top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-06

Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/

9 years ago

1170 upvotes – 476 comments

A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

9 years ago

489 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13334480

9 years ago

444 upvotes – 833 comments

My Watch Runs GNU/Linux

https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/my-watch-runs-gnu-linux-and-it-is-amazing/

9 years ago

437 upvotes – 234 comments

Let’s Encrypt 2016 in Review

https://letsencrypt.org/2017/01/06/le-2016-in-review.html

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 82 comments

FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/ftc-sues-d-link-over-router-and-camera-security-flaws

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 193 comments

Graphviz in the browser

http://mdaines.github.io/viz.js/

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/technology/apple-tim-cook-pay-cut/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 389 comments

Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-unveils-intel-compute-card-credit-card-sized-compute-platform/

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 167 comments

Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/norway-fm-radio-switch-off-digital-1.3923612

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 277 comments

Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337305

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 210 comments

Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game

https://wz2100.net/

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 135 comments

Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?m=1

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 254 comments

Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)

http://www.braveclojure.com/

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 99 comments

The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic

https://www.upupgrow.com/blog/2017/1/5/the-art-of-pitching-how-i-got-published-in-the-atlantic

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 88 comments

SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf]

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/licenses_permits/media/SpaceX%20LLS%2017-096%20License%20and%20Orders_01_06_2017.pdf

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 49 comments

Symbolic mathematics on Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/710537/31440d3205ea5d83/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 71 comments

Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/06/indiegogo-stuff-and-shares/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

Visiting a site that uses Disqus when not logged in sends URL to Facebook

https://blog.dantup.com/2017/01/visiting-a-site-that-uses-disqus-comments-when-not-logged-in-sends-the-url-to-facebook/

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 76 comments

Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 104 comments

Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2017/01/06/bootstrap-4-alpha-6/

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337024

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 249 comments

Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170105-graph-isomorphism-retraction/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 37 comments

Building a CQRS/ES web application in Elixir using Phoenix

https://10consulting.com/2017/01/04/building-a-cqrs-web-application-in-elixir-using-phoenix/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 76 comments

Research papers in the .NET source

http://www.mattwarren.org/2016/12/12/Research-papers-in-the-.NET-source/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 29 comments

Netflix Infinite Runner

https://flixarcade.netflix.io/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 85 comments

FOSDEM 2017 Schedule

https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 28 comments

Theranos reportedly laying off 41% of its workforce

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/06/theranos-reportedly-laying-off-41-of-its-workforce.html

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 95 comments

Use "App folder" access type instead of "Full Dropbox"

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/348508/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 109 comments

Diesel cars produce more toxic emissions than trucks and buses, EU study says

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188676/diesel-cars-toxic-emissions-nitrogen-oxides-trucks-buses-europe

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 117 comments

Two Bots chatting with each other

https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

Mediagenic (or, the Patent from Hell)

http://www.filfre.net/2017/01/a-time-of-endings-part-3-mediagenic-or-the-patent-from-hell/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 7 comments

Negative Resistance with a Single Atom

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8902.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you think?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338539

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ultrasound-tracking-could-be-used-to-deanonymize-tor-users/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments

How an 89-year-old cold warrior became America’s nuclear conscience

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/william-perry-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-214604

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 78 comments

Open source collaboration across agencies to improve HTTPS deployment

https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/01/06/open-source-collaboration-across-agencies-to-improve-https-deployment/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections [pdf]

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 202 comments

IINA – A modern video player for macOS

https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Scale Out Multi-Tenant Apps Based on Ruby on Rails

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/01/05/easily-scale-out-multi-tenant-apps/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite thin websites (text only or limited images)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 93 comments

Concrete AI tasks for forecasting (2014)

http://aiimpacts.org/concrete-ai-tasks-for-forecasting/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

When Node.js is the wrong tool for the job

https://medium.com/@jongleberry/when-node-js-is-the-wrong-tool-for-the-job-6d3325fac85c#.gwnpqr3qs

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments
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