top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-03

Ticketmaster is a horrible company

https://hjhart.github.io/2017/01/03/ticketmaster-is-a-horrible-company.html

9 years ago

589 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today

http://patentsexpiringtoday.com

9 years ago

546 upvotes – 142 comments

Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist

9 years ago

511 upvotes – 256 comments

Getting Past C

http://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/03/getting-past-c.html

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 486 comments

Tor at the Heart: Firefox

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-heart-firefox

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 71 comments

Apple’s 2016 in review

https://chuqui.com/2017/01/apples-2016-in-review/

9 years ago

396 upvotes – 385 comments

Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X

http://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-mac-os-x/

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 334 comments

The Real Name Fallacy

https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 309 comments

Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot

https://blog.infermedica.com/three-challenges-youre-going-to-face-when-building-a-chatbot/

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 138 comments

Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees

https://medium.com/positiveslope/dont-get-trampled-the-puzzle-for-unicorn-employees-8f00f33c784f

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 91 comments

Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 144 comments

Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/intel-core-i7-7700k-kaby-lake-review/

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 343 comments

HP made a laptop slightly thicker to add 3 hours of battery life

http://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/3/14126382/new-hp-spectre-x360-laptop-2017-announced-price-release-date-ces

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 216 comments

Request for Startups: Water

https://blog.ycombinator.com/request-for-startups-water/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310159

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 493 comments

DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-round-up-2016/?href=

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

CS 294 Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2017

http://rll.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 18 comments

Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)

http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/jm-fortier/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 42 comments

Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (2009)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kindness-emotions-psychology/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 133 comments

Finland launches trial program to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/basic-income-finland-1.3918671

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 229 comments

Writing a Faster Sorting Algorithm

https://probablydance.com/2016/12/27/i-wrote-a-faster-sorting-algorithm/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 33 comments

Class Breaks

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/class_breaks.html

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 55 comments

What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer

https://medium.com/@honestbleeps/what-apple-gives-you-for-100-as-a-safari-extension-developer-and-why-reddit-enhancement-suite-6e2d829c2e52

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 75 comments

Open-Sourcing Our Incident Response Documentation

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/incident-response-documentation/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 8 comments

Odo: Shapeshifting for your data

http://odo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 35 comments

Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices

http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2017/01/02/basic-economy-fares-dont-lower-ticket-prices-increase-ticket-prices/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 417 comments

Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC

https://www.csail.mit.edu/ridesharing_reduces_traffic_300_percent

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 178 comments

Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?

http://boston.conman.org/2016/12/17.1

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 94 comments

An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 45 comments

Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-do-not-appear-to-have-targeted-vermont-utility-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/01/02/70c25956-d12c-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 129 comments

The Isdalen mystery

https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/the-isdalen-mystery-1.13249066

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 25 comments

Use Maps in Lite mode

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3031966

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Classes Considered Harmful [pdf]

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/publications/ClassesHarmful.pdf

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

https://www.getcastor.com/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

Inflammation halts fat-burning

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8780.html

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 128 comments

A new human organ has been classified

http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-a-brand-new-human-organ-has-been-classified

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Sierra PDF Problems Get Worse in 10.12.2

http://tidbits.com/article/16966

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

The ad tech renaissance

http://bokonads.com/the-ad-tech-renaissance/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

http://zazuapp.org/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers

https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-detect-privilege-escalation.html

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations for a book on Distributed Systems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311124

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/30/506433671/the-wrong-eating-habits-can-hurt-your-brain-not-just-your-waistline?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What is the status of VR on Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311378

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Combinatorial Algorithms (1978) [pdf]

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/CombinatorialAlgorithms.pdf

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Music Video Dispenser

https://www.musicvideodispenser.com/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

House Republicans Vote to Strip Independence from Ethics Office

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans-vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Etherplay: Play Skill Games on Ethereum

http://etherplay.io/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 85 comments

How The U.S. Marshals Are Trying To Break My Hunger Strike

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-the-us-marshalls-bureau-of-prisons-are-trying_us_586abd7be4b068764965c3af

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 55 comments

‘Routine’ Jobs Are Disappearing

http://www.wsj.com/articles/routine-jobs-are-disappearing-1483455600?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 193 comments
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