Hacker News on 11 December 2016

• Things You Notice When You Quit the News
• Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
• Run Unix processes inside your browser
• Why we chose Vue.js over React
• The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
• Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
• Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field
• Spaced repetition
• uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge
• German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal