top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-11

Integrating GTA V into Universe

https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/

9 years ago

805 upvotes – 165 comments

The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/812265182646927361

9 years ago

667 upvotes – 275 comments

Announcing Tokio 0.1

https://tokio.rs/blog/tokio-0-1/

9 years ago

525 upvotes – 238 comments

Open offices are bad for us

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170105-open-offices-are-damaging-our-memories

9 years ago

464 upvotes – 358 comments

Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborhoods-make-the-best-investment

9 years ago

430 upvotes – 169 comments

Paper Centrifuge

http://gizmodo.com/this-human-powered-paper-centrifuge-is-pure-genius-1790996940

9 years ago

412 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

https://founderkit.com

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 59 comments

Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/Htujoyq-pO8/uRBcS2TmBQAJ

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 44 comments

Eta – A powerful language for building scalable systems on the JVM

http://eta-lang.org/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 161 comments

The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults

https://snyk.io/blog/mongodb-hack-and-secure-defaults/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 214 comments

Bootstrap 4's mobile-first flexbox grid system, now used by default

https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/layout/grid/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 146 comments

Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/01/11/announcing-remacs-porting-emacs-to-rust/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 89 comments

How We Found All of Optimizely's Clients

http://nerdydatablog.com/2016/12/04/how-we-found-all-of-optimizleys-clients/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 45 comments

Top Developer Tools of 2016

https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2016

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 66 comments

America’s Fastest-Growing Loan Category Has Eerie Echoes of Subprime Crisis

http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-fastest-growing-loan-category-has-eerie-echoes-of-subprime-crisis-1484060984

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 183 comments

Master these five concepts to master React

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-understand-react-a1dbd5d114a3

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 49 comments

Bitcoin slides as China's central bank launches checks on exchanges

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bitcoin-idUSKBN14V15Q

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 185 comments

Is Semantic Versioning an Anti-Pattern?

https://surfingthe.cloud/semantic-versioning-anti-pattern/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 212 comments

Cloudflare’s Transparency Report for Second Half 2016 and a Disclosure for 2013

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-transparency-report-for-second-half-2016-and-an-additional-disclosure-for-2013-2/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/well/family/the-japanese-art-of-grieving-a-miscarriage.html

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 68 comments

Not your grandad’s .NET: Pipes, Part 1

https://cetus.io/tim/Part-1-Not-your-grandads-dotnet/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 15 comments

Silicon Valley Needs Startup Drano

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-11/silicon-valley-startup-pipeline-needs-shot-of-drano

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 103 comments

Glance, a visualizer for Haskell code

https://github.com/rgleichman/glance

9 years ago

★ 734 Haskell Apache-2.0
128 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: The Bus Stop Bus

https://www.stavros.io/posts/bus-stop-bus/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 22 comments

No, Palantir. Your internships are not worth 5 months, 8 interviews,...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/5ncqti/no_palantir_your_internships_are_not_worth_5/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/salesforces-marc-benioff-joins-valley-notables-backing-gazas-first-ever-coding-academy/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 137 comments

Why I’m staying at 18F

https://medium.com/@noahkunin/why-im-staying-at-18f-9c9bc77a53fc

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Two's complement – You beauty

http://everyogi.in/c/twos_complement/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

New Jersey Open Data Initiative

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/S1000/727_I1.HTM

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse

https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Types of Engineers

http://omar.io/2017/01/10/the-types-of-engineers.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 78 comments

Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010)

http://www.bbc.com/news/10415877

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

Office Hours with Sam Altman [video]

http://blog.ycombinator.com/office-hours-with-sam-altman/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Pplapi: A virtual database of the entire human population

http://pplapi.com/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

A deep dive into ClojureScript reagent

http://timothypratley.blogspot.com/2017/01/reagent-deep-dive-part-1.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 19 comments

The Rust module system is too confusing

https://withoutboats.github.io/blog/rust/2017/01/04/the-rust-module-system-is-too-confusing.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 95 comments

Introducing: The Facebook Journalism Project

https://media.fb.com/2017/01/11/facebook-journalism-project/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 116 comments

California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/24/california-dui-caffeine-lawsuit-solano-county

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 100 comments

I Didn't Get Hired to Google

https://googleyasheck.com/i-didnt-get-hired-heres-why/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 97 comments

Hitless TLS Certificate Rotation in Go

https://diogomonica.com/2017/01/11/hitless-tls-certificate-rotation-in-go/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Guetzli JPEG encoder

https://github.com/google/guetzli

9 years ago

★ 12.9k C++ Apache-2.0
81 upvotes – 19 comments

Chomsky, Wolfe and me

https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-is-not-everything-that-noam-chomsky-said-it-is

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Elite Dangerous Ship Assistant Powered by Alexa [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScE4ky6_U5k

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-confirm-or-deny.html

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: How often is hardware at the big tech companies refreshed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13373051

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

Librarians in Florida went rogue to save 2,300 books from an algorithm

https://qz.com/877961/librarians-in-florida-went-rogue-to-save-2361-books-from-an-algorithm/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments
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