top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-23

LiChess: Learn from your mistakes

https://en.lichess.org/blog/WFvLpiQAACMA8e9D/learn-from-your-mistakes

9 years ago

639 upvotes – 113 comments

Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-pro-2016-consumer-reports-2016-12

9 years ago

507 upvotes – 424 comments

Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust

https://rocket.rs

9 years ago

484 upvotes – 114 comments

Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience

http://www.joelambert.co.uk/article/offline-first-a-better-html5-user-experience/

9 years ago

434 upvotes – 144 comments

Things I learnt making a fast website

https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastest-site-in-the-world-18a0e1cdf4a7#.1y8odu3s7

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite

http://wickeditor.com/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 63 comments

Writing web applications using only the Go Standard Library

https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 68 comments

A French Grocery Chain Is Trolling Amazon Go

https://www.fastcocreate.com/3066794/quick-hit/this-french-grocery-chain-is-totally-trolling-amazon-go

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 121 comments

IQ is only a minor factor in success

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-22/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 273 comments

Python 3.6.0 released

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.html

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 185 comments

Hedge Fund Math: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/business/hedge-fund-fees-returns.html?emc=edit_dk_20161223&nl=dealbook&nlid=65508833&ref=dealbook&te=1&_r=0

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 117 comments

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 206 comments

Principles

https://www.principles.com/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 85 comments

A homemade receiver for GPS and GLONASS satellites

http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 48 comments

U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/foreign-travelers-social-media-232930

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 181 comments

Elixir Design Goals (2013)

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2013/08/08/elixir-design-goals/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book

http://hyperallergic.com/176036/the-minimalist-beauty-of-a-renaissance-era-geometry-book/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 17 comments

The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-first-female-doctor-in-britain-spent-56-years-disguised-as-a-man

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 73 comments

Building and Linking Libraries in C

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/howto_C_libraries.html

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Code.hackmit.org – Software for Hackathons

https://code.hackmit.org/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 11 comments

A flight was late because someone named their Wi-Fi hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/22/14063842/samsung-galaxy-note-7-virgin-america-flight-sfo

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database (2015) [pdf]

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 56 comments

Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest test yet

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-violation-lorentz-symmetry-strongest.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

Racket Language – New website design

http://racket-lang.org/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 40 comments

A deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been posting his finds on Twitter

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-deep-sea-fisherman-in-russia-has-been-posting-his-finds-on-twitter-2016-12

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

http://www.clap.chat/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Bitcoin Now Worth More Than Twitter

https://mattermark.com/bitcoin-tests-new-aggregate-value-highs/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 84 comments

Man gets $75 after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/us/tennessee-inmate-wrongly-imprisoned/index.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

Encryption App ‘Signal’ Fights Censorship with a Clever Workaround

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/encryption-app-signal-fights-censorship-clever-workaround/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Finding North America’s lost medieval city

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/theres-a-1000-year-old-lost-city-beneath-the-st-louis-suburbs/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

High-speed Wi-Fi rolls into 100th railway station in India

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/high-speed-wi-fi-rolls-100th-railway-station-india/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

YouTube views down for channels with more than 10M subscribers, analysis says

http://kotaku.com/youtube-views-are-down-across-the-board-analysis-says-1790440740

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 87 comments

Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software

http://newatlas.com/dubai-police-crime-prediction-software/47092/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/08/deep-learning-part-2.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 4 comments

2016 will be one second longer

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/2912.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 86 comments

Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (2001)

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg02150.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

A game developer's story of perseverance

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/17/11035050/owl-cave-chronic-pain-game-development

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 1 comments

The queen does not rule

https://aeon.co/essays/how-ant-societies-point-to-radical-possibilities-for-humans

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Dramatically Reducing Software Vulnerabilities [pdf]

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2016/NIST.IR.8151.pdf

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/https-deployment-growing-leaps-and-bounds-2016-review

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

YubiKey for Windows Hello – Protect your Windows 10 login with your YubiKey

http://yubi.co/yubikeywinhelloapp

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments
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