top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-26

Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736009

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735610

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 167 comments

The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310

http://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 259 comments

Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

https://cerebroapp.com/

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 156 comments

Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 232 comments

Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/saudi-arabia-2-trillion-aramco-vision-runs-into-market-reality

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 284 comments

Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/business/sony-playstation-vr-sales.html

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 162 comments

Mathematicians becoming data scientists

https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/mathematicians-becoming-data-scientists-should-you-how-to/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 114 comments

No publication without confirmation

http://www.nature.com/news/no-publication-without-confirmation-1.21509

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 111 comments

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 175 comments

Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

http://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/?vt=4

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 17 comments

US billionaire helped to back Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/us-billionaire-mercer-helped-back-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 135 comments

Real-time, collaborative Markdown editor with end-to-end encryption

https://standardnotes.org/extensions/collaborative-editor

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: PumpkinDB, an event sourcing database engine

http://pumpkindb.org

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 48 comments

Examples of unexpected mathematical images

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/178139/examples-of-unexpected-mathematical-images

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 10 comments

How Nasty Gal Went from an $85M Company to Bankruptcy

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/201702243741/how-nasty-gal-went-from-an-85-million-company-to-bankruptcy.aspx

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 113 comments

What's Really Warming the World?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 211 comments

Deploying PostgreSQL Clusters Using StatefulSets

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/postgresql-clusters-kubernetes-statefulsets.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 65 comments

Multihash – self-describing hashes

http://multiformats.io/multihash

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 68 comments

Bruce Lee’s Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/22/in-my-own-process-bruce-lee/

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 3 comments

Epoll is fundamentally broken

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-12/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

GCC optimized code gives strange floating point results

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 119 comments

Pdftabextract – A set of tools for data mining OCR-processed PDFs

https://github.com/WZBSocialScienceCenter/pdftabextract

9 years ago

★ 2.2kPythonApache-2.0
143 upvotes – 4 comments

Charlie Munger on Getting Rich, Wisdom, Focus, Fake Knowledge and More

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/charlie-munger-wisdom/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 15 comments

Americans Hold Over $4.1T in Consumer Debt

http://60secondstatistics.com/americans-hold-over-4-1-trillion-in-consumer-debt/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 197 comments

Mastering HTTP Caching – from request to response and everything

https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mastering-http-caching

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: A Simple Website for Checking Cloudbleed from Browser's History

https://cloudbleed.github.io/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07274

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 6 comments

Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – no connection to Swedish security

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/fake-sweden-expert-on-fox-news-has-criminal-convictions-in-us-no-connection-to-swedish-security/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Do you make more than $200K? What did you have to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13739572

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 94 comments

The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21717430-success-nvidia-and-its-new-computing-chip-signals-rapid-change-it-architecture

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 55 comments

Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates

https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/21/fingerprinting-firefox-users-with-cached-intermediate-ca-certificates-fiprinca/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Military Prison in Syria

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068329/infographic-of-the-day/how-forensic-architecture-revealed-details-of-a-secret-military-priso

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

Intro to graph compression techniques for in-memory graph computation (2015) [pdf]

https://www.cs.umd.edu/sites/default/files/scholarly_papers/Chavan.pdf

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 7 comments

Buffett Assails Money-Manager Fees as Berkshire Reports Profit Rise

https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-has-no-doubt-on-passive-bet-1488037970

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Are people lying about their salaries?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13740471

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 77 comments

GPU-Oriented PCIe Expansion Cluster

http://amfeltec.com/products/gpu-oriented-cluster/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

The Oxford degree that runs Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford-university-degree-that-rules-britain?CMP=fb_gu

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 57 comments

Managing SELinux with Puppet

https://tag1consulting.com/blog/stop-disabling-selinux-manage-it-with-puppet

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

RIP LivingSocial: The fast rise and slow demise of a daily deals company

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/02/25/rip-livingsocial-the-fast-rise-and-slow-demise-of-a-daily-deals-company/?utm_term=.0deeebc01efb

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Summary of 'Programs with Common Sense' (1959) by John McCarthy

http://www.jackhoy.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/02/24/summary-of-programs-with-common-sense-john-mccarthy.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: What should I tell my cousin who wants to go to a “coding boot camp”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13740781

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 143 comments

How RCA Lost the LCD (2012)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/how-rca-lost-the-lcd

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

An Opinionated React Progressive Web App Repository

https://github.com/simonfl3tcher/react-progressive-web-app

9 years ago

★ 541JavaScriptMIT
71 upvotes – 33 comments
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