top 50% 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

Bringing GitLab Pages to the Community Edition

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/24/were-bringing-gitlab-pages-to-community-edition/?

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/23/star-citizen-and-squadron-42-are-using-amazons-lumberyard-game-engine/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 117 comments

In Canada 50Mbps internet now considered a basic service

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-internet-essential-service-1.3906664

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

A fork in the road

https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Tor at the Heart: OnionShare

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-heart-onionshare

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/1/211100-pure-randomness-extracted-from-two-poor-sources/fulltext

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

Usenet Computer YArchive

http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html?

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Vasili Arkhipov – Soviet Navy Officer Who Prevented Nuclear Strike in 1962

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

Principles of Programming Languages (2011)

http://feederio.com/book/34/principles-of-programming-languages

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 5 comments

Read “The Tao of tmux” prerelease for free online

https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem

http://abstractions.nautil.us/article/71/quantum-gravitys-time-problem

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

UbuWeb, the 20-year-old website that collects the forgotten and the unfamiliar

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/12/ubuweb_the_20_year_old_website_that_collects_the_forgotten_and_the_unfamiliar.html

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: What are some good podcasts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252162

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Set Operations in the Unix Shell (2008)

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/set-operations-in-unix-shell/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Gun database – 100k ops/sec in IE6 on 2GB Atom CPU

https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2GB-Atom-CPU

9 years ago

★ 19k JavaScript
71 upvotes – 48 comments

The end of CyanogenMod

https://lwn.net/Articles/710136/rss

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Why I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro

https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-bought-a-2015-macbook-pro-fadf27ab4b

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 72 comments

Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool

https://ericmccorkleblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/cohabiting-freebsd-and-gentoo-linux-on-a-common-zfs-volume/

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

EmDrive: China claims success with this 'reactionless' engine for space travel

http://www.popsci.com/emdrive-engine-space-travel-china-success

9 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

All Hollowed Out the lonely poverty of America’s white working class

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/?single_page=true

9 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments
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