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December 2016 Archive
121.
A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing (newyorker.com)
406 points by anigbrowl on Dec 26, 2016 | 172 comments
122.
Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes (businessinsider.com)
405 points by kevcampb on Dec 13, 2016 | 236 comments
123.
Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
402 points by fapi1974 on Dec 12, 2016 | 273 comments
124.
Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 (kalzumeus.com)
402 points by mkeeter on Dec 30, 2016 | 249 comments
125.
Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac (techcrunch.com)
400 points by tambourine_man on Dec 20, 2016 | 607 comments
126.
Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business (arstechnica.com)
400 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2016 | 182 comments
127.
UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power (washington.edu)
397 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2016 | 67 comments
128.
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nytimes.com)
395 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 22, 2016 | 228 comments
129.
UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data (liberty-human-rights.org.uk)
394 points by NiallIain on Dec 21, 2016 | 105 comments
130.
De-Googleify Internet (degooglisons-internet.org)
391 points by vinceleo on Dec 9, 2016 | 255 comments
131.
Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54 (prerender.cloud)
385 points by jotto on Dec 3, 2016 | 217 comments
132.
Gimli Glider (en.wikipedia.org)
385 points by numlocked on Dec 18, 2016 | 198 comments
133.
Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?
385 points by mkrecny on Dec 12, 2016 | 195 comments
134.
Things I learnt making a fast website (hackernoon.com)
385 points by inian on Dec 23, 2016 | 108 comments
135.
How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage (discord.engineering)
382 points by Sikul on Dec 12, 2016 | 161 comments
136.
Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox (github.com)
381 points by luisrudge on Dec 21, 2016 | 217 comments
137.
Write a Shell in C (2015) (brennan.io)
379 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2016 | 68 comments
138.
Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2 (ml.berkeley.edu)
378 points by llazzaro on Dec 28, 2016 | 36 comments
139.
Why we chose Vue.js over React (pixeljets.com)
377 points by jetter on Dec 11, 2016 | 249 comments
140.
Four years with Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)
376 points by steveklabnik on Dec 21, 2016 | 188 comments
141.
A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X (trustwave.com)
373 points by finid on Dec 13, 2016 | 107 comments
142.
Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible with News (mondaynote.com)
369 points by drallison on Dec 5, 2016 | 229 comments
143.
The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (bbsdocumentary.com)
365 points by sanimal on Dec 11, 2016 | 122 comments
144.
Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (medium.com)
365 points by nafizh on Dec 19, 2016 | 101 comments
145.
How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities (hub.zhovner.com)
364 points by atomlib on Dec 21, 2016 | 115 comments
146.
One Way to Improve Your Coding (changelog.com)
362 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2016 | 116 comments
147.
What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? (nautil.us)
362 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2016 | 68 comments
148.
Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab (deepmind.com)
362 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 5, 2016 | 29 comments
149.
I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (snellman.net)
361 points by b3h3moth on Dec 14, 2016 | 167 comments
150.
Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? (blog.triplebyte.com)
359 points by runesoerensen on Dec 14, 2016 | 503 comments