top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-06

What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/what-vizio-was-doing-behind-tv-screen

9 years ago

888 upvotes – 333 comments

RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-joins-linux-foundation?

9 years ago

733 upvotes – 106 comments

RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0

https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-liberation-of-rethinkdb

9 years ago

686 upvotes – 164 comments

Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576236

9 years ago

657 upvotes – 1002 comments

React Native at Instagram

https://engineering.instagram.com/react-native-at-instagram-dd828a9a90c7#.88g2rf8hr

9 years ago

589 upvotes – 233 comments

Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/technology/trumps-fcc-quickly-targets-net-neutrality-rules.html

9 years ago

562 upvotes – 404 comments

Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-h-1b_us_5890d86ce4b0522c7d3d84af?

9 years ago

509 upvotes – 468 comments

CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000800040003-6.pdf

9 years ago

465 upvotes – 260 comments

Rust's 2017 Roadmap

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/06/roadmap.html

9 years ago

419 upvotes – 266 comments

Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/

9 years ago

391 upvotes – 302 comments

Learn C Programming with Open-Source Books

https://www.ossblog.org/learn-c-programming-with-9-excellent-open-source-books/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 49 comments

Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads

https://students.googleblog.com/2017/02/intern-impact-brotli-compression-for.html

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 172 comments

Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)

http://pcmonk.me/2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-general-purpose-tree-editor.html?

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 212 comments

Sandstorm is returning to its community roots

https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-02-06-sandstorm-returning-to-community-roots

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 102 comments

Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/federal-court-rules-against-publicresourceorg-says-public-safety-laws-can-be

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 68 comments

What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/02/what-rust-can-do-that-other-languages.html

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 245 comments

Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/business/h-1b-visa-tech-cheers-for-foreign-workers.html?_r=0

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 332 comments

Google fixes a problem with AMP, lets you view and share publisher’s own links

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/06/google-fixes-a-big-problem-with-amp-now-lets-you-view-and-share-publishers-own-links/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 199 comments

Amicus brief on behalf of 97 tech companies

https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 210 comments

Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4490.html

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 52 comments

Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki

http://www.wanhala.net/post/156484186523/figuring-out-the-best-place-to-live-in-helsinki

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 47 comments

Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers

https://myopsblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/why-databases-is-not-for-containers/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 175 comments

Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579838

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 152 comments

Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s not just Cisco hit

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 65 comments

In Defense of C++

https://eklitzke.org/in-defense-of-c++

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 331 comments

Why I moved from Angular to React

https://www.robinwieruch.de/reasons-why-i-moved-from-angular-to-react/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 93 comments

VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/02/vizio-pay-22-million-ftc-state-new-jersey-settle-charges-it

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service

https://scaley.io/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 81 comments

Is the Linux Desktop less secure than Windows 10? [pdf]

https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/linux_desktop_versus_windows10/attachments/slides/1730/export/events/attachments/linux_desktop_versus_windows10/slides/1730/fosdem_linux_desktop_security.pdf

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 182 comments

Whatever happened to Winamp?

https://rocknerd.co.uk/2017/02/05/whatever-happened-to-winamp-which-you-can-still-download-by-the-way/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 141 comments

Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/op-ed-when-marketers-drive-microsofts-0day-exploit-communications-we-all-lose/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 76 comments

Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts'

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-ma-if-trade-stops-war-starts-2017-2

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 228 comments

Understanding the economic significance of the light bulb

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38650976

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 93 comments

The Netherlands Closes Prisons Because It Doesn't Have Enough Prisoners

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3067771/the-netherlands-keeps-closing-prisons-because-it-doesnt-have-enough-prisoners

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 87 comments

The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials into the New Serfs

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/04/the-high-cost-of-a-home-is-turning-american-millennials-into-the-new-serfs.html

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 190 comments

Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.2: Managed State and More

https://rocket.rs/news/2017-02-06-version-0.2/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (2014)

http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_pca_step_by_step.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 26 comments

Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones

https://blog.ycombinator.com/fundraising-rounds-are-not-milestones/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed

https://medium.com/@CardsAgainstHumanity/why-our-super-bowl-ad-failed-2af66e6a976c

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 37 comments

Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos

http://www.spacebuckets.com/#c

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 100 comments

We may have reached peak “gig” economy

https://qz.com/837237/people-are-getting-sick-of-working-in-the-sharing-economy/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578675

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 87 comments

Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations

http://petersantenello.com/2017/02/06/living-in-kiev-my-first-3-months-of-observations/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13583393

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 217 comments

Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)

https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

FCC rescinds claim that AT&T and Verizon violated net neutrality

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

Pixel Recursive Super Resolution

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00783

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments
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