top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-25

Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python

https://github.com/eriklindernoren/ML-From-Scratch

9 years ago

★ 31.3k Python MIT
694 upvotes – 63 comments

Cloudflare data still in Bing caches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13727279

9 years ago

649 upvotes – 246 comments

Annotation is now a web standard

https://hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/

9 years ago

627 upvotes – 157 comments

Linus on Git and SHA-1

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/7tp2gYWQugL

9 years ago

550 upvotes – 170 comments

Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf]

http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf

9 years ago

396 upvotes – 310 comments

The Future of Not Working

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/universal-income-global-inequality.html

9 years ago

387 upvotes – 263 comments

Id Software Programming Principles

http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/02/25/id-software-programming-principles/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout

https://github.com/JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper

9 years ago

★ 1.6k Java Apache-2.0
283 upvotes – 92 comments

AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-overclocking-performance/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 201 comments

Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/business/energy-environment/deforestation-brazil-bolivia-south-america.html

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 113 comments

DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-food-1.3993967

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 244 comments

As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?

http://brianknapp.me/software-engineer-best-skill/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 156 comments

Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

https://brandur.org/interfaces

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 82 comments

A self-driving Uber ran a red light last December, contrary to company claims

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/25/14737374/uber-self-driving-car-red-light-december-contrary-company-claims

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

The power of role models

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-power-of-role-models.html

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 354 comments

Unofficial MySQL 8.0 Optimizer Guide

http://www.unofficialmysqlguide.com/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 18 comments

A Man Stopped Thousands of People Becoming HIV-Positive

https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/meet-the-man-who-stopped-thousands-of-people-becoming-hiv-po

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 48 comments

The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone

http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/24/complicated-weird-beautiful-the-secret-google-project-to-put-an-aquarium-full-of-tiny-wiggly-water-bears-inside-your-phone/

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 84 comments

Engineers Should Blog

https://insights.excitingrole.com/why-engineers-should-blog-88ecf97d2628#.olwjketnr

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 127 comments

Staffjoy’s Suite – A scheduling application for hundreds of workers

https://github.com/Staffjoy/suite

9 years ago

★ 859 Python
170 upvotes – 41 comments

Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-blocks-anonymous-chat-app-developer-says-2017-2

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 80 comments

Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed Up Password Cracking

http://fsecurify.com/using-ordered-markov-chains-and-user-information-to-speed-up-password-cracking/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 59 comments

One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you

http://vitiral.github.io/2017/02/25/one-year-with-rust.html

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments

Postmodern Error Handling in Python 3.6

http://journalpanic.com/post/postmodern-error-handling/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 146 comments

Brazil’s Love Affair with Uber Has Been Ruined by Kidnapping, Robbery and Murder

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brazils-love-affair-with-uber-has-been-ruined-by-kidnapping-robbery-and-murder

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions

http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Git-dit – a distributed issue tracker for git

https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit

9 years ago

★ 465 Rust
129 upvotes – 37 comments

Lessons from the History of Attacks on Secure Hash Functions

https://z.cash/technology/history-of-hash-function-attacks.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

Image Completion with Deep Learning in TensorFlow

https://github.com/bamos/dcgan-completion.tensorflow

9 years ago

★ 1.3k Python
119 upvotes – 2 comments

Announcing ggraph: A grammar of graphics for relational data

http://www.data-imaginist.com/2017/Announcing-ggraph/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th

https://support.google.com/spaces/answer/7326586

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 119 comments

Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, Servers, Vehicles

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11144/intel-launches-16core-atom-c3000-cpus-for-nas-servers-vehicles

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Why is there ancient Greek text on Afghan banknotes?

https://llewelynmorgan.com/2017/02/21/nota-bene/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

Who is Anthony Levandowski, and why is Google suing him?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/anthony-levandowski-google-uber-self-driving-cars-lawsuit

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39081476

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 108 comments

Easily Create Complex Workflows with AWS Step Functions

https://agilevision.io/blog/serverless%20architecture/2017/02/12/easily-create-complex-workflows-with-aws-step-functions.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

LSD 'microdosing' is trending in Silicon Valley

https://theconversation.com/lsd-microdosing-is-trending-in-silicon-valley-but-can-it-actually-make-you-more-creative-72747

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 131 comments

Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

http://www.ragic.com

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

I just deleted 36K tweets

https://ethankaplan.com/i-just-deleted-36000-tweets-91e196dc129f#.eolhoswgr

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface

https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com

9 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript AGPL-3.0
92 upvotes – 16 comments

People who eat 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/24/meet-people-eat-10-portions-fruit-vegetables-day

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 66 comments

My GF and I just opened the Digital Nomad House in Malta on a tiny rocky island

https://digitalnomads-malta.com/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

Giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain

http://www.nature.com/news/a-giant-neuron-found-wrapped-around-entire-mouse-brain-1.21539

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments
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