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December 2016 Archive
31.
This AI Boom Will Also Bust (overcomingbias.com)
662 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Dec 3, 2016 | 302 comments
32.
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
658 points by takinola on Dec 9, 2016 | 705 comments
33.
AngelList acquires Product Hunt (techcrunch.com)
656 points by gjenkin on Dec 1, 2016 | 265 comments
34.
New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation (pages.nist.gov)
642 points by aaronharnly on Dec 14, 2016 | 305 comments
35.
Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video] (darkpatterns.org)
639 points by alexpoulsen on Dec 6, 2016 | 311 comments
36.
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes (en.lichess.org)
639 points by akkartik on Dec 23, 2016 | 113 comments
37.
Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline (bloomberg.com)
632 points by kjhughes on Dec 8, 2016 | 441 comments
38.
Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)
631 points by petepete on Dec 13, 2016 | 327 comments
39.
To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) (nytimes.com)
618 points by jseliger on Dec 22, 2016 | 639 comments
40.
Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income (nytimes.com)
610 points by salmonet on Dec 17, 2016 | 394 comments
41.
Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly (godbolt.org)
602 points by setra on Dec 15, 2016 | 151 comments
42.
Talks that changed the way I think about programming (opowell.com)
593 points by greywolve on Dec 8, 2016 | 95 comments
43.
How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
586 points by ColanR on Dec 17, 2016 | 257 comments
44.
Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire (reddit.com)
576 points by ikeboy on Dec 7, 2016 | 212 comments
45.
Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps (kickstarter.engineering)
571 points by mecredis on Dec 14, 2016 | 73 comments
46.
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) (edw519.posthaven.com)
568 points by Mz on Dec 6, 2016 | 287 comments
47.
Why does calloc exist? (vorpus.org)
553 points by wyldfire on Dec 5, 2016 | 132 comments
48.
Why time management is ruining our lives (theguardian.com)
552 points by eoin_murphy on Dec 22, 2016 | 203 comments
49.
Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013) (istacee.wordpress.com)
550 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 8, 2016 | 354 comments
50.
My Favorite Books of 2016 (gatesnotes.com)
546 points by taylorwc on Dec 5, 2016 | 138 comments
51.
My Pixel has a manufacturing defect (9to5google.com)
544 points by ivank on Dec 10, 2016 | 344 comments
52.
GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 (bloomberg.com)
540 points by mobee on Dec 15, 2016 | 568 comments
53.
What Makes a Senior Software Developer? (blog.professorbeekums.com)
536 points by beekums on Dec 12, 2016 | 238 comments
54.
Pebble's next step (blog.getpebble.com)
529 points by david-given on Dec 7, 2016 | 442 comments
55.
Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe (radio.garden)
527 points by gamma_raj on Dec 13, 2016 | 110 comments
56.
Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier (talyarkoni.org)
525 points by geospeck on Dec 12, 2016 | 140 comments
57.
1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856 (rachelbythebay.com)
522 points by TimWolla on Dec 8, 2016 | 100 comments
58.
Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013) (bottomupcs.com)
516 points by Chesco_ on Dec 24, 2016 | 156 comments
59.
VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim (vimwiki.github.io)
515 points by type0 on Dec 12, 2016 | 120 comments
60.
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (nngroup.com)
512 points by hug on Dec 6, 2016 | 325 comments