top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-01-16

A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France

http://visa.lafrenchtech.com/

9 years ago

625 upvotes – 712 comments

Stealing passwords from McDonald's users

https://finnwea.com/blog/stealing-passwords-from-mcdonalds-users

9 years ago

544 upvotes – 164 comments

The lost letters of the English alphabet

https://omgfacts.com/we-used-to-have-6-more-letters-in-our-alphabet-a7e1a165853d#.cevdf6hzw

9 years ago

526 upvotes – 195 comments

Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

http://astronaut.io/

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 136 comments

Gene Cernan has died

https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan

9 years ago

409 upvotes – 172 comments

Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?

https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2017-January/031903.html

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 165 comments

Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/16/google_reveals_its_servers_all_contain_custom_security_silicon/

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 125 comments

Keras will be added to core TensorFlow at Google

http://www.fast.ai/2017/01/03/keras/?href=

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 42 comments

China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 241 comments

Exposing Digital Photography (2015)

http://digitalphotography.exposed/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 40 comments

80,000 Hours career plan worksheet

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MBpwNLl3AgsKi4Yh4PZ2X30PYy4gV9xK2xgqXKevaVQ/edit

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 63 comments

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 out now

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/compute-module-3/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 100 comments

Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/move-coders-physicists-will-soon-rule-silicon-valley/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 173 comments

Modern Tech inside an Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy

http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-surprisingly-modern-tech-inside-an-amish-horse-drawn-buggy/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 107 comments

The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed

http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/13/the-first-humans-arrived-in-north-america-much-earlier-than-thought/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 71 comments

WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

https://github.com/jlantunez/webslides/

9 years ago

★ 6.3kJavaScriptMIT
188 upvotes – 65 comments

How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super-mario-64-and-portal-running-on-an-snes/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps

https://hackernoon.com/we-reverse-engineered-16k-apps-heres-what-we-found-51bdf3b456bb

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

Re-Frame: a Reagent Framework for Writing SPAs, in ClojureScript

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

9 years ago

★ 5.5kClojureMIT
146 upvotes – 30 comments

SrsLTE: Open Source 3GPP LTE Library

https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE

9 years ago

★ 3.9kC++AGPL-3.0
146 upvotes – 15 comments
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