top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-21

Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine

http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023

9 years ago

Update on Multi-Process Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/12/21/update-on-multi-process-firefox/

9 years ago

UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data

https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/press-releases-and-statements/government-breaking-law-collecting-everyones-internet-and-call

9 years ago

Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/21389

9 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT

Four years with Rust

http://words.steveklabnik.com/four-years-with-rust

9 years ago

How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities

https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/how-skype-fixes-security-vulnerabilities/?1

9 years ago

Why Are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive?

https://maori.geek.nz/why-are-ultrasound-machines-so-expensive-623ce91d8402#.i248tzcq5

9 years ago

Why I Only Work Remotely

https://medium.com/@yanismydj/why-i-only-work-remotely-2e5eb07ae28f#.4kfetslon

9 years ago

A Git catastrophe cleaned up

http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-tastrophe.html

9 years ago

The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/upshot/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation.html

9 years ago

Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6M scheme has to pay it back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/20/famed-poker-pro-with-remarkable-9-6-million-scheme-has-to-pay-it-back-judge-rules/

9 years ago

Employee sues Google for 'illegal' confidentiality policies

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/20/employee-sues-google-for-illegal-confidentiality-policies/

9 years ago

Taking a month off from OSS volunteering

https://snarky.ca/why-i-took-october-off-from-oss-volunteering/

9 years ago

PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (2014)

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-anti-patterns-read-modify-write-cycles/

9 years ago

Apple’s rotten appeal

http://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-apples-rotten-appeal/

9 years ago

Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13232883

9 years ago

GPU folks: we need to talk about control flow

https://medium.com/@afd_icl/gpu-folks-we-need-to-talk-about-control-flow-c20fd225197e#.t8zrzrc46

9 years ago

Linux Container Internals

http://docker-saigon.github.io/post/Docker-Internals/

9 years ago

GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-pages/#usage-limits

9 years ago

A Fortran Web Framework

https://fortran.io/

9 years ago

Rails 5.0.1 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/12/21/Rails-5-0-1-has-been-released/

9 years ago

Amazon Dash Button's Wireless Audio Configuration

http://www.blog.jay-greco.com/wp/?p=116

9 years ago

Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with great free tiers

https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget

9 years ago

★ 12.3k MIT

Tool AIs want to be agent AIs

http://www.gwern.net/Tool%20AI

9 years ago

Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/windows-server-support-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

Microsoft wins $927M Pentagon contract

http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1035122

9 years ago

Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/amazon-sells-out-of-echo-speakers-in-midst-of-holiday-rush

9 years ago

Raymond Chen explains what the Y2K was like at Microsoft [video]

https://www.onmsft.com/news/semi-official-windows-historian-raymond-chen-explains-what-the-y2k-was-like-at-microsoft

9 years ago

2016's most-edited Wikipedia articles

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/21/death-politics-most-edited-articles/

9 years ago

GCC 6.3 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-12/msg00132.html

9 years ago

What's wrong with 2006 programming? (2010)

http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/what-is-wrong-with-2006-programming.html

9 years ago

Google Cloud Platform Icon Library for Architecture Diagrams

https://cloud.google.com/icons/

9 years ago

Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android

https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/

9 years ago

LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to put the right features in front of right users

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/20/launchdarkly-gets-8-7m-to-get-access-to-the-right-features-in-front-of-right-users/

9 years ago

White House predicts all truck, taxi, and delivery drivers will be wiped out

http://qz.com/868716/the-white-house-predicts-nearly-all-truck-taxi-and-delivery-driver-jobs-will-be-automated/

9 years ago

Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars

http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2016/09/mars-society-talk-confronting.html

9 years ago

Tips and tricks in using Webpack

https://github.com/rstacruz/webpack-tricks

9 years ago

★ 2.3k

Human Cells Eat Nanowires

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/human-cells-eat-nanowires

9 years ago

CHIP-8 in Common Lisp: Graphics

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-graphics/

9 years ago

Show HN: Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines

https://googleblade.com/

9 years ago

EU court says mass data retention illegal

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-court-privacy-idUSKBN14A13I?il=0

9 years ago

The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing

https://blog.parsec.tv/the-loyalty-to-amds-gpu-product-among-amd-cpu-buyers-is-decreasing-9647c70a6da4#.1te2mdi4i

9 years ago

How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities

https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/how-skype-fixes-security-vulnerabilities/

9 years ago

Garbage collection in a large Lisp system (1984)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.125.2438

9 years ago

The Proposal of the Neutrino (1930)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-proposal-of-the-neutrino

9 years ago