top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-30

Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891

9 years ago

551 upvotes – 264 comments

Parse is shutting down today

https://status.parse.com/incidents/6mpkbscqw6p9

9 years ago

435 upvotes – 238 comments

Hollywood as We Know It Is Over

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-know-it-is-already-over

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 516 comments

Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement

http://dmitryzavyalov.livejournal.com/712.html?utm_source=fbsharing&utm_medium=social

9 years ago

412 upvotes – 207 comments

I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the-dream/

9 years ago

411 upvotes – 262 comments

Guided meditation for beginners

http://quietkit.com/

9 years ago

393 upvotes – 128 comments

Masaya Nakamura, Japanese arcade pioneer, has died

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/japanese-arcade-pioneer-father-of-pac-man-has-died

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 80 comments

The Algorithms Behind Probabilistic Programming

http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/01/30/the-algorithms-behind-probabilistic-programming.html

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 23 comments

Dropbox Paper

https://www.dropbox.com/paper

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 210 comments

Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9834.html

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 189 comments

Make America Hate Again

http://avc.com/2017/01/make-america-hate-again/

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 342 comments

Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/trump-s-next-move-on-immigration-to-hit-closer-to-home-for-tech

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 362 comments

I Only Work Remotely

https://shift.newco.co/why-i-only-work-remotely-2e5eb07ae28f#.e7ao8hp5i

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 212 comments

Cryptkeeper sets the same password “p” independently of user input

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852751

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 119 comments

The Craft of Text Editing (1999)

https://www.finseth.com/craft/

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 47 comments

Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/tripling-down-against-conference.html

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 176 comments

How to Build a Medieval Castle (2016)

http://www.historyextra.com/article/premium/how-build-medieval-castle

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 57 comments

Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/01/fission-serverless-functions-as-service-for-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 72 comments

Navigating Mid-Success

https://blog.ycombinator.com/navigating-mid-success/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 57 comments

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 81 comments

TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki

http://tiddlywiki.com/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 55 comments

Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38793253

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 206 comments

Lossless Web Navigation with Trails

https://medium.com/@patrykadas/lossless-web-navigation-with-trails-9cd48c0abb56

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 55 comments

Twitter Activist Security

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/twitter-activist-security-7c806bae9cb0#.881ljtvmr

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 37 comments

Urge President Trump to give scientists a seat at the table

http://www.314action.org/home

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Code Cards – Anki for code

https://codecards.me/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 52 comments

Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-drinking-water-of-33-states/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 112 comments

IBM Punched Card Typography

http://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 10 comments

Wanted: Factory Workers, Degree Required

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 157 comments

A Genetic Fix to Put the Taste Back in Tomatoes

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/science/better-tasting-tomatoes-genes.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 154 comments

“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6137#issuecomment-275954709

9 years ago

★ 26.9k C++
133 upvotes – 157 comments

Dropbox’s Smart Sync lets users open a file stored only in the cloud like normal

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/30/dropboxs-smart-sync-lets-users-open-a-file-stored-only-in-the-cloud-like-any-normal-file/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Fifty Shades of Gray Code

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/25/fifty-shades-of-gray-code/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-camus-and-sartre-split-up-over-the-question-of-how-to-be-free

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Saudi Arabia builds 600-mile border wall equipped with Airbus radar and helipads

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11344116/Revealed-Saudi-Arabias-Great-Wall-to-keep-out-Isil.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

It's Fred Korematsu Day: Celebrating a Foe of U.S. Internment Camps

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/512488821/its-fred-korematsu-day-celebrating-a-foe-of-u-s-internment-camps

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 14 comments

Don't Mess with Texas – TI-99/4A Megademo [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSUhE03XFw&feature=youtu.be

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 73 comments

Fitbit will lay off 110 employees amid challenges in wearable market

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14439028/fibit-layoffs-q4-earnings-report-weak-holiday-sales

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 120 comments

Release of Mithril 1.0

http://mithril.js.org/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting-endangering-loans

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 127 comments

The Domain-Driven Design Paradox (2016)

http://ouarzy.azurewebsites.net/2016/02/17/the-ddd-paradox/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

The Immigration Ban Is a Headfake, and We’re Falling for It

https://medium.com/@jakefuentes/the-immigration-ban-is-a-headfake-and-were-falling-for-it-b8910e78f0c5#.9hbbusxs2

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS Lambda

https://blog.readme.io/writing-a-cron-job-microservice-with-serverless-and-aws-lambda/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

How both TCP and Ethernet checksums fail (2015)

http://www.evanjones.ca/tcp-and-ethernet-checksums-fail.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming

http://www.ceu-lang.org

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against Trump immigration order

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-microsoft-idUSKBN15E2IY

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 90 comments

The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea

http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/128/the-multiverse-is-an-ancient-idea

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Are there any startups willing to use the ASP.NET Core technology?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13525852

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 64 comments

React Router: Declarative Routing for React

https://reacttraining.com/react-router/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 65 comments

Wraparound tile maps with sphere topology

http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1640-hexagon-tiling-of-sphere/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Libfmsynth: a C library which implements an FM synthesizer

https://github.com/Themaister/libfmsynth

9 years ago

★ 357 C MIT
84 upvotes – 19 comments

Many terms commonly used in computer programming originated with Mark I

http://sites.harvard.edu/~chsi/markone/language.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the Center of the Tech World

http://humansfromthepast.blogspot.com/2017/01/colorful-photographs-taken-of-san.html

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

9 years ago

★ 5.4k C# MIT
81 upvotes – 36 comments

More than one million people will work from coworking spaces in 2017

http://www.deskmag.com/en/the-complete-2017-coworking-forecast-more-than-one-million-people-work-from-14000-coworking-spaces-s

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence

https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper

http://blog.unixcat.org/?p=91

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Study Finds Uber Doesn’t Put Taxi Drivers Out of Work But Does Drive Down Pay

http://fortune.com/2017/01/28/uber-taxi-oxford-labor-data/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

I was trained for the culture wars in home school

https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Snapchat will file for IPO next week

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/27/snapchat-will-file-for-ipo-next-week/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Trial Balloon for a Coup?

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.kucsawcoj

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 69 comments
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