top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-22

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

9 years ago

883 upvotes – 580 comments

To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/opinion/to-slow-global-warming-we-need-nuclear-power.html

9 years ago

618 upvotes – 639 comments

Why time management is ruining our lives

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives

9 years ago

552 upvotes – 203 comments

Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13235767

9 years ago

414 upvotes – 321 comments

How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/upshot/how-social-isolation-is-killing-us.html

9 years ago

395 upvotes – 228 comments

Announcing Rust 1.14

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/12/22/Rust-1.14.html

9 years ago

351 upvotes – 171 comments

Why the Elixir language has great potential

http://adrian-philipp.com/post/why-elixir-has-great-potential

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 107 comments

Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=theatlantic

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 130 comments

Top Python libraries of 2016

https://tryolabs.com/blog/2016/12/20/top-10-python-libraries-of-2016/

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 40 comments

OpenWrt and LEDE to re-merge

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-December/004786.html

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 27 comments

Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-is-building-an-algorithmic-model-of-its-founders-brain-1482423694

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 99 comments

ClusterHQ is shutting down

https://clusterhq.com/2016/12/22/clusterf-ed/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 224 comments

GitLab 8.15 Released

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 115 comments

Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8

http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/vim-creator-champions-charityware/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 115 comments

An Introduction to Geometric Algebra

https://bitworking.org/news/ga/2d

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 36 comments

My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thanks to you)

http://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 64 comments

Uber lawsuit alleges employees were misled on equity compensation

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/22/uber-lawsuit-alleges-employees-were-misled-on-equity-compensation/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 111 comments

OpenJDK now available for Windows

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/06/27/openjdk-now-available-for-windows/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 96 comments

Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user

http://dawgyg.com/2016/12/21/disclosing-the-primary-email-address-for-each-facebook-user/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 60 comments

Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High

http://www.wsj.com/articles/percentage-of-young-americans-living-with-parents-rises-to-75-year-high-1482316203?mod=trending_now_2

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 274 comments

A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees

http://torontolife.com/city/life/jim-estill-the-man-who-saved-200-syrian-refugees/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 100 comments

Thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 51 comments

The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/architecture-evil-dystopian-megacorps-speculative-fiction/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 51 comments

You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/science/youre-an-adult-your-brain-not-so-much.html?_r=0

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 147 comments

A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie

https://blog.feabhas.com/2016/12/a-convenient-untruth/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 172 comments

The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring

https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 81 comments

Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future

http://www.titus-stahl.de/blog/2016/12/21/encrypted-messengers-why-riot-and-not-signal-is-the-future/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 173 comments

Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12212016b

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 76 comments

A Junior Data Scientist Bookshelf (including Free Versions and HN Discussions)

http://ghyslain.me/bookshelf

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 9 comments

A Message to 2600 Readers and Writers

https://www.2600.com/content/message-2600-readers-and-writers

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 103 comments

Intel Committee Releases Declassified Snowden Report

http://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=743

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 69 comments

The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/What_Language_Is_Best_For_Machine_Learning_And_Data_Science?lang=en

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 103 comments

The State of Linux Security

https://linux-audit.com/the-state-of-linux-security/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 55 comments

The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_antifaq/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 139 comments

Play Netflix on Linux with Firefox

https://linuxconfig.org/play-netflix-on-linux-with-firefox

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 85 comments

Uber stops self-driving pilot in SF after DMV revokes its cars' registrations

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/21/14049064/uber-self-driving-pilot-san-francisco-dmv-revoke

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 80 comments

Cardinality Estimation (2011) [pdf]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/AC11-Cardinality.pdf

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

U.S. Blacklists Alibaba Unit Over Counterfeit Sales

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/business/us-blacklists-alibaba-taobao.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 173 comments

Why Are Medical Ultrasound Systems So Inexpensive?

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/12/why-are-medical-ultrasound-systems-so.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 71 comments

HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL

https://github.com/Microsoft/HoloJS

9 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT
105 upvotes – 23 comments

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.12.0 released

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0120-released.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: RealIdeas.site (submit an idea, get 10 real ones back)

https://realideas.site/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

A movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/12/movie-doesn-t-exist-and-redditors-who-think-it-does

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires can't fix local poverty

http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valleys-prosperity-paradox-explained-2016-12

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 148 comments

The Binoculars of Jah

https://granta.com/the-binoculars-of-jah/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Teleport: Simple command line app tutorial written in Haskell

http://bollu.github.io/teleport/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Time Machine: H.L. Mencken's 1925 Review of 'The Great Gatsby'

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-hl-mencken-20141010-story.html#page=1

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments
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