top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-10

Welcome Chris Lattner

https://www.tesla.com/blog/welcome-chris-lattner

9 years ago

879 upvotes – 275 comments

When You Are Depressed, Make Something

https://byrslf.co/when-you-are-depressed-make-something-49467edd1933#.yg26duthw

9 years ago

684 upvotes – 339 comments

Why Many Cities Have No Money

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money

9 years ago

576 upvotes – 414 comments

I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/i-returned-my-2016-macbook-pro-touch-bar

9 years ago

559 upvotes – 466 comments

A Prettier JavaScript Formatter

http://jlongster.com/A-Prettier-Formatter

9 years ago

498 upvotes – 153 comments

Update on the Swift Project Lead

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170109/030063.html

9 years ago

482 upvotes – 148 comments

What Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/style-house-visual-guides-domestic-architectural-designs/

9 years ago

387 upvotes – 108 comments

Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/daniel-gross-of-apple-leaves-to-become-y-combinators-newest-partner/

9 years ago

333 upvotes – 131 comments

6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars

http://cars.mit.edu

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 51 comments

NeverSSL

http://neverssl.com/

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 204 comments

Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control via USB port

https://www.scmagazine.com/debugging-mechanism-in-intel-cpus-allows-seizing-control-via-usb-port/article/630480/?

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 115 comments

The design of Chacha20

http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/chacha20-design

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 70 comments

Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)

http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-06-17

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 109 comments

HTTPS on NYTimes.com

https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/https-on-nytimes-com/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 159 comments

A large slab of ice is breaking off an Antarctic glacier

http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-iceberg-breaking-off-2017-1

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 118 comments

Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name

http://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 194 comments

Go 1.8 Release Candidate 1 is released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/tr2ZKSQ42zE

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 136 comments

Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

https://backchannel.com/aaron-swartzs-theory-on-how-to-save-the-world-b3401bf79d99#.8tdx6ebw8

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 135 comments

Moving persistent data out of Redis

http://githubengineering.com/moving-persistent-data-out-of-redis/

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 75 comments

Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code

https://medium.com/@egraether/why-working-on-chrome-made-me-develop-a-tool-for-reading-source-code-7111ba21a6f0#.2m1e4m8yy

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: An audio only social network

http://currentlyapp.io/

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 171 comments

TINY: VNC for DOS

http://josh.com/tiny/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 64 comments

The “.onion” Special-Use Domain Name (2015)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 67 comments

Death to the Gerrymander

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/death_to_the_gerrymander_paul_smith_might_defeat_unconstitutional_redistricting.html

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 112 comments

If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his searches legal?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/if-a-best-buy-technician-is-a-paid-fbi-informant-are-his-computer-searches-legal/2017/01/09/f56028b4-d442-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 153 comments

Fark NotNewsletter: Google farked us over

http://www.fark.com/comments/blog673/Fark-NotNewsletter-Google-farked-us-over

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 54 comments

Amsterdam’s coffeeshops are closing

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/01/economist-explains-man

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 183 comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (2013)

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 38 comments

Mobile Website Speed Testing Tool

http://testmysite.withgoogle.com

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 63 comments

How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack

http://blog.serverfault.com/2017/01/09/surviving-the-next-dns-attack/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 40 comments

Mac’s share falls to five-year low

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3155088/apple-mac/macs-share-falls-to-five-year-low.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 134 comments

Facebook’s Virtual Reality Foray Derided as ‘Fanciful Story’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/facebook-s-virtual-reality-foray-challenged-as-fanciful-story

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

Google discontinues support for hangouts API

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/01/09/google-quietly-discontinues-support-hangouts-api/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 73 comments

Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fastest in TIOBE

http://news.dartlang.org/2017/01/dart-in-2016-fastest-growing.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 129 comments

Launch HN: Simple Habit (YC W17) – Spotify for Meditation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366964

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%

https://engineering.klarna.com/how-removing-caching-improved-mobile-performance-by-25-52a17cc339a2#.j5r34xnim

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Numbers 0 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9 (2014)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 56 comments

Lambdascript – A new pure functional language built on top of Python

https://github.com/baruchel/lambdascript

9 years ago

★ 280 Python MIT
116 upvotes – 50 comments

Scientists Predict Star Collision Visible to the Naked Eye in 2022

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/509010493/scientists-predict-star-collision-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-2022

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/01/10/continuing-commitment-privacy-windows-10/#T1XtoToOrXLdUWvE.97

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 155 comments

How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/09/how-yahoo-came-up-with-its-new-name-altaba/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Photos of a Sukhoi Su-27 dogfighting with a USAF F-16 around Area 51

https://theaviationist.com/2017/01/06/these-crazy-photos-show-a-russian-su-27-flanker-dogfighting-with-a-u-s-air-force-f-16-inside-area-51/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of Google’s most revolutionary phone

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/10/inside-project-ara-googles-revolutionary-modular-phone/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 108 comments

Backpage Shuts Down Adult Ads in the U.S., Citing Government Pressure

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/10/509127110/backpage-shuts-down-adult-ads-citing-government-pressure

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 188 comments

Public universities have “really lost our focus”

http://hechingerreport.org/public-universities-really-lost-focus/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 77 comments

Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9060.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

Recommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep38580

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/the-outlook-for-bay-area-startup-space-in-2017/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

.NET Garbage Collector Basics and Performance Hints (2003)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973837.aspx

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Call Centers May Know a Surprising Amount About You

http://www.wsj.com/articles/that-anonymous-voice-at-the-call-center-they-may-know-a-lot-about-you-1483698608

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

We Shouldn't Wait for Medium

http://scripting.com/2017/01/09/weShouldntWaitForMedium.html

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

Using Lua coroutines to create an RPG dialogue system

http://lua.space/gamedev/using-lua-coroutines-to-create-rpg

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments
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