top 50% 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

Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/verizon-weighs-scrapping-yahoo-deal-on-hacking-liability?utm_content=tech&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 176 comments

Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490)

http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/leonardo-da-vincis-to-do-list-circa-1490-is-much-cooler-than-yours.html

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 68 comments

The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38308842

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 229 comments

My Priorities for the Next Four Years

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/my_priorities_f.html

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 147 comments

The First Annual Underhanded Rust Contest

https://underhanded.rs/blog/2016/12/15/underhanded-rust.en-US.html

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 25 comments

Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt More Than They Help

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/psychiatrists-must-face-possibility-that-medications-hurt-more-than-they-help/

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 179 comments

Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO

http://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_no_match_for_10_vps_from_linode_do_vultr

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 41 comments

A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks

https://jalammar.github.io/visual-interactive-guide-basics-neural-networks/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 5 comments

Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/moody-s-wireline-providers-are-under-investing-broadband

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE

https://www.jetbrains.com/go

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 144 comments

Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup

https://codingvc.com/how-to-use-thought-experiments-to-de-risk-your-startup/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server

https://github.com/samonzeweb/godb

9 years ago

★ 732 Go MIT
205 upvotes – 88 comments

BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/12/google-bigquery-public-datasets-now-include-stack-overflow-q-a

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firefox-hardware-report/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 140 comments

Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-oppose-muslim-database-20161214-story.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 294 comments

Unscii – A set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts

http://pelulamu.net/unscii/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 28 comments

Why numbering should start at zero (1982)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 216 comments

Microsoft Office 365 beats out Google’s G Suite in S&P 1500

https://tech.winton.com/blog/2016/12/technology-leadership

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 143 comments

Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/tree/master/

9 years ago

★ 13.4k Python AGPL-3.0
129 upvotes – 27 comments

Wells Fargo’s ‘Living Will’ Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/business/dealbook/wells-fargo-regulators.html?ref=dealbook

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 89 comments

Material Components Preview

https://material.io/components/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav-online.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/E2248.full.pdf

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

http://ipv6tree.bitnet.be/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/12/v8-nodejs.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Learn Apollo: Build GraphQL Apps with React, React Native or Exponent

https://www.learnapollo.com/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-jump-ship-from-evernote-and-take-your-data-with-1782841075

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Thomas Edison’s Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888

http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/thomas-edisons-hugely-ambitious-to-do-list-from-1888.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Building web applications on top of encrypted data using Mylar [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/popa-mylar-2016-08-29.pdf

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

Experts, True Believers and Test-Driven Development: how advice becomes a religion

https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/12/15/experts-vs-zealots/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 100 comments

News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/12/news-feed-fyi-addressing-hoaxes-and-fake-news/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 141 comments

Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-the-soviets-revolutionized-wristwatches/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Zygomys – An embedded scripting language for Go

https://github.com/glycerine/zygomys

9 years ago

★ 1.7k Go BSD-2-Clause
83 upvotes – 139 comments

Programming Music: The Applications of Algorithmic Composition [pdf]

https://getinspired.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/MU208_Report.pdf

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: GoboLinux 016 featuring Runner, a filesystem virtualization tool

http://gobolinux.org/gobolinux016.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

SaaS Onboarding Metrics for Developers

http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/saas-onboarding-metrics-for-developers.html

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Revised estimates of the share of national income going to top earners

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/rising-income-inequality-usa-piketty-study

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 85 comments
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