top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-08

How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire

http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234

11 years ago

599 upvotes – 328 comments

Scroll Slow. Have Fun

http://www.scrollslowhavefun.com/

11 years ago

548 upvotes – 141 comments

Dirty Coding Tricks

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php?print=1

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 88 comments

In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even More Rights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/wake-charlie-hebdo-attack-lets-not-sacrifice-even-more-rights

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 171 comments

Samsung Unveils SSD Delivering Speeds of Over 2 GB/s

http://techgage.com/news/samsung-unveils-first-pcie-3-0-x4-based-m-2-ssd-delivering-speeds-of-over-2gbs/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 112 comments

Whitehouse response to Aaron Swartz petition

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 106 comments

Farm 432

http://www.livinstudio.com/farm432/

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 148 comments

Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 123 comments

Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY&=

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 158 comments

Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 62 comments

An NES emulator written in Go

https://github.com/nwidger/nintengo

11 years ago

★ 1.2k Go GPL-2.0
187 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Save your side project

http://sideprojects.assembly.com

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 34 comments

Redstone Word Processor in Minecraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ULtNYRCbg

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 28 comments

New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail

http://www.gereports.com/post/107344100845/body-of-knowledge-new-machine-can-see-bones

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 53 comments

Hotel Wi-Fi blocking: Marriott is bad

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/01/hotel-wi-fi-blocking

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

Engineer Anti-Patterns

http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2012/08/14/engineer-anti-patterns/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 72 comments

Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-07/google-loses-most-u-s-search-share-since-2009-while-yahoo-gains.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 155 comments

Hacked emails reveal China’s Internet propaganda machine

http://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 63 comments

The Growth of Administrative Staff in Universities

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/01/booming-university-administrations/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OaatvGhEAq7VseQ9kkavxKNAfepWy2yhPUBs96FGV28/edit

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/08/cannabis-investor-peter-theil-paypal-founder

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

Most MS Patients Who Got Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/ms-patients-who-received-stem-cell-transplants-still-in-remission-010715

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Instagram Worked

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-instagram-worked-45dbfeaa37c8

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments

FCC chairman tips his hand on net neutrality

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-fcc-chairman-wheeler-ces-net-neutrality-title-ii-20150107-story.html?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=515009

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

Someone else had your idea first

http://www.aaronkharris.com/someone-else-had-your-idea-first

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Notes on Red Star OS 3.0

http://richardg867.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/notes-on-red-star-os-3-0/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

Amazon vs. Jet.com

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-07/amazon-vs-dot-jet-dot-com-marc-lore-aims-to-beat-bezos

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

The Invasion of America: New Visualizations of Native American Dispossession

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/americans-must-not-forget-their-history-of-dispossession/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 73 comments

Applying NASA coding standards to JavaScript

http://pixelscommander.com/en/javascript/nasa-coding-standarts-for-javascript-performance/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Blood Work: Scientists Uncover Surprising New Tools to Rejuvenate the Brain

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/01/122211/blood-work-scientists-uncover-surprising-new-tools-rejuvenate-brain

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

The Smalltalk Revolution

https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-smalltalk-revolution-ee245c281f51

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (1994)

https://3drealms.com/news/3d-realms-vault-1994-design-tips-tom-hall-part-1/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsVsUvx8ieo

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the General Public

http://www.simonowens.net/how-reddit-created-the-worlds-largest-dialogue-between-scientists-and-the-general-public/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

What was the first personal computer? (1999)

http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Building a Recommendation Engine

http://blog.assembly.com/Building-a-Recommendation-Engine/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Starvation Based Chemotherapy: A Novel Approach for Cancer Treatment [pdf]

http://www.omjournal.org/images/582_M_Deatials_Pdf_.pdf

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 51 comments

Intel Rolls 14nm Broadwell in Vegas

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1325057

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

Twitter’s new R package for anomaly detection

http://www.r-bloggers.com/twitters-new-r-package-for-anomaly-detection/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

The Nit Programming Language

http://nitlanguage.org/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aaron Swartz?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856372

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 62 comments

Reversible USB Type C connector and 10 gigabit USB 3.1 are here

http://www.pcgamer.com/reversible-usb-type-c-connector-and-10-gigabit-usb-31-are-here/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

2014 CSS Report: Examining how CSS is being used in the wild

http://reports.quickleft.com/css

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 21 comments

Terminal game to test Git skills

https://github.com/hgarc014/git-game

11 years ago

★ 3.1k GPL-2.0
54 upvotes – 52 comments

Freesound: A collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds

http://freesound.org/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Computers Conquer Heads-Up Limit Hold'em

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/computers-conquer-texas-holdem-poker-for-first-time

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 60 comments

Quantum hard drive breakthrough

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-quantum-hard-breakthrough.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

1100-line Perl emulator for BBN-Lisp runs original Eliza program

http://my.umbc.edu/news/48895

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Keeping the Pirates at Bay – Copy and Crack Protection (2001)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pirates_at_bay.php

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 58 comments

Super-insulated clothing could eliminate need for indoor heating

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-super-insulated-indoor.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Sell, open-source, or abandon a $10k/year Mac app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858018

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 59 comments

What Killed Straight Pool? (2005)

http://www.billiardsdigest.com/current_issue/aug_05/index.php

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 37 comments

Integrated Circuit design for the IoT

https://blog.synflow.com/integrated-circuit-design-for-the-internet-of-things-iot/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 28 comments

A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is in the U.S

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21638140-gun-now-more-likely-kill-you-car-bangers-v-bullets

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 149 comments
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