top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-02-03

Ventusky – Weather data visualization

https://www.ventusky.com/

9 years ago

849 upvotes – 108 comments

Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/

9 years ago

805 upvotes – 274 comments

Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-soars-340k-employees-adding-110k-people-single-year/

9 years ago

506 upvotes – 395 comments

Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/raytrace1_breakdown/

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 48 comments

What should you think about when using Facebook?

http://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 234 comments

Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/snap-commits-2-billion-over-5-years-for-google-cloud-infrastructure/

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 286 comments

SQLITE: JSON1 Extension

https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 70 comments

The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/science/sleep-memory-brain-forgetting.html?_r=0

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 110 comments

Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2004/11/nullsoft_19972004.html

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 168 comments

The Gray-1, a homebrew CPU exclusively composed of memory

http://2x-1.net/ob/gray1/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 48 comments
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