top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-12-24

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)

https://www.bottomupcs.com

9 years ago

516 upvotes – 156 comments

8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year

https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours/

9 years ago

344 upvotes – 66 comments

Deep Learning Enables You to Hide Screen When Your Boss Is Approaching

http://ahogrammer.com/2016/11/15/deep-learning-enables-you-to-hide-screen-when-your-boss-is-approaching/

9 years ago

316 upvotes – 103 comments

Cyanogen services shutting down

https://cyngn.com/blog/cyanogen-services-shutting-down

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 73 comments

“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161215-why-children-of-men-has-never-been-as-shocking-as-it-is-now

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 210 comments

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old

http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249761

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 158 comments

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1997)

http://www.dspguide.com/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 63 comments

Getting Started with Tokio

https://lukesteensen.com/2016/12/getting-started-with-tokio/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 21 comments

Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)

https://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/ntp-server-costing-500year

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 109 comments

Tiny C Compiler

http://bellard.org/tcc/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 27 comments

2D Terrain generation using midpoint displacement

https://bitesofcode.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/landscape-generation-using-midpoint-displacement/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 19 comments

Information Geometry

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 11 comments

Solar power is now the cheapest form of energy in almost 60 countries

http://www.sciencealert.com/solar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-in-the-world

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 70 comments

Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in Their Teaching? (2003)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281223989_Do_teachers_need_to_incorporate_the_history_of_mathematics_in_their_teaching

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 114 comments

Autovpn – Script to Create an OpenVPN Endpoint on AWS

https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn

9 years ago

★ 2k Shell MIT
139 upvotes – 62 comments

Runners’ brains may be more connected, research shows

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8177.html

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 97 comments

I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 83 comments

World War Three, by Mistake

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/world-war-three-by-mistake

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 64 comments

QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs (2000) [pdf]

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/john-hughes/quick.pdf

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments
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