top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-27

Carrie Fisher has died

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/27/14074922/carrie-fisher-star-wars-princess-leia-obituary

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 178 comments

Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide

http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL12/CoverStorySidebar2.html

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 132 comments

No tipping means better business

http://tastefulventures.com/death-to-tipping

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 526 comments

33rd Chaos Communication Congress Livestreams

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/33c3

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 41 comments

WebRTC: the future of web games

https://getkey.eu/blog/5862b0cf/webrtc:-the-future-of-web-games

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 163 comments

Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/27/amazon-echo-audio-data-murder-case/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 221 comments

Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (2006)

http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~ross/papers/FingerTree.html

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 75 comments

Top-down learning path: Machine Learning for Software Engineers

https://github.com/ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-engineers/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 28.7k CC-BY-SA-4.0
250 upvotes – 29 comments

The best board games of 2016

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/game-on-the-best-board-games-of-2016/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 80 comments

About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/air-cushions/511487/?single_page=true

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 230 comments

Darktable 2.2.0 released

http://www.darktable.org/2016/12/darktable-2-2-0-released/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 82 comments

Rust vs C Pitfalls

http://www.garin.io/rust-vs-c-pitfalls

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 365 comments

The Resurgence of C Programming

https://www.oreilly.com/learning/the-resurgence-of-c-programming

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 315 comments

Uber Freight

https://freight.uber.com/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 145 comments

Cheetahs heading towards extinction as population crashes

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38415906

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13266386

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 306 comments

Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity

https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.x7y51rovg

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 82 comments

Haskus – A Haskell Framework for Systems Programming

https://github.com/haskus/haskus-system

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 15 comments

What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (2007)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

https://github.com/hdjirdeh/angular2-hn

9 years ago

★ 1.2k TypeScript MIT
134 upvotes – 43 comments

Bach's Holy Dread

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/bachs-holy-dread

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app Signal as it continues cyber crackdown

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/26/1431709/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 147 comments

Emacs Bytecode Internals (2014)

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/01/04/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

The threat of technological unemployment

http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/26/the-threat-of-technological-unemployment/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 215 comments

Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/RYBfQ9rTjEH

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

Security Risks of TSA PreCheck

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/security_risks_12.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 128 comments

Open Letter to a Car-Addicted City (2014)

http://www.planetizen.com/node/72068/open-letter-car-addicted-city

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 140 comments

Understanding Clojure's PersistentVector implementation (2009)

http://blog.higher-order.net/2009/02/01/understanding-clojures-persistentvector-implementation.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 1 comments

Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)

https://plus.google.com/+lizthegrey/posts/MLAJFVyEb2f

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Should I learn Bootstrap 3 or 4 at this moment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260887

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 108 comments

A Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/mysterious-virus-cause-obesity/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 87 comments

Writing Software is Hard

https://m.signalvnoise.com/writing-software-is-hard-388d5e982ad9

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

SEL4: Mathematically Verified Software Kernels (2014) [pdf]

http://sel4.systems/Info/Docs/GD-NICTA-whitepaper.pdf

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: 32 and lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13262042

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 46 comments

Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38446309

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Secure your MongoDB, Redis, etc

https://medium.com/@shahinism/for-gods-sake-secure-your-mongo-redis-etc-4f310cf1bed2#.m01e3zylf

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Problems with CSVs

https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-CSVs

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 108 comments

Tesla's new radar tech predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later

https://electrek.co/2016/12/27/tesla-autopilot-radar-technology-predict-accident-dashcam/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops

https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-is-about-to-fix-windows-laptops-biggest-frustration-26468799/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 52 comments

Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/dining/restaurants-no-tipping-service.html

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 104 comments

Orbital Determination for Proxima Centauri

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36843

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: What if we legalize cybercrime?

https://bqp.io/should-we-legalize-cybercrime.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Things I hate about Git (2012)

https://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13262016

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 87 comments

A self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8634.html

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/sports/olympics/russia-doping.html

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

A Kaggler’s Guide to Model Stacking in Practice

http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/12/27/a-kagglers-guide-to-model-stacking-in-practice/

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Is personal GitHub information public domain?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264237

9 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/why-skee-ball-doesnt-change/509117/?single_page=true

9 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments
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