top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-04

Grumpy: Go running Python

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/grumpy-go-running-python.html

9 years ago

1411 upvotes – 451 comments

TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow

http://kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart

9 years ago

631 upvotes – 68 comments

Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players

http://www.nature.com/news/google-reveals-secret-test-of-ai-bot-to-beat-top-go-players-1.21253

9 years ago

495 upvotes – 205 comments

Renewing Medium’s focus

https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be

9 years ago

482 upvotes – 376 comments

Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/tesla-flips-the-switch-on-the-gigafactory

9 years ago

446 upvotes – 153 comments

Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released

https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/01/04/inkscape-version-092-released/

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 204 comments

P vs. NP

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3095

9 years ago

390 upvotes – 71 comments

Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/dec/13/richard-feynman-put-himself-fbis-do-not-call-list/

9 years ago

381 upvotes – 73 comments

Rust at OneSignal

https://onesignal.com/blog/rust-at-onesignal/

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 99 comments

Alexa: Amazon's Operating System

https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 168 comments

Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?

http://cialu.net/blog/switch-from-mac-os-x-to-linux.html

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 393 comments

I’m Joining LinkedIn

http://tomdale.net/2017/01/im-joining-linkedin/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 157 comments

Rust on RTL8710 running FreeRTOS

https://polyfractal.com/post/rustl8710/

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 46 comments

Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

http://nautil.us/blog/how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 136 comments

Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/swedish-six-hour-workday-trial-runs-into-trouble-too-expensive

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 198 comments

Elixir v1.4.0 released

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.4.0

9 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0
229 upvotes – 60 comments

SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim

http://spacevim.org

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 176 comments

Show HN: PDFlower – Reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading

https://pdflower.com

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 59 comments

A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps

https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/new-generation-chromebooks-designed-work-millions-apps/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 220 comments

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13316234

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 214 comments

Apple Removes New York Times Apps from iTunes Store in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/business/media/new-york-times-apps-apple-china.html

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 184 comments

$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi devices (2015)

http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2015/FCC-15-146A1.html

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 120 comments

Notes for the New Year

https://blog.ycombinator.com/notes-for-the-new-year/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-computers-ready-to-leap-out-of-the-lab-in-2017-1.21239

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 115 comments

Headphone inline controls – how they differ on Apple iOS vs. Android/Nokia

http://www.head-fi.org/t/825485/xiaomi-in-ear-headphones-pro-hd-2-1-hybrid/210#post_13086213

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 77 comments

First China-U.K. Freight Train Departs as Xi Seeks to Lift Trade

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/china-starts-freight-train-to-london-as-xi-promotes-trade-ties

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 131 comments

Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603204/dropbox-could-have-one-of-2017s-most-interesting-ipos/?utm_campaign=internal&utm_medium=readnext&utm_source=item_2

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 153 comments

Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers (2015)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/big-ipo-tiny-payout-for-many-startup-workers

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 134 comments

Dear Obama, from Infosec

http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/dear-obama-from-infosec.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 85 comments

The Indian government is set to endorse Universal Basic Income

http://www.businessinsider.in/the-indian-government-is-about-to-endorse-giving-all-its-citizens-free-money/articleshow/56317597.cms

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 176 comments

An ex-cop's remorse

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/an-ex-cops-remorse

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 99 comments

Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment

https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

A guide dog that spies on people who ignore its owner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-38027203

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

GitHub Report Card

http://githubreportcard.com/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 68 comments

LeoFS: a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store

https://github.com/leo-project/leofs

9 years ago

★ 1.5k Erlang Apache-2.0
119 upvotes – 41 comments

SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs

9 years ago

★ 20 Go Apache-2.0
119 upvotes – 50 comments

Minstrel ZX80 Clone

http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2016/12/minstrel-zx80-clone.html

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

Lock-Free Bugs

https://research.swtch.com/lockfree

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 22 comments

Paris Eyes Luring 20K Bankers from London Amid Brexit Rupture

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/paris-eyes-luring-20-000-bankers-from-london-amid-brexit-rupture?cmpid=BBD010317_BIZ

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 129 comments

Someone Is Destroying Online Go, and Nobody Knows Who It Is

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/01/someone-is-destroying-online-go-and-nobody-knows-who-it-is/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

The Vertical Farm

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-vertical-farm

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Librsvg now requires Rust

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-January/msg00001.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

The Art of the Motorcade

https://www.1843magazine.com/dispatches/the-daily/the-art-of-the-escort

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Unsecured MongoDBs taken hostage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13317045

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-03/george-lucas-can-t-give-his-1-5-billion-museum-away

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Are there any solid arguments against SPAs in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315444

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 144 comments

Deploying TLS 1.3: the great, the good and the bad [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8348-deploying_tls_1_3_the_great_the_good_and_the_bad

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments
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