top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-16

Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

9 years ago

813 upvotes – 229 comments

Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/think_different_shut_up_and_work_harder_says_linus_torvalds/

9 years ago

651 upvotes – 172 comments

What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/what-could-happen-if-you-refuse-to-unlock-your-phone-at-the-us-border/

9 years ago

445 upvotes – 477 comments

YC Annual Letter 2017

http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 151 comments

Samsung chief Lee arrested as S.Korean corruption probe deepens

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-samsung-group-idUSKBN15V2RD

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 110 comments

Software developers who started after 35, 40 or 50

https://belitsoft.com/php-development-services/its-not-too-late-become-software-developer-after-age-35-40-or-50-top-10-true-great-success-stories

9 years ago

398 upvotes – 158 comments

Go 1.8 Release Notes

https://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.8

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 190 comments

Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book

https://rust-lang.github.io/book/

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 108 comments

DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online

https://spreadprivacy.com/2017-donations-d6e4e4230b88#.kazx95v27

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 91 comments

Master C++ Programming with Open-Source Books

https://www.ossblog.org/master-c-programming-with-open-source-books/

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 104 comments

CockroachDB beta-20161013

https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20161013

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 203 comments

Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples

https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 82 comments

Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk-is-really-boring

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 271 comments

Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659160

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 248 comments

Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 47.7k
268 upvotes – 110 comments

Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS

https://github.com/wallix/awless

9 years ago

★ 4.9kGoApache-2.0
212 upvotes – 112 comments

Attacking the Windows Nvidia Driver

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/02/attacking-windows-nvidia-driver.html

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 74 comments

Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer

https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/quasistatic-cavity-resonance-for-ubiquitous-wireless-power-transfer/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 73 comments

A discussion of Fedora’s legal state

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/714524/0c495ef932cd49a8/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 77 comments

Citus 6.1 Released – Horizontally scale your Postgres database

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/02/16/citus-61-released/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 38 comments
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