top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-24

Wine 2.0 released

https://www.winehq.org/announce/2.0

9 years ago

896 upvotes – 303 comments

Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs

http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-throttles.html

9 years ago

811 upvotes – 389 comments

iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewIniOS/Articles/iOS10_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40017594-DontLinkElementID_39

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 213 comments

KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX

https://keepassxreboot.github.io/

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 228 comments

Firefox 51.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/51.0/releasenotes/

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 147 comments

Systemd v228 local root exploit

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 152 comments

Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets

http://www.fiercecable.com/cable/3d-tv-officially-dead-as-sony-and-lg-stop-making-sets

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 432 comments

Making the move from Scala to Go

https://movio.co/blog/migrate-Scala-to-Go/

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 367 comments

A story of a designer learning math

https://blog.framer.com/a-story-of-a-designer-conquering-mathematics-d0fd4585f0ba#.jb7sl9qku

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 87 comments

TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

http://web.archive.org/web/20041101143311/http://www.stanforddaily.com/tempo?page=content&id=13497&repository=0001_article

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DawnSprite.MathAttack

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 113 comments

How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170123-how-insects-like-bumblebees-do-so-much-with-tiny-brains

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 135 comments

Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472279

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 136 comments

Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing

http://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/istc.html

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 50 comments

USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-usda-idUSKBN1582OB

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 216 comments

What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)

https://pragprog.com/articles/erlang/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 188 comments

Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-land-lawsuits-kauai-estate

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 170 comments

Spinner

https://www.google.com/search?q=spinner&hl=en

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13470985

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 115 comments

The struggle with Rust

https://ayende.com/blog/176801/the-struggle-with-rust?Key=ed64b64e-91c9-41be-ba0f-348641976e20

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 295 comments

DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Rails-a-framework-worth-learning-in-2017/answer/David-Heinemeier-Hansson?srid=tfS&share=1

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 130 comments

Microsoft Appoints Kevin Scott as CTO

http://news.microsoft.com/2017/01/24/microsoft-appoints-kevin-scott-as-chief-technology-officer/#sm.0000kotnlds95ejwph729vdp4mmhf#Smvs70bGj6r6ms74.97

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13468508

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 143 comments

Toyota's Gill Pratt on Self-Driving Cars and the Reality of Full Autonomy

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/toyota-gill-pratt-on-the-reality-of-full-autonomy

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 232 comments

Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/supreme-court-should-block-printer-companys-ploy-undermine-consumer-rights

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 53 comments

Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars

http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 209 comments

Safari 10.1

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_10_1.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 158 comments

Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/01/24/gets-better-video-gaming-non-secure-web-warning/

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 44 comments

New CIA Chief to Gladly Spy on Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked by Russians

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170123/10335936551/proposed-cia-chief-seems-happy-to-spy-americans-even-if-using-info-hacked-russians.shtml

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Is there really a market for deep learning skills without a Ph.D?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472331

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 58 comments

Robots Are Taking Over Oil Rigs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-24/robots-are-taking-over-oil-rigs-as-roughnecks-become-expendable

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 174 comments

Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (2013)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04481v1

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 18 comments

If you were an elephant

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/if-you-were-an-elephant-

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 45 comments

Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost from the Young

https://nytimes.com/2017/01/23/upshot/peak-millennial-cities-cant-assume-a-continued-boost-from-the-young.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 321 comments

BitTorrent vs. HTTP

https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/bittorrent-vs-http.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 144 comments

Java Is Unsound: The Industry Perspective

https://dev.to/rosstate/java-is-unsound-the-industry-perspective

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 70 comments

Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/01/kotlin-1-1-whats-coming-in-the-standard-library/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 85 comments

Launch HN: Scaphold.io (YC W17) – GraphQL Backend as a Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13474042

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning

http://hn10.org/index.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy

https://iridiumbrowser.de/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning datasets

http://www.datapie.in/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

What we actually lose when the USDA and EPA can’t talk to the public

http://www.popsci.com/usda-epa-science-gag-order-government

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

Rsync.net – Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups

http://www.rsync.net/index.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 119 comments

Thoughts on the Systemd Root Exploit

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/thoughts_on_the_systemd_root_exploit

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 77 comments

My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzmm87oVQ6c

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-capture-sonic-boom-light-180961887/?no-ist

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Analysis of 100M Taxi Trips in Chicago Shows Usage Declining 35% per Year

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/chicago-taxi-data/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

Librarian removes controversial list of "predatory" journals and publishers

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Velodyne Plans a Lidar Megafactory

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/velodyne-to-build-lidar-megafactory

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

Parliament must vote on whether government can start Brexit process

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38720320

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 94 comments

The Relationship Between Skyscrapers and Great Cities

http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/skyscrapers-cities-tall-buildings/431655/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments
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