top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-02

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301832

9 years ago

612 upvotes – 930 comments

Long-term stress erodes memory

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/1327.html

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 155 comments

Why recursive data structures?

http://raganwald.com/2016/12/27/recursive-data-structures.html

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 121 comments

Why isn't there a Google for the law?

http://www.openlawlib.org/blog/why-isnt-there-a-google-for-the-law/

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 214 comments

Three.js editor

https://threejs.org/editor/

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13300023

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 192 comments

Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development

https://karussell.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/lenovo-thinkpad-t460-a-good-linux-laptop-for-development/

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 375 comments

SpaceX concludes anomaly investigation, sets return to flight target date

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates/?

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 131 comments

Learning to Learn in TensorFlow

https://github.com/deepmind/learning-to-learn

9 years ago

★ 4k Python Apache-2.0
266 upvotes – 18 comments

Basic Category Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09375v1

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 85 comments

Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro

http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/12/31/cheap-and-painless-egpu-thrills-on-a-2013-macbook-pro/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 107 comments

Why HTTPS for Everything?

https://https.cio.gov/everything/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 223 comments

Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-traders-in-investment-banks-feel-their-jobs-are-immune-from-AI-automation-and-deep-learning

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 220 comments

New Year’s Resolutions for Introverts

http://www.quietrev.com/12-new-years-resolutions-for-introverts/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 74 comments

Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 125 comments

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/living-in-switzerland-ruined-me-for-america-and-its-lousy-work-culture-987981365

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 203 comments

Oblique programming strategies

https://traviscj.com/blog/oblique_programming_strategies.html

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: If you could live and work somewhere, where would it be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298734

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 382 comments

Show HN: Mastodon, a federated microblogging network

https://mastodon.social

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298947

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 76 comments

$2T in Proceeds of Corruption Removed from China and Taken to US, AUS, CAN, NL

http://www.antimoneylaunderinglaw.com/2017/01/qa-on-the-2-trillion-in-proceeds-of-corruption-removed-from-china-and-taken-to-us-australia-canada-and-netherlands.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 164 comments

NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/new-york-second-avenue-subway-phase-2

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301834

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 258 comments

OpenPGP really works

https://www.foo.be/2016/12/OpenPGP-really-works

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 68 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/01/02/dolphin-progress-report-december-2016/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301833

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 188 comments

TiDB – A distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol

https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

9 years ago

★ 40k Go Apache-2.0
130 upvotes – 32 comments

COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35039465

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 143 comments

Leap second 2017 status

https://community.ntppool.org/t/leap-second-2017-status/59

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 64 comments

Anatomy of a Hoax

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Anatomy-of-a-Hoax/238728?key=bB4GOexLsAk2KfnFOkgPCGZJodsq8kA9po7j3SWdw46rznQiP0fbjiAll6EEXwldVmZKeFJMcVFVNGduaGJGZTllUVZseUhJLWRCaDJwekdXNlZuZm5KdjNEUQ

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

How I converted my React app to VanillaJS

https://hackernoon.com/how-i-converted-my-react-app-to-vanillajs-and-whether-or-not-it-was-a-terrible-idea-4b14b1b2faff#.xg39346tl

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 29 comments

Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1000 Cars

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-31/tesla-rolling-out-autopilot-software-updates-to-1-000-cars

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 114 comments

Derek Parfit has died

http://dailynous.com/2017/01/02/derek-parfit-1942-2017/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Summary of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2016

http://blog.evjang.com/2017/01/nips2016.html

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage

https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 91 comments

The Pentagon’s ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’

https://warisboring.com/we-love-the-pentagons-encyclopedia-of-ethical-failure-21f2a08e38e0

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

Organ donation becomes opt-out in France

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/02/france-organ-donation-law

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 123 comments

Everyday things on the web the EU Commission wants to make illegal

https://juliareda.eu/2016/12/10-illegal-things/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

U.S. Path on Legal Marijuana Forces Rethink in Mexico

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-path-on-legal-marijuana-forces-rethink-in-mexico-1482834602#livefyre-comment

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

Oryol: A small, portable and extensible C++ 3D coding framework

https://github.com/floooh/oryol

9 years ago

★ 2k C++ MIT
83 upvotes – 27 comments

Former Apple employees try a different management approach at Pearl Automation

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/technology/pearl-automation-apple-alumni.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 80 comments
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