top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-01

GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik/pub

9 years ago

1162 upvotes – 598 comments

An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster

https://andychase.me/mail/gigster-contract/

9 years ago

821 upvotes – 265 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679

9 years ago

690 upvotes – 1222 comments

Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/introducing-lottie-4ff4a0afac0e

9 years ago

643 upvotes – 97 comments

Four Column ASCII

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/

9 years ago

569 upvotes – 68 comments

The JVM is not that heavy

https://www.opensourcery.co.za/2017/01/05/the-jvm-is-not-that-heavy/

9 years ago

549 upvotes – 367 comments

Data Loss at GitLab

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/dataloss-at-gitlab/

9 years ago

476 upvotes – 228 comments

'Check Your Backups Work' Day

http://checkyourbackups.work

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 147 comments

Million requests per second with Python

https://medium.com/@squeaky_pl/million-requests-per-second-with-python-95c137af319#.3eiek12me

9 years ago

452 upvotes – 169 comments

Unlearning descriptive statistics

http://debrouwere.org/2017/02/01/unlearning-descriptive-statistics/

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 92 comments

Reuters' position on covering Trump

http://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-adlertrump-idUSKBN15F276

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 244 comments

Using Vim as a Python IDE

http://www.liuchengxu.org/posts/use-vim-as-a-python-ide/

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 152 comments

The .NET Language Strategy

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-language-strategy/

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 267 comments

The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps

http://www.macworld.com/article/3163248/ios/the-future-of-ios-is-64-bit-only-apple-to-stop-support-of-32-bit-apps.html

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 294 comments

A Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden in a Hollywood Apartment for Decades

http://petrolicious.com/apartment-find-this-ferrari-250-gt-pf-coupe-was-hidden-in-hollywood-for-decades

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 92 comments

Introducing The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal

http://programming-journal.org/

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 33 comments

Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/facebook-oculus-zenimax-decision-1201975648/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.arrived.arrived

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 82 comments

Piskel – A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art

http://www.piskelapp.com/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 26 comments

Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/apple-developing-new-mac-chip-in-test-of-intel-independence

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 257 comments

Scott Kelly's DNA shows unexpected telomere lengthening after year in space

http://www.nature.com/news/astronaut-twin-study-hints-at-stress-of-space-travel-1.21380

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 59 comments

Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/01/tesla-motors-inc-is-now-officially-tesla-inc/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures

https://mgba.io/2014/12/28/classic-nes/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 75 comments

6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

http://introtodeeplearning.com/index.html

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 20 comments

“Becoming Warren Buffett,” the Man, Not the Investor

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/becoming-warren-buffett-the-man-not-the-investor?intcid=mod-latest

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 100 comments

Fake News Challenge

http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 220 comments

Stop Filing Bugs, File a Container

http://blog.runkit.com/2017/02/01/stop-filing-bugs-file-a-container.html

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 99 comments

Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2017/01/time-to-upgrade-your-python-tls-v12.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 52 comments

Living a Meaningful Life

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170131-the-secret-to-living-a-meaningful-life

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

https://github.com/FredKSchott/CoVim

9 years ago

★ 2.9k Vim script MIT
142 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13540952

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 114 comments

HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point

https://www.troyhunt.com/https-adoption-has-reached-the-tipping-point/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 83 comments

Causality in machine learning

http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2017/01/causality-in-machine-learning.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 65 comments

How Australia is stubbing out smoking

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38733502

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 317 comments

SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/sha512-faster-than-sha256

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 13 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: January 2017

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/02/01/dolphin-progress-report-january-2017/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How to answer properly “Why we should hire you” question?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541257

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 119 comments

Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room (2013)

https://nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-illegal-japan-workers-are-sent-to-the-boredom-room.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&referer=http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 174 comments

Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned

http://engineering.curalate.com/2017/02/01/mechanical-turk-lessons-learned.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 81 comments

Causal inference in Python

https://github.com/akelleh/causality

9 years ago

★ 1k Python MIT
87 upvotes – 6 comments

The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIGP9X9E40

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments
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