top 50% 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

Node v7.5.0 Released

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.5.0

9 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
281 upvotes – 136 comments

Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/technology/ad-blocking-internet.html?mabReward=A3&recp=0&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 321 comments

Google’s SRE book is now public

https://landing.google.com/sre/book/

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 16 comments

Whonix – A desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy

https://www.whonix.org

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 55 comments

The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized Internet to the poor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/03/the-fcc-is-stopping-9-companies-from-providing-subsidized-broadband-to-the-poor/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 105 comments

Google must turn over foreign-stored emails pursuant to a warrant, court rules

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/02/03/google-must-turn-over-foreign-stored-e-mails-pursuant-to-a-warrant-court-rules/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 115 comments

Copper is key in burning fat

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/1906.html

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 173 comments

Making Google Data Studio Free for Everyone

https://analytics.googleblog.com/2017/02/making-google-data-studio-free-for.html

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 48 comments

Generals.io Bot API: Build bots to play against humans

http://dev.generals.io

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 48 comments

Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/02/using-machine-learning-to-predict.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 34 comments

Military Reading List

http://www.bookadvice.co/military-reading-list.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 48 comments

Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many applications

http://1014.org/?article=697

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 28 comments

During WWII, U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/italian-americans-were-considered-enemy-aliens-world-war-ii-180962021/?no-ist

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 204 comments

Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (2009)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 29 comments

Former Norway PM held at Washington airport over 2014 visit to Iran

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/03/former-norway-pm-bondevik-held-washington-dulles-airport-2014-visit-iran

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 89 comments

An Introduction to Counterfactual Regret Minimization

http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/modelai/2013/cfr/index.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 28 comments

Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/03/512473383/building-and-losing-a-career-on-facebook

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 59 comments

Scaling Git, and some back story

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-git-and-some-back-story/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 17 comments

A Bitter Ending

http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Bitter-Ending/238990?key=8KXTREb5_9Vj7FgHzdRcFslErlxHaaxTUIOQGnu0ivAHf-Z6vY9xuY4nPO_6HhIGRFJpa3VPT1FSNGZUUmsyU1gxaWxHSWNSVTJmMDZyV2NXcEV5OHNPd3poaw

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 37 comments

Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise

https://qz.com/900195/amazons-alexa-isnt-the-future-of-ai-its-a-glorified-radio-clock-and-stupid-otherwise/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

New data show that joining the 1% remains unsettlingly hereditary

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21715735-new-data-show-joining-1-remains-unsettlingly-hereditary-skipping-class

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 204 comments

WorkinTech – Find a Tech Job

http://workintech.io/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 10 comments

Snaps are universal Linux packages

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd

9 years ago

★ 2k Go GPL-3.0
117 upvotes – 97 comments

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/amazons-antitrust-paradox

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 100 comments

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 177 comments

'Expanse' Co-Creator on Writing, Star Citizen, and Why He Hated Mass Effect 3

http://www.glixel.com/interviews/expanse-writer-franck-on-star-citizen-mass-effect-3-w464385

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 106 comments

What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week?

http://imgur.com/bh3soMC

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

The Great Crime: How an American Diplomat Resisted the Armenian Genocide

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/03/the-great-crime/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Incorporating a limited company in Germany

https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/incorporating-in-germany/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 110 comments

Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 83 comments

From dependency injection to dependency rejection

http://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/01/27/from-dependency-injection-to-dependency-rejection/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Why don't developers unionize?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13564440

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 140 comments

A surgeon is giving patients VR instead of sedatives

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170202-the-surgeon-using-virtual-reality-instead-of-sedatives?ocid=global_future_rss

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 97 comments

Create your own Version of Microsoft BASIC for 6502

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Is Private Browsing Really Private?

https://spreadprivacy.com/private-browsing-9276d6d16ea4#.vmexmv7rb

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Against Willpower

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/against-willpower

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

A letter to the Editorial Board, Journal of Algorithms (2003) [pdf]

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/joalet.pdf

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

The trouble with FreeBSD

https://lwn.net/Articles/712308/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 131 comments

Windows DRM Files Used to Decloak Tor Browser Users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-drm-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent

https://melown.com/intergeo2016

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Spotify may delay IPO to 2018 as it rethinks licensing deals

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/sources-spotify-may-delay-ipo-to-2018-as-it-rethinks-licensing-deals/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

How Think Tanks Became Engines of Royal Propaganda

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/222421/think-tanks-jacob-soll-propaganda

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Who uses Azure ML?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559143

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

My Farewell to Twitter

http://passionatereason.com/2017/01/my-farewell-to-twitter/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

RxGo: Reactive Extensions for the Go Language

https://github.com/jochasinga/RxGo

9 years ago

★ 5k Go MIT
74 upvotes – 30 comments

Defeating Quantum Algorithms with Hash Functions

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2017/02/01/defeating-quantum-algorithms-with-hash-functions/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/facebooks-ai-unlocks-the-ability-to-search-photos-by-whats-in-them/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

Rust required to build Gecko

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/Gzwh1IbxvHE/qs49_VAdAwAJ

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments
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