comments

Amazon Restaurants

https://primenow.amazon.com/restaurants

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 210 comments

Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/science/scientists-say-they-can-reset-clock-of-aging-for-mice-at-least.html?referer=https://pay.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5ijdkz/in_the_first_attempt_to_reverse_aging_by/

9 years ago

316 upvotes – 197 comments

Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming

http://www.pyret.org/

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 267 comments

Advice on learning Python efficiently

http://www.simplydjango.com/learn-python-efficiently/

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 73 comments
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