top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-07

Hans Rosling has died

https://m.gapminder.org/news/sad-to-announce-hans-rosling-passed-away-this-morning/

9 years ago

846 upvotes – 135 comments

What programming languages are used most on weekends?

http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/What-Programming-Languages-Weekends/?cb=1

9 years ago

782 upvotes – 288 comments

Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing

https://github.com/oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures

9 years ago

★ 15.8k
601 upvotes – 66 comments

YC Research: Universal Healthcare

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research-universal-healthcare/

9 years ago

576 upvotes – 346 comments

Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-the-web/

9 years ago

576 upvotes – 625 comments

The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html

9 years ago

396 upvotes – 97 comments

Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/06/vue-big-plan/

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 290 comments

Privacy is Power: Why the fight for privacy matters

https://journal.standardnotes.org/privacy-is-power-f0a064ab36ea#.9op3ljljh

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 147 comments

Violating Terms of Use Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Court

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/violating-terms-use-isnt-crime-eff-tells-court-again

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 100 comments

How I built the IMDb message boards, in 2001

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/internet/imdb-boards-no-more

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 59 comments

Container orchestration: Moving from fleet to Kubernetes

https://coreos.com/blog/migrating-from-fleet-to-kubernetes.html

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 73 comments

What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 61 comments

India floats the idea of a universal basic income

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21716064-powerful-idea-unfeasible-now-india-floats-idea-universal

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 233 comments

House Passes E-mail Privacy Act

http://www.multichannel.com/news/congress/house-passes-e-mail-privacy-act/410716

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 112 comments

Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603431/as-goldman-embraces-automation-even-the-masters-of-the-universe-are-threatened/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 151 comments

FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/06/fbi-foia-fax-march-2017/

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 98 comments

State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/1/31/state-of-clojure-2016-results

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 78 comments

I hate almost all software (2011)

http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 144 comments

MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3

https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 162 comments

Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts

https://therivardreport.com/rackspace-lays-off-200-locals-in-companywide-cuts/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 123 comments

A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/a330-flight-control-laws-saved-voyager-inquiry-find-410491/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 177 comments

De-Anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks [pdf]

http://randomwalker.info/publications/browsing-history-deanonymization.pdf

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 51 comments

Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/#603fd1ab22db

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 198 comments

TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-tensorflow-fold-deep.html

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 24 comments

Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes on Wall Street with AI Trader

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-06/silicon-valley-hedge-fund-takes-on-wall-street-with-ai-trader

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 109 comments

Romania is developing its own culture of protests

http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/06/view-romania-politics-protests-corruption

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Who's firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591889

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 46 comments

The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception [pdf]

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdf

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 65 comments

What Historians Wish People Knew About Drugs, Part II: Isaac Campos

https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/what-historians-wish-people-knew-about-drugs-part-ii-isaac-campos/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 84 comments

NASA's Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6734&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=daily20170206-1#.WJlBs6uEyNQ.hackernews

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 7 comments

Game theory in practice (2011)

http://www.economist.com/node/21527025

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 23 comments

Urbit in 2017

https://urbit.org/blog/2017.1-update/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13587767

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 138 comments

68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code

http://mattwarren.org/2017/02/07/The-68-things-the-CLR-does-before-executing-a-single-line-of-your-code/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 12 comments

Demystifying Word2Vec

http://www.deeplearningweekly.com/blog/demystifying-word2vec

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 14 comments

Dwarf Fortress and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interface

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/07/dwarf-fortress-how-to-stockpiles/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 127 comments

How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2

http://thefinanser.com/2017/02/banks-getting-around-open-banking-psd2.html/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 109 comments

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt

http://renderositymagazine.com/an-interview-with-krita-maintainer-boudewijn-rempt-cms-992

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 14 comments

Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/06/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-sending-data/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 6 comments

Partcl – a tiny command language

http://zserge.com/blog/tcl-interpreter.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 19 comments

Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing

http://screenster.io/selenium-ide-alternatives-for-ui-regression-testing/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

http://www.milanote.com

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 75 comments

Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/stock-trading-bot-1?utm_source=hacker-news

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 114 comments

Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, makes them pass

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen

9 years ago

★ 15.4kJavaScriptMIT
91 upvotes – 8 comments

Lessons from Doing YC Twice – Harj Taggar [video]

https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-doing-yc-twice-harj-taggar/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 3 comments

Systemd's slowly but steadily increased idealism about the world

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdAndItsIdealism

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 58 comments

Tesla Model S P100DL Motor Trend all-time world record 60mph in 2.27s

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/828981873086865410

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments
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