top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-10

How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-i-f-ed-up-in-ycombinator-35a19e7ace68?hn=1

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 125 comments

Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 62 comments

Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans

http://www.propublica.org/article/judge-orders-nypd-to-release-records-on-x-ray-vans

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 72 comments

WebGL Water Simulator

http://www.madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 72 comments

The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf]

http://littleosbook.github.io/book.pdf

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 18 comments

A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords

https://www.qwertycards.com

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 105 comments

Chilling Effects removes itself from search engines

http://torrentfreak.com/chilling-effects-dmca-archive-censors-itself-150110/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 27 comments

Ori File System

http://ori.scs.stanford.edu/#

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

An open letter to Richard M. Stallman

http://elizabeths-blargh.blogspot.com/2015/01/an-open-letter-to-richard-m-stallman.html

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 170 comments

My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

http://johannhari.com/2008/05/06/my-experiment-with-smart-drugs/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 128 comments

Decentralize All the Things

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/decentralize-all-the-things/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: How to get started with paying side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867035

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Io language

http://iolanguage.org/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

The Cryptographic Doom Principle

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/?

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture

http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/the-hit-book-that-came-from-mars-rd

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

Verizon has no excuse for its planned cloud outage

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2865815/cloud-computing/verizon-has-no-excuse-for-planned-cloud-outage.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos

http://kinja.roadandtrack.com/why-ferrari-engineers-dont-like-turbos-1678575660

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 93 comments

Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/09/hal-mother-and-father/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Bond – An extensible framework for working with schematized data

https://microsoft.github.io/bond/manual/bond_cs.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

The Strange Life of 'Lord' Timothy Dexter

http://priceonomics.com/the-strange-life-of-lord-timothy-dexter/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Flow-based Programming

http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

SpaceX CRS-5 Launch

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/3665355

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

GitHub's pages targeted by porn industry DMCA request to Google

https://gist.github.com/Psycojoker/69c00d0d11f26a46ac93

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

Connecting an external video card to a notebook

http://lab501.net/egpu-connecting-external-video-card-notebook-diy-implementation/all/1/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Facebook Page Unliker

http://pageunliker.com

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Finding gravitational n-body choreographies

http://gminton.org/#choreo

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

A 1980 Teenager's View of Social Media

https://medium.com/@brianstorms/a-1980-teenagers-view-of-social-media-eaf8a5fdbf6c

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

What is C4 rice?

http://c4rice.irri.org/index.php/component/content/article/19-about/56-what-is-c4-rice

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

An Introduction to Lifecycle Email

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/lifecycle_emails_3

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

A JIT for grepping: jrep and rejit (2014)

https://lwn.net/Articles/589009/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

Thoughts on replacement languages

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/thoughts-on-replacement-languages

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

The Best Bike Lock

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-bike-lock/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 60 comments

The Magic SysRq key

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Hacker News Daily

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6AL7Walc4&feature=share

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

0x40 Assembly Riddles

http://xchg.xorpd.net

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments
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