top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-03

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uosc-fts060214.php

12 years ago

415 upvotes – 190 comments

Slaves endure 'a living hell' on remote South Korean islands

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/korea/slaves-endure-a-living-hell-on-remote-south-korean-islands-1.322052

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 100 comments

Google is shutting down OpenID 2.0

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID#shutdown-timetable

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 77 comments

Make Your Own Programming Language

http://mattias-.github.io/2015-01-03/DIY-Make-Your-Own-Programming-language/

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 78 comments

HSTS Super Cookies

http://www.radicalresearch.co.uk/lab/hstssupercookies/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 53 comments

Automatic REST API for Any Postgres Database

https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest

12 years ago

★ 27k Haskell MIT
197 upvotes – 68 comments

Freedom in your computer and in the net [video]

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6123_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412291130_-_freedom_in_your_computer_and_in_the_net_-_richard_stallman.html#video

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 58 comments

Broken cap tables

https://medium.com/@henrysward/broken-cap-tables-bbf84574a76a

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 31 comments

The Science and Art of Practicing

http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20146/15906/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments

The Pirate Bay is counting down

http://178.175.135.122/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 110 comments

“PSD is not a good format”

https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoader.m?r=f16763d221dfca6253983824b470adf553a19e06#108

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Why you should not use AngularJs

https://medium.com/@mnemon1ck/why-you-should-not-use-angularjs-1df5ddf6fc99

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Sitekite – Imgur for Websites

http://sitekite.com/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 53 comments

Checklist of Rationality Habits

http://rationality.org/checklist/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

Supply and Demand, Labor and Visas

https://medium.com/@reppep/paul-graham-appears-confused-about-supply-and-demand-labor-and-visas-and-great-programmers-d1d4854bc928?hn=1

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 93 comments

Whatever Happened to Overtime?

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Crapify, a proxy for simulating slow, spotty HTTP connections

https://www.npmjs.com/package/crapify

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

C++ Filesystem Technical Specification approved by ISO

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/256220

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Dying in the E.R., and on TV Without His Family’s Consent

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/nyregion/dying-in-the-er-and-on-tv-without-his-familys-consent.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns (2013)

http://talks.golang.org/2013/advconc.slide#1

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle (2014)

http://crosscut.com/2014/12/29/business/123222/google-fiber-never-come-seattle-broadband-internet/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Elements of Chip Music (2011)

http://www.linusakesson.net/music/elements/index.php

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments

Visual C++ 2015 Brings Modern C++ to the Windows API

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn879357.aspx

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

The Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter

http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Do elite software developers exist?

http://ericsink.com/entries/sports.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 60 comments

Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

The Art World’s Patron Satan

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/the-art-worlds-patron-satan.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

Pandas pivot table explained

http://pbpython.com/pandas-pivot-table-explained.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Anthropomorphism Gone Wrong: OOP

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/anthropomorphism-and-oop

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster (2012)

http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/blog/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

On quadratic voting and politics as education

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/my-thoughts-on-quadratic-voting-and-politics-as-education.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: PyScribe – A Python library to make print debugging more efficient

https://github.com/alixander/pyscribe

12 years ago

★ 375 Python MIT
53 upvotes – 18 comments

The Admiral of the Atom

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0102rc.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Rival YouTube

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/02/details-unveiled-for-twitters-native-video-player-to-rival-youtube/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech

http://fortune.com/2014/12/29/disney-ceo-bob-iger-empire-of-tech

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas

http://capnmidnight.github.io/Primrose/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

'Billionaires' Book Review: Money Can't Buy Happiness

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120092/billionaires-book-review-money-cant-buy-happiness

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Branch-free FizzBuzz in Assembly

http://pepijndevos.nl/2015/01/03/branch-free-fizzbuzz-in-assembly.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 43 comments

How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean?

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533871/could-passenger-planes-be-tracked-more-closely/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 38 comments
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