top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-01-15

Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

9 years ago

★ 47.6k Python MIT
937 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406638

9 years ago

670 upvotes – 186 comments

Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

https://youexec.com/dev/2017/1/14/google-facebook-ads-traffic-is-useless

9 years ago

540 upvotes – 370 comments

If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive

http://www.jacksimpson.co/finishing-being-productive-busy/

9 years ago

426 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 75 comments

And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”

https://twitter.com/Codealike/status/819990490774904833

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 56 comments

Dovecot audit complete

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source/Completed#dovecot

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 80 comments

Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals

http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-research-can-t-be-published-in-top-journals-1.21299

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 96 comments

Coinbase and the IRS

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/coinbase-and-the-irs-c4e2e386e0cf#.238vo9q3v

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 202 comments

Is this plane landing or departing?

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34586/is-this-plane-landing-or-departing

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 80 comments

Noise Protocol Framework

https://noiseprotocol.org/

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 58 comments

Bus Drivers Working in Silicon Valley Struggle to Afford Rent

http://abcnews.go.com/US/bus-drivers-working-alongside-silicon-valley-millionaires-struggle/story?id=44707434

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 225 comments

Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (2014)

https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bdxl/

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 71 comments

Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/game-theory-maps-the-future-of-deep-learning-21e193b0e33a#.7v4y09kf4

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 67 comments

Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30326728/?ref=producthunt

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 289 comments

What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free? (2015)

http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/08/what-happens-to-oo-when-processors-are.html

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13404912

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 100 comments

Ringling Bros. circus to close after 146 years

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/national/apnewsbreak-ringling-bros-circus-close-after-146-years/xvF7F5yxPt6yICFGIGcXFK/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 189 comments

Debian 8.7 released

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170114

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 43 comments

Rust by Example

http://rustbyexample.com/index.html

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 62 comments
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