top 50% 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

Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to partisan factual questions

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19080

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 166 comments

Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38341901

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 123 comments

Rolling Your Own Crypto

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/rolling-your-own-crypto

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 150 comments

Careers in security, ethical hacking and advice on where to get started

https://www.troyhunt.com/careers-in-security-ethical-hacking-and-advice-on-where-to-get-started/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 84 comments

Stack identical flat objects so they project over an edge as far as possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161202-overhang-puzzle-solution/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 38 comments

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/20/egypt-blocks-signal/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 133 comments

Daala: Modern video compression for the internet

https://github.com/xiph/daala

9 years ago

★ 558 C BSD-2-Clause
146 upvotes – 38 comments

Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/were-getting-rid-of-comments-on-vice?utm_source=vicetwitterus

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 218 comments

U.S. Startups Taking on Debt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-19/u-s-startups-are-piling-on-debt

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 66 comments

Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/12/facebook-whatsapp-european-commission-charges-misleading-merger-claim/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 70 comments

Withdrawal from Antidepressants

https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 127 comments

Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-19/if-the-u-s-won-t-pay-its-teachers-china-will

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 146 comments

Linux at 20, some personal memories (2011)

http://liw.fi/linux20/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

The Secret Life of Time

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

V8: Behind the Scenes (December Edition)

http://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/20/v8-behind-the-scenes-december-edition/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

The Music of the Future

http://www.futuresymphony.org/the-music-of-the-future/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or do a lot of people not know how stock options work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13223102

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments

Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming [pdf]

http://www.stroustrup.com/good_concepts.pdf

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Do SMBs still care about their websites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220002

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 58 comments

The end of cloud computing [video]

http://a16z.com/2016/12/16/the-end-of-cloud-computing/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

A defense of Christianity helped unlock the secrets of the brain

http://nautil.us/blog/how-a-defense-of-christianity-revolutionized-brain-science

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 66 comments

Hawaii's Final Sugar Cargo Departs Maui Aboard 'Moku Pahu'

https://gcaptain.com/final-sugar-cargo-departs-maui-aboard-maku-pahu/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments

‘MormonWikileaks’ website launched, seeking transparency in LDS Church

http://fox13now.com/2016/12/19/mormonwikileaks-website-launched-seeking-transparency-in-lds-church/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

StatefulSet: Run and Scale Stateful Applications Easily in Kubernetes

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/statefulset-run-scale-stateful-applications-in-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1B in Satellite Startup OneWeb

http://www.wsj.com/articles/satellite-startup-oneweb-raises-1-2-billion-in-funding-round-led-by-softbank-1482142137

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Solar System’s biggest asteroid is an ancient ocean world

http://www.nature.com/news/solar-system-s-biggest-asteroid-is-an-ancient-ocean-world-1.21166

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Amazon

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/how-enable-two-factor-authentication-amazon

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218918

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 136 comments

GitHub Is Doing Much Better Than Bloomberg Thinks

https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-than-bloomberg-thinks-here-is-why-a4580b249044#.gslnf22wg

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Matchmaker, find me a grant

http://www.nature.com/news/matchmaker-matchmaker-find-me-a-grant-1.21191

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments
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