top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-18

Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor

http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/

9 years ago

493 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207268

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 108 comments

Gimli Glider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 198 comments

Maya – Python Datetimes for Humans

https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/introducing-maya-datetimes-for-humans

9 years ago

350 upvotes – 167 comments

Making SQL Server run on Linux

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/12/16/sql-server-on-linux-how-introduction/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 140 comments

How Unix made it to the top

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 122 comments

Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary [video]

http://www.boredpanda.com/find-my-phone-thief-stolen-smartphone-spying-cerberus-anthony-van-der-meer/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 142 comments

Ten Years at Google

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2016/12/18/

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 66 comments

Frequent sauna bathing can reduce the risk of dementia

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8286.html

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 151 comments

Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vpn-ban/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 97 comments

Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 126 comments

WoSign and letsencrypt.cn

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/E13eT13wMBQ

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 60 comments

Why physicists still use Fortran

http://www.moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 211 comments

The Longflow Manifesto

https://github.com/Nax/longflow-manifesto/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 632 MIT
204 upvotes – 181 comments

JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/top-javascript-frameworks-topics-to-learn-in-2017-700a397b711#.5ld817l5v

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 114 comments

Technology in Hostile States: Ten Principles for User Protection

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/technology-hostile-states-ten-principles-user-protection

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 17 comments

System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively

http://news.mit.edu/2016/system-loads-web%20pages-34-percent-faster-0309

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 101 comments

On Digital Minimalism

http://calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compiler Research [pdf]

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-lmandel/lattner.pdf

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 90 comments

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]

http://schemeworkshop.org/2006/11-ghuloum.pdf

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 19 comments

How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript

https://hackernoon.com/how-my-10-year-old-learned-javascript-d8782b586db7#.gpjilzh62

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 91 comments

Growth as a false signal in Y Combinator startups

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/18/growth-as-a-false-signal-in-y-combinator-startups/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook’s internal rules of deletion

http://international.sueddeutsche.de/post/154543271930/facebooks-secret-rules-of-deletion

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 65 comments

Inside Amazon's clickworker platform

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/inside-amazons-clickworker-platform-how-half-a-million-people-are-training-ai-for-pennies-per-task/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 51 comments

Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding

https://rasa.ai/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity

http://futurism.com/graphene-fed-silkworms-produce-a-super-strong-silk-that-conducts-electricity/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

GNU Hurd 0.9, GNU Mach 1.8, GNU MIG 1.8 Released

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2016-12-18-releases.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

WebAssembly initial steps tutorial

https://tutorials.technology/tutorials/11-webassembly-initial-steps-tutorial.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204437

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 139 comments

Consus: Fast Geo-Replicated Transactions

http://hack.systems/2016/12/13/hello-consus

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

Scanadu to shut down support for its Scout device and customers are mad

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/fda-orders-scanadu-to-shut-down-support-for-its-scout-device-and-customers-are-mad/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

How Sweden Has Redesigned Streets to Route Around Bad Behavior

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3066435/how-sweden-has-redesigned-streets-to-route-around-bad-human-behavior

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Postmodernism Generator

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python

http://libtmux.git-pull.com

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

Improving Supercharger Availability

https://www.tesla.com/blog/improving-supercharger-availability

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Method-1 Manned Robot Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6P7WP2N5w

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Why block Tor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13208116

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

The fourth industrial revolution: a primer on Artificial Intelligence

https://medium.com/mmc-writes/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-a-primer-on-artificial-intelligence-ai-ff5e7fffcae1

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

Code Inflation (2015) [pdf]

http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/Code_Inflation.pdf

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments
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