top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-31

Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/12/29/careful-with-str-format/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 150 comments

The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages

http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 49 comments

Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 262 comments

How to ask good questions

https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 25 comments

PS4 hack: Fail0verflow demonstrate Linux and Steam running on Firmware 4.05

http://wololo.net/2016/12/28/ps4-hack-fail0verflow-demonstrate-linux-steam-running-firmware-4-05-wont-release-exploit/

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 129 comments

EveryPolitician: Open dataset on politicians

http://everypolitician.org/

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 49 comments

I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

http://anildash.com/2016/12/im-at-fog-creek-and-were-introducing-gomix.html

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 212 comments

Apt: please make the moo reproducible

https://bugs.debian.org/848721

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 59 comments

Deep Learning 2016: The Year in Review

http://www.deeplearningweekly.com/blog/deep-learning-2016-the-year-in-review

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 54 comments

X86 Assembly Guide

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 16 comments

In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news

https://ma.ttias.be/stop-watching-news/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 178 comments

The Middle Class Can't Afford to Live in Cities Anymore

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/year-housing-middle-class-cant-afford-live-cities-anymore/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 350 comments

French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/31/french-workers-win-legal-right-to-avoid-checking-work-email-out-of-hours

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 137 comments

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Becoming a Secret Travel Agent [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Thinking of moving to Europe from USA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290818

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 226 comments

Amazon peer-to-peer selling

https://www.amazon.in/p2p

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

In 2017, learn every language

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/in-2017-learn-every-language-59b11f68eee#.oys0e7tqo

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 50 comments

Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 6 comments

The red Solo Cup is a marvel of modern engineering

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/30/2-reasons-why-the-red-solo-cup-is-a-marvel-of-modern-engineering/?utm_term=.a9c4604f532a

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity utility, officials say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 117 comments

China Turns to $503B Rail Expansion to Boost Growth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/china-to-have-30-000-kilometer-high-speed-rail-network-by-2020

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 178 comments

BigDL: Distributed Deep Learning on Apache Spark

https://github.com/intel-analytics/BigDL

9 years ago

★ 8.7k Python Apache-2.0
112 upvotes – 37 comments

33C3 talk on dissecting cellular modems

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20161230-33c3-presentation/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 15 comments

When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/when-finnish-teachers-work-in-americas-public-schools/508685/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Interactive Map: The Flow of International Trade

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-mapping-flow-international-trade/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Team behind Mac image editor Pixelmator plays David to Adobe's Goliath (2015)

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/09/the-team-behind-mac-photo-editor-pixelmator-plays-david-to-adobes-goliath

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

High-quality ordered math videos from ground up

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

Mini x86 – An x86 documentation, decompiler and emulator in pure JS

https://github.com/xem/minix86

9 years ago

★ 309 HTML
84 upvotes – 15 comments

Angry Programmers (2013)

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/47182940161/angry-programmers

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

What a Sensory Isolation Tank Taught Me About My Brain

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/opinion/sunday/whos-in-charge-the-body-or-the-brain.html

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

To Make the World Better, Think Small

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/to-make-the-world-better-think-small.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Remembering Roger Faulkner, Unix Champion

http://thenewstack.io/remembering-roger-faulkner/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

The IT security culture, hackers vs. industry consortia

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20161206-it_security_culture_telecoms/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/exploit-iphone-message-single-text,33280.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: The habit adopted in 2016 that had the greatest impact on your health?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13289601

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Was Completely False

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

Questions about Superoptimization

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/30.html?

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Whew, what a year

https://krita.org/en/item/whew-what-a-year/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

So far, equity crowdfunding hasn't matched the hype

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/you-too-can-invest-in-a-startup-likely-to-go-bust

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Cargo Cult Science (1974)

http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_science.php

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99

https://postcardbot.co/#hn2

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

A critique of Accelerate (XLR8) by John Kotter

https://blog.coderbyheart.com/why-i-threw-up-in-my-mouth-when-reading-accelerate-xlr8-by-john-kotter

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet (2014)

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Memcache internals (2011)

https://www.adayinthelifeof.nl/2011/02/06/memcache-internals/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: RegEx Face Off – Beat your friends with regular expressions

https://www.regexfaceoff.com/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Museum of HP Clocks

http://www.leapsecond.com/hpclocks/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/did-russia-tamper-with-the-2016-election-bitter-debate-likely-to-rage-on/?amp=1

9 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments
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