top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-16

The Idea of Lisp

https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp

9 years ago

488 upvotes – 340 comments

Show HN: Hire an Oldster

http://tryoldster.com/

9 years ago

475 upvotes – 295 comments

Google Web Designer (2013)

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

9 years ago

437 upvotes – 150 comments

Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective

https://medium.com/@smsowmya/harassment-at-apple-my-perspective-ea0168e15002#.1rx8vvcxp

9 years ago

406 upvotes – 604 comments

I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

https://words.motel.is/i-thought-i-was-designing-for-spacex-i-was-actually-designing-for-the-silk-road-4b4b64834868#.9gelegsu1

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 129 comments

Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/tom-wheeler-resigns-fcc-long-net-neutrality/

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 204 comments

Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

http://www.wsj.com/articles/look-whos-back-microsoft-rebooted-emerges-as-a-tech-leader-1481900876?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 286 comments

MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval

http://blog.frizk.net/2016/12/filevault-password-retrieval.html

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 83 comments

Super Mario Run

https://supermariorun.com

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 243 comments

Rust required to build Gecko

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/Gzwh1IbxvHE/7RlO21I6DwAJ

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 141 comments

Stroustrup's Rule and Layering Over Time in Rust

https://thefeedbackloop.xyz/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-over-time/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 73 comments

Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/breaking-prenda-law-copyright-trolls-steele-and-hansmeier-arrested/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 79 comments

Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density

http://humantransit.org/2016/12/sounding-the-alarm-about-ubers-impacts-on-transit.html

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 229 comments

NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation

http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-landmark.html

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 46 comments

Web Fundamentals

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: 30 Days of React

https://www.fullstackreact.com/30-days-of-react/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 21 comments

Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/why-i-studied-full-time-for-8-months-for-a-google-interview-cc662ce9bb13

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 190 comments

French journal Mediapart supports Tails, others should too

https://tails.boum.org/news/mediapart/index.en.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 16 comments

Watt time is left

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/watt-time-is-left

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 161 comments

The Great A.I. Awakening

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 139 comments

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 18 comments

Pardon Edward Snowden

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/pardon-edward-snowden

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

React-MD – React components built with Sass

https://react-md.mlaursen.com/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype

https://medium.com/the-mission/rocket-ai-2016s-most-notorious-ai-launch-and-the-problem-with-ai-hype-d7908013f8c9

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 48 comments

How to make Linux more trustworthy

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/12/how-to-make-linux-more-trustworthy/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

Why is .NET reflection slow?

http://www.mattwarren.org/2016/12/14/Why-is-Reflection-slow/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

NASA just launched 8 satellites from a rocket dropped from a plane at 40,000ft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/nasa_orbital_atk_cygnss_launch/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/fedora-25-review-the-best-linux-distro-of-2016-arrived-at-the-last-moment/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 172 comments

Reversing Go Binaries Like a Pro

https://rednaga.io/2016/09/21/reversing_go_binaries_like_a_pro/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 27 comments

First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 85 comments

Google launches developer preview of Android Things

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/google-launches-developer-preview-of-android-things-its-new-iot-platform/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 68 comments

Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cisco-confirms-its-killing-intercloud-public-cloud-in-march-2017/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 125 comments

ANTLR 4.6 Released

http://www.antlr.org/download.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic-rp

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

VR Resources

http://facebook.design/vr

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/hospitals-death-rates-quality-vary-widely.html?src=me

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 58 comments

CoreOS Linux Is Now Container Linux by CoreOS

https://coreos.com/blog/tectonic-self-driving.html#coreos-linux-is-now-container-linux

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 59 comments

Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data

http://norvig.com/ngrams/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Chinese warship stole US underwater drone

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/chinese-warship-underwater-drone-stolen/index.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 139 comments

RediSQL – A Redis module that provides a functional SQL database

https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL

9 years ago

★ 1.5k C
90 upvotes – 54 comments

American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-16/american-firms-want-to-keep-older-workers-a-bit-longer

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 93 comments

Oracle finally targets Java non-payers six years after plucking Sun

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/?mt=1481919461669

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 86 comments

First steps forward with Fitbit

https://developer.pebble.com/blog/2016/12/14/first-steps-forward-with-fitbit/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Mistakes Developers Make When Learning Design

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/mistakes-developers-make-when-learning-design/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/15/13976806/immigration-maternity-leave-grid-software-president-trump-tech-meeting

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

A Warning to People Who Bike: Self-Driving Ubers and Right Hook Turns

http://www.sfbike.org/news/a-warning-to-people-who-bike-self-driving-ubers-and-right-hook-turns/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 87 comments
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