top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-20

Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

9 years ago

655 upvotes – 75 comments

Lavabit Reloaded

https://lavabit.com/?reloaded

9 years ago

626 upvotes – 228 comments

Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot

https://neocities.org/

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 99 comments

Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 215 comments

The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 69 comments

How to Get into Natural Language Processing

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-get-into-natural-language-processing/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 75 comments

Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/uber-hires-former-google-search-chief-amit-singhal-as-svp-of-engineering/

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 192 comments

Microsoft Azure in Plain English

https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 46 comments

Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp backdoor story

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/security-researchers-call-for-guardian-to-retract-false-whatsapp-backdoor-story/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 182 comments

How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-19/how-deutsche-bank-made-367-million-disappear

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 49 comments

Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

9 years ago

★ 781
225 upvotes – 153 comments

EFF's 100-Day Plan

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/our-100-day-plan

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 20 comments

Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector

https://webkit.org/blog/7122/introducing-riptide-webkits-retreating-wavefront-concurrent-garbage-collector/

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 43 comments

Ultimate Linux on the Desktop

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/ultimate-linux-on-the-desktop/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 157 comments

How quickly can you remove spaces from a string?

http://lemire.me/blog/2017/01/20/how-quickly-can-you-remove-spaces-from-a-string/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 108 comments

Most used words in programming languages

https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=py

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 182 comments

GitHub's post-CSP journey

https://githubengineering.com/githubs-post-csp-journey/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 56 comments

The world needs a better spreadsheet

http://blog.voyager.vc/the-world-needs-a-better-spreadsheet/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 92 comments

.NET Core Image Processing

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/01/19/net-core-image-processing/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 67 comments

Maintainers Don't Scale

http://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/01/maintainers-dont-scale.html

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 119 comments

Computer Architecture Essentials [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOa0WpMwzWk

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 4 comments

What’s New in Docker 1.13?

https://blog.docker.com/2017/01/whats-new-in-docker-1-13/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442738

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 139 comments

The large crack in the Antarctic ice shelf has grown 6 miles

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/19/enormous-antarctic-ice-shelf-rift-grows-by-another-6-miles/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ee-antarctic-840pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b72cb187bc53

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 140 comments

Why Introverts Are Better at Sales Than Extroverts

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/first-90-days-the-surprising-reason-introverts-are-better-at-sales.html

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 78 comments

Why Small Businesses Aren’t Spending More on Tech

https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/blog/comptia-blog/2017/01/19/how-to-get-small-businesses-more-excited-about-new-tech

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: Ultrabook for programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443253

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 162 comments

GitHub for Lawyers (2013)

https://jduclos.com/notes/github-for-lawyers

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Recommended guides for learning filesystems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445063

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 32 comments

Kristen Stewart co-authors AI paper

http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/1/20/14334242/kristen-stewart-machine-learning-paper-ai

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

VESA HOTAS Mounts for IKEA Markus Chair

http://imgur.com/a/8Uybw

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp

http://joxa.org/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Peter Thiel Fears Star Trek

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-peter-thiel-fears-star-trek?intcid=mod-latest

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 161 comments

ZeroVM: Virtualization based on Chrome's NaCl

http://www.zerovm.org/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-references-to-climate-change-have-been-deleted-from-the-white-house-website

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

FCC to be led by Ajit Pai, staunch opponent of consumer protection rules

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/fcc-to-be-led-by-ajit-pai-staunch-opponent-of-consumer-protection-rules/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 74 comments

The New Gold Rush? Wall Street Wants Your Data

http://mattturck.com/2017/01/17/the-new-gold-rush-wall-street-wants-your-data/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

Uber to pay $20M to settle U.S. claims it misled drivers

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-ftc-idUSKBN15334C

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 57 comments

Supercharge your Sublime Text 3 to increase your productivity

https://hackernoon.com/super-charge-your-sublime-text-3-to-increase-your-productivity-5d02c2c1b356#.jl2arxtch

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 66 comments

Distributed SQL database (TiDB) source code explained

https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/01/06/about-the-tidb-source-code/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Timeline: Organisms that have had their genomes sequenced

http://www.yourgenome.org/facts/timeline-organisms-that-have-had-their-genomes-sequenced

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Channels in Common Lisp

http://vicsydev.blogspot.com/2017/01/channels-in-common-lisp.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

9 years ago

★ 37.9kRuby
92 upvotes – 17 comments

Graphene’s sleeping superconductivity awakens

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graphenes-sleeping-superconductivity-awakens

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: A software solution to ultrasound blood flow monitoring

http://bigwww.epfl.ch/algorithms/blood-flow-monitoring/#outline

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

This Industry is Fucked (2015)

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/this-industry-is-fucked/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 101 comments

It’s Not Just the Drug War (2015)

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/mass-incarceration-war-on-drugs/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Solaris 12 removed from Oracle roadmap, Solaris 11.next planned as next release

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/18/solaris_12_disappears_from_oracles_roadmap/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

PIX – A performance tuning and debugging tool for game developers

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pix/2017/01/17/introducing-pix-on-windows-beta/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments
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