top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-29

Rust is mostly safety

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/247406.html

9 years ago

487 upvotes – 458 comments

Technical report on DNC hack [pdf]

https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296.pdf

9 years ago

456 upvotes – 450 comments

Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/creative-tim

9 years ago

445 upvotes – 139 comments

Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-users-everything-it-really-knows-about-them

9 years ago

438 upvotes – 267 comments

What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics?

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-physics

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 68 comments

Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 1

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2016/11/06/tutorial-1/

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 16 comments

Chrome browser for businesses

https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/chrome-browser/

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 274 comments

How to Validate Demand for Your Product

https://www.upupgrow.com/blog/2016/12/20/how-to-validate-demand-for-your-product

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 41 comments

Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser

https://github.com/facebooknuclide/atom-in-orbit

9 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript
255 upvotes – 89 comments

The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020

http://fortune.com/2016/03/31/united-states-manufacturing-china/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 223 comments

The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

http://runningwithscissors.com/?p=2318%3Fage-verified%3Db5f8c522d5?age-verified=b5f8c522d5

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 77 comments

Land Lines

https://lines.chromeexperiments.com/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 52 comments

C++17 – better than you might think

http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2016/12/28/c17-why-its-better-than-you-might-think.html

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 203 comments

ZFS Root Filesystem on AWS

https://www.scotte.org/2016/12/ZFS-root-filesystem-on-AWS

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 106 comments

Operational calculus on programming spaces and generalized tensor networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07690

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 50 comments

What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (1999)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php?print=1

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 24 comments

I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 47 comments

How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712044-city-century-how-vienna-produced-ideas-shaped-west

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 92 comments

Edward Snowden’s Escape from Hong Kong [audio]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8416-the_untold_story_of_edward_snowden_s_escape_from_hong_kong

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 76 comments

Visdown – Visualization using Markdown

http://visdown.amitkaps.com/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 15 comments

Global living conditions are getting better

http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/23/14062168/history-global-conditions-charts-life-span-poverty

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 141 comments

My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every weekday

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-read-a-research-paper-every-weekday/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Drop Table Companies Ltd

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

A Sad Announcement

https://www.omniref.com/blog/2016/12/21/a-sad-announcement/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 71 comments

A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-cia-calendar-the-cia-gift-shop-refuses-to-sell-yes-and-heres-the-strange-story-behind-it/2016/12/28/bde03862-c604-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 104 comments

A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 milestone in 2017

https://crystal-lang.org/2016/12/29/crystal-new-year-resolutions-for-2017-1-0.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 78 comments

Rust is Software's Salvation

http://www.redox-os.org/news/rust-is-softwares-salvation-17/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 172 comments

Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/facebooks-face-recognition-tech-goes-on-trial

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 70 comments

Game in-app purchases are warping kids’ understanding of basic economic ideas

http://qz.com/873348/50000-coins-for-1-99-how-mobile-game-in-app-purchases-are-warping-kids-understanding-of-basic-economic-ideas/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 123 comments

BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back ends

https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS

9 years ago

★ 3.1k TypeScript
121 upvotes – 20 comments

Carmakers Are Learning Japan’s Tech Talent Doesn’t Come Cheap

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/japan-s-once-dominant-carmakers-face-big-pay-hikes-to-lure-geeks

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 158 comments

How China Built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-china-foxconn.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears (2015)

http://rameznaam.com/2015/05/12/the-singularity-is-further-than-it-appears/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 133 comments

Franka: A Robot Arm That’s Safe, Low Cost, and Can Replicate Itself

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/franka-a-robot-arm-thats-safe-low-cost-and-can-replicate-itself

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts

https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula

9 years ago

★ 22.1k JavaScript MIT
104 upvotes – 9 comments

Virtual Reality Can Leave You with an Existential Hangover

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/post-vr-sadness/511232?single_page=true

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 97 comments

Hey Zuck We Built Your Office AI

http://blog.algorithmia.com/hey-zuck-we-built-your-facial-recognition-ai/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Techniques for Microsoft SQL database design and optimization

https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/421-microsoft-sql-optimization

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-asian-american-advantage-that-is-actually-an-illusion/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_asianam-8a:homepage/story&utm_term=.15a3d724f940

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 94 comments

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs (1994) [pdf]

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HaskellVsAda-NSWC.pdf

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat

https://github.com/Tencent/mars

9 years ago

★ 17.6k C++
88 upvotes – 25 comments

Amazon files patent for flying warehouse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38458867

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Street-Legal ebikes are underpowered

https://electricbike-blog.com/2016/12/26/no-one-gives-a-rats-ass-about-your-street-legal-ebike-build-something-awesome/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 119 comments

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8J_qdFYwNJ6OS1WSHhzVGxZZzQ/edit

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

2017 Outlook: Pandas, Arrow, Feather, Parquet, Spark, Ibis

http://wesmckinney.com/blog/outlook-for-2017/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/us/politics/russia-election-hacking-sanctions.html?_r=0

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Tabbie, a tab manager for Google Chrome

https://github.com/hharnisc/tabbie

9 years ago

★ 410 JavaScript MIT
73 upvotes – 53 comments

Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpytMl7FRvs

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 75 comments
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