top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-01

The moving sofa problem

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/

9 years ago

690 upvotes – 64 comments

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-1976

9 years ago

602 upvotes – 135 comments

Top algorithms in interview questions

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4

https://github.com/ue4plugins/StreetMap

9 years ago

★ 2.2k C++ MIT
362 upvotes – 61 comments

How I Write Tests

https://blog.nelhage.com/2016/12/how-i-test/

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 106 comments

Does Google execute JavaScript?

https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/122/does-google-execute-javascript

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 106 comments

The Developer Marketing Guide

https://www.devmarketingguide.com/

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 60 comments

2017 is not just another prime number

http://weijr-note.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-is-not-just-another-prime-number.html

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 59 comments

A Month Without Sugar

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/a-month-without-sugar.html

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 230 comments

New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 149 comments

Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/1fczgjmknplp

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 126 comments

Recreating 3D renderings in real life

http://skrekkogle.com/still-file/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 19 comments

How to Become a ‘Superager’

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-become-a-superager.html

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: How to learn new things better?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13297250

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 90 comments

Shell scripts to improve your writing

http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 55 comments

Prime Number Spiral

http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 43 comments

Top Blender developers of 2016

https://www.blender.org/development/the-top-30-blender-developers-2016/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 35 comments

CakeML – A Verified Implementation of ML

https://cakeml.org/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 37 comments

Daily Sketches in 2016

https://medium.com/@zachlieberman/daily-sketches-2016-28586d8f008e

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 18 comments

Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs

https://gitea.io/en-us/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 93 comments

IR is better than assembly (2013)

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-24-ir-is-better-than-assembly/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Lavabit returning in 19 days

https://lavabit.com/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 137 comments

FLAC 1.3.2

https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 63 comments

How (Not?) to Use Python’s List Comprehensions

http://moderndescartes.com/essays/python_list_comprehensions

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 73 comments

Swiss say goodbye to banking secrecy

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/tax-evasion_swiss-say-goodbye-to-banking-secrecy-/42799134

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 89 comments

Unexpected Risks Found in Editing Genes to Prevent Inherited Disorders

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/01/507244429/unexpected-risks-found-in-editing-genes-to-prevent-inherited-disorders

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 70 comments

Five Year Mission

http://simblob.blogspot.com/2016/12/five-year-mission.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking

https://backchannel.com/be-healthy-or-else-how-corporations-became-obsessed-with-fitness-tracking-b0c019faff8d#.wes4gmn96

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: Automated blind control via an Amazon Echo Dot and Raspberry Pi

https://jwahawis.github.io/automated-blinds

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 113 comments

Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-1000-january-1-2017/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 72 comments

Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/expect-deeper-and-cheaper-machine-learning

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

Why does unsupervised deep learning work?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6621

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments
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