Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2016-12-30

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173

China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38470861

9 years ago

481 upvotes – 173 comments

431

158

Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

https://whoaremyrepresentatives.org/

9 years ago

431 upvotes – 158 comments

420

123

Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

https://bitquabit.com/post/working-remotely-coworking-and-mental-health/

9 years ago

420 upvotes – 123 comments

402

249

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2016/

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 249 comments

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ThinkPad X1 Carbon

http://www3.lenovo.com/ca/en/new-products/ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-5th-Generation/p/22TP2TXX15G

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 526 comments

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Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move

http://bgr.com/2016/12/29/facebook-instagram-acquisition-1-billion-genius/

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 190 comments

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250

US government to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/10/feds-poised-to-withdraw-longstanding-warnings-about-dietary-cholesterol/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 250 comments

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Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284917

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 186 comments

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Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/12/30/14105960/flying-car-future-explained

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 224 comments

227

119

A one-side-project-per-month challenge

https://github.com/1ppm/1ppmLog

★ 419 9 years ago

★ 419

227 upvotes – 119 comments

223

279

Why Clojure? (2010)

http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-clojure.html

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 279 comments

209

The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/30/the-hardware-hacker-bunnie-hu.html

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 40 comments

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426

Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Apple-to-slice-iPhone-production-10

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 426 comments

177

Tips for Reading Code (2014)

http://wiki.c2.com/?TipsForReadingCode

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 69 comments

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125

I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation

https://medium.com/@mrannedev/im-a-bad-developer-that-s-the-only-reasonable-explanation-1db7556f9cb3#.ypq85v9ej

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 125 comments

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103

Ask HN: Switching from developer to project manager. What to keep in mind?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284742

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 103 comments

162

Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs?

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36830

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

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Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/29/news/ceo-resign-employee-suicide-dentsu/index.html

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 151 comments

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120

U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem

http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/30/incarceration-and-crime-rates-fall-in-ta

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 120 comments

137

Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang

http://blog.seraum.com/nectar-a-native-cross-platform-javascript-ecmascript-compiler-inspired-by-crystal-lang-and-nim-lang

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 78 comments

130

Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0

https://github.com/tidwall/tile38/releases/tag/1.7.0

★ 9.6k Go MIT 9 years ago

★ 9.6k Go MIT

130 upvotes – 26 comments

127

Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161230/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

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When city retirement pays better than the job

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-el-monte-pensions

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 146 comments

125

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (2014)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/when-you-fall-in-love-this-is-what-facebook-sees/283865/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

120

Anti Patterns Catalog

http://wiki.c2.com/?AntiPatternsCatalog

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

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Is the Era of Great Famines Over?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/opinion/is-the-era-of-great-famines-over.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 166 comments

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Ways scientists use Slack

http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-use-slack-1.21228

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 100 comments

106

Designing as a Developer

https://blog.benroux.me/designing-as-a-developer/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

105

On the Exponential View

https://medium.com/@azeem/on-the-exponential-view-75cd24525d14#.vfc2b5hmn

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 13 comments

105

Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Unobserved Variables

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005110

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

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105

Critiques of the DHS and FBI’s Grizzly Steppe Report

http://www.robertmlee.org/critiques-of-the-dhsfbis-grizzly-steppe-report/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 105 comments

100

Show HN: Remember – A progressive Todo app

http://github.com/sanchitgn/remember

★ 202 JavaScript 9 years ago

★ 202 JavaScript

100 upvotes – 36 comments

CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lead-cdc-idUSKBN14J160

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

The Golden Era of Hedge Funds Draws to a Close with Clients in Revolt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/hedge-fund-agonistes-not-even-donald-trump-can-ease-the-pain

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

Toronto’s Chinese bottle ladies

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/the-secret-lives-of-torontos-chinese-bottleladies/article33425364/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Caching Antipatterns

https://www.hidefsoftware.co.uk/2016/12/25/the-caching-antipattern/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (1996)

http://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-table-of-contents/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

A Paper Algorithm Notation

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

Portainer, a UI for Docker

https://media-glass.es/portainer-the-ui-for-docker-d067f6335f23#.2gafj9tpt

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Run a More Secure Browser

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/handbook/RunSecureBrowser/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Machine Dreams [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8369-machine_dreams#video&t=704

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Yitang “Tom” Zhang and fame in mathematics

http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/the-twin-prime-hero-rp

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Tinker with a Neural Network Right Here in Your Browser

http://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=tanh&batchSize=10&dataset=circle&regDataset=reg-plane&learningRate=0.03&regularizationRate=0&noise=0&networkShape=4,2&seed=0.44309&showTestData=false&discretize=false&percTrainData=50&x=true&y=true&xTimesY=false&xSquared=false&ySquared=false&cosX=false&sinX=false&cosY=false&sinY=false&collectStats=false&problem=classification&initZero=false&hideText=false

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof