top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-12-20

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

http://course.fast.ai

9 years ago

683 upvotes – 91 comments

Blue Ocean

https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/

9 years ago

509 upvotes – 178 comments

Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil

https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-better-energy-return-on-investment-than-oil/

9 years ago

447 upvotes – 244 comments

Modern garbage collection

https://medium.com/@octskyward/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd8e#.674yqu7mr

9 years ago

434 upvotes – 243 comments

Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/technology/twitters-chief-technology-officer-to-leave-company.html

9 years ago

426 upvotes – 326 comments

How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 570 comments

Why are browsers so slow?

http://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/why-are-browsers-so-slow/

9 years ago

410 upvotes – 360 comments

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/19/apples-tim-cook-assures-employees-that-it-is-committed-to-the-mac-and-that-great-desktops-are-coming/

9 years ago

400 upvotes – 607 comments

20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT

https://512pixels.net/2016/12/20-years-ago-apple-bought-next/

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 254 comments

Excessive load on NTP servers

https://news.ntppool.org/2016/12/load/

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 150 comments

Learning from a Year of Security Breaches

https://medium.com/starting-up-security/learning-from-a-year-of-security-breaches-ed036ea05d9b

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 49 comments

No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/no-doctor-should-work-30-straight-hours/510395/?utm_source=nhfb&single_page=true

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 197 comments

Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefox-devtools/

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 119 comments

Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/12/20/methbot-biggest-ad-fraud-busted/#280f3a6c4ca8

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 128 comments

AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

9 years ago

★ 6.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
281 upvotes – 276 comments

Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-loss-exceeds-800-million-in-third-quarter-on-1-7-billion-in-net-revenue

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 407 comments

Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21711938-hauling-saudi-arabia-21st-century-saudi-arabia-adopts-gregorian?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/saudiarabiaadoptsthegregoriancalendar

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 180 comments

15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/810885087214637057

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 171 comments

New XPS 15 Laptop

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9560-laptop

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 331 comments

Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code

https://github.com/goessner/mdmath

9 years ago

★ 777 JavaScript MIT
225 upvotes – 61 comments
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