top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-18

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

https://gist.github.com/yossorion/4965df74fd6da6cdc280ec57e83a202d

9 years ago

1382 upvotes – 558 comments

Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

https://www.skytorrents.in

9 years ago

1183 upvotes – 346 comments

Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426896

9 years ago

639 upvotes – 368 comments

Rust vs. Go

https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/18/rust-vs-go.html

9 years ago

481 upvotes – 580 comments

U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=0

9 years ago

479 upvotes – 471 comments

PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python

http://pytorch.org/

9 years ago

447 upvotes – 88 comments

Welcoming Fabric to Google

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/01/FabricJoinsGoogle17.html

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 125 comments

Caching at Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2017/1/17/caching-at-reddit/

9 years ago

350 upvotes – 166 comments

My Go Resolutions for 2017

https://research.swtch.com/go2017

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 197 comments

Mozilla launches new brand identity

https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/arrival/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 284 comments

Threaded messaging comes to Slack

https://slackhq.com/threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack-417ffba054bd

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 91 comments

2016 JavaScript Rising Stars

https://risingstars2016.js.org/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 123 comments

Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38664225

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 183 comments

High-Speed Traders Are Taking Over Bitcoin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/high-speed-traders-are-taking-over-bitcoin-as-easy-money-beckons

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 129 comments

A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

http://behere.asia/making-it-in-japan

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 62 comments

13M Pages of Declassified CIA Documents Posted Online

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/13-million-pages-of-declassified-cia-documents-crest-archive-were-just-posted-online

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 45 comments

Playing with 80M Amazon Product Review Ratings Using Apache Spark

http://minimaxir.com/2017/01/amazon-spark/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 34 comments

DeepTraffic is a gamified simulation of typical highway traffic

http://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/deeptrafficjs/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 90 comments

Go vs. Swift [pdf]

https://github.com/jakerockland/go-vs-swift/blob/master/go-vs-swift.pdf

9 years ago

★ 203 TeX Apache-2.0
166 upvotes – 126 comments

RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-01/msg00148.html

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 44 comments

Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 135 comments

Detailed VPN Comparison Chart

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 66 comments

Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap

http://www.deadcoderising.com/2016-01-17-java-8-new-features-in-concurrenthashmap/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Former Apple engineer: Tim Cook made Apple a 'boring operations company'

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/17/tim-cook-made-apple-boring-operations-company--former-engineer.html

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 110 comments

Who Is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

How the Human Brain Decides What Is Important and What’s Not

http://neurosciencenews.com/importance-neuroscience-decisions-5967/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 28 comments

Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/snowden-does-not-deserve-the-threat-he-faces.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Medical Advice Seems to Change So Frequently

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/upshot/how-to-prevent-whiplash-from-ever-changing-medical-advice.html

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 130 comments

Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/opinion/sunday/big-sugars-secret-ally-nutritionists.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=1

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 131 comments

The Three Machines

http://www.feld.com/archives/2017/01/the-three-machines.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/human-knowledge-salt-mine/512552/?single_page=true

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 79 comments

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse

https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 155 comments

Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 116 comments

How to Use Both Your Wits in a Startup

http://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-use-both-your-wits-in-a-startup/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Kur by Deepgram (YC S16) – Deep Learning Made Easy

http://kur.deepgram.com

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Alenka: GPU database engine

https://github.com/antonmks/Alenka

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Cuda
102 upvotes – 53 comments

Amazon AI

https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-ai/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

HSBC CEO Says Bankers Generating 20% of London Revenue May Move

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-17/hsbc-ceo-says-bankers-generating-20-of-london-revenue-may-move

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 192 comments

My Response to “Are we overcomplicating software development?”

https://neilonsoftware.com/2017/01/18/my-response-to-are-we-over-complicating-software-development/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

Emergence

http://emergence.maxcooper.net/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/16/a-silicon-valley-down-payment-could-buy-you-an-entire-house-in-much-of-the-u-s/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 159 comments

DMARC Secured Email Identities but Broke Mailing Lists

https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/dmarc-secured-your-email-identity-but-see-how-it-ruined-mailing-lists/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

Engineering is the bottleneck in deep learning research

http://blog.dennybritz.com/2017/01/17/engineering-is-the-bottleneck-in-deep-learning-research/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Lyra: a platform for deep, meaningful conversations with people you care about

http://www.hellolyra.org

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 107 comments

DangerJS: The open source maintainers best friend

https://mxstbr.blog/2017/01/the-open-source-maintainers-best-friend/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Training in chess: A scientific approach (2005) [pdf]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e2dd/31c7db68667f1485f80d0e5a3ebb65fd960d.pdf

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook accepts slightly mis-typed passwords

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2dGvgvWEAAienm.jpg

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments
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