top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-09

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/

9 years ago

1857 upvotes – 733 comments

Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience

http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/software-developers-should-have.html

9 years ago

577 upvotes – 406 comments

From OS X to Ubuntu

https://nicolas.perriault.net/code/2016/from-osx-to-ubuntu/

9 years ago

544 upvotes – 392 comments

Stanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial (2014)

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/tutorial/

9 years ago

401 upvotes – 50 comments

Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-5897&CIK=1011006&soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 359 comments

Bringing Wide Color to Instagram

https://engineering.instagram.com/bringing-wide-color-to-instagram-5a5481802d7d#.44soiw7he

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 117 comments

From Python to Numpy

http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 48 comments

Just how smart is an octopus?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 312 comments

H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten Rules

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2017/01/06/h-1b-visas-u-s-lawmaker-re-introduces-bill-to-tighten-rules/?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 371 comments

20 years as a Debian maintainer

http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2017/01/20-years-of-being-debian-maintainer.html

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 120 comments

The first web site

http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 57 comments

Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/conference-program/presentation/shuff

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 50 comments

Deep Work: A welcome kick in the butt

https://cpbotha.net/2017/01/09/deep-work-a-welcome-kick-in-the-butt/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 65 comments

F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diesel-emissions-investigation-settlement.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 154 comments

Graph Isomorphism update: quasipolynomial claim restored

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/update.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 35 comments

Go and Dogma

https://research.swtch.com/dogma

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 194 comments

New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

https://bartongeorge.io/2017/01/09/welcome-the-new-ubuntu-based-precision-line-up-mobile-workstations-plus-a-new-all-in-one

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 70 comments

The Swedish Kings of Cyberwar

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/the-swedish-kings-of-cyberwar/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/resources/xla_prerelease

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 16 comments

Upping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/poker-pros-vs-AI.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354368

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 66 comments

Is your internet up to date?

http://en.conn.internet.nl/connection/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 73 comments

Kodak says it’s bringing back Ektachrome film

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/kodak-says-its-bringing-back-ektachrome-film-and-photographers-everywhere-smile/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 205 comments

Add a const here, delete a const there

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/add-a-const-here-delete-a-const-there/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 53 comments

Attachment theory is having a breakout moment

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/yes-its-your-parents-fault.html

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming

https://anchovieshat.github.io/Q8/index.html

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released

http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 63 comments

Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (2009)

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 34 comments

The History of the iPhone on its 10th Anniversary [audio]

http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/01/the-history-of-the-iphone/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

Blockchains for Artificial Intelligence

https://blog.bigchaindb.com/blockchains-for-artificial-intelligence-ec63b0284984

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 60 comments

The Price of Anarchy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_anarchy

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 135 comments

How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications

http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/12/31/bib.bbw130.full

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in No-Limit Poker

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01724

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

Chisel – A fast TCP tunnel over HTTP

https://github.com/jpillora/chisel

9 years ago

★ 15.9k Go MIT
101 upvotes – 38 comments

iPhone at ten: the revolution continues

http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/01/iphone-at-ten-the-revolution-continues.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 187 comments

FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members to Dig Around in Computers

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170106/10163236419/fbi-is-apparently-paying-geek-squad-members-to-dig-around-computers-evidence-criminal-activity.shtml

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Linux) Review

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/01/dell-xps-13-ubuntu-review-2017/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Larry Wildman – Send free, anonymous postcards to horrible bosses

https://www.larrywildman.com/#send

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Bootstrapped US founders, who do you use for health insurance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353755

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 115 comments

RustgreSQL

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXdQUiuUnhycdRvrUmHuzk5PsaGxr54U4t34teQjcjb%3DAQ%40mail.gmail.com

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 90 comments

For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate Cities

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/for-15-years-new-orleans-was-divided-into-three-separate-cities

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government forever

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/connector-in-chief/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments

Measuring execution performance of C++ exceptions vs. error codes

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/01/measuring-execution-performance-of-c.html

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 70 comments

Porous, 3D forms of graphene can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter

http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-strongest-lightest-materials-0106

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Data visualization news

http://dvblogger.com/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Artificial Addition (2007)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/l9/artificial_addition/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Brainfilling Curves: A Fractal Bestiary

http://www.brainfillingcurves.com/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments
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