top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-14

Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor

http://makezine.com/magazine/hands-on-health-care/

11 years ago

697 upvotes – 144 comments

Io.js 1.0.0

https://iojs.org/?1.0.0

11 years ago

634 upvotes – 186 comments

DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/presenting-freebsd-how-we-made-it-happen/

11 years ago

552 upvotes – 196 comments

Obama calls for municipal broadband

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7546865/obama-municipal-broadband-fcc

11 years ago

520 upvotes – 275 comments

I Owe It All to Community College

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/tom-hanks-on-his-two-years-at-chabot-college.html?_r=0

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 277 comments

NW.js

http://nwjs.io/

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 91 comments

New, more powerful Google Translate app

https://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2015/01/hallo-hola-ola-to-new-more-powerful_14.html

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript

https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib

11 years ago

★ 15.7k JavaScript MIT
305 upvotes – 55 comments

The problem with Angular

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/01/the_problem_wit.html

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 242 comments

Full-fledged FPS in WebGL

http://timeinvariant.github.io/gorescript/play/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 79 comments

A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust

http://arthurtw.github.io/2015/01/12/quick-comparison-nim-vs-rust.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 90 comments

Bitcoin crashes over 25% in 24 hours, under $180

http://bitcoinity.org/markets

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 322 comments

OpenBSD's kernel gets W^X treatment

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142120787308107&w=2

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 41 comments

El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Top at Yosemite

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/sports/el-capitans-dawn-wall-climbers-reach-top.html

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 93 comments

A Brief Overview of Deep Learning

http://yyue.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-brief-overview-of-deep-learning.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/facebook-at-work-ios-android/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 139 comments

Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective

http://blog.jonliv.es/remote-working-3-year-retrospective/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in Cambodia

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/12/canadians_lucky_iron_fish_saves_lives_in_cambodia.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 86 comments

US segment of ISS evacuated due to possible cooling system leak

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/01/14/space-station-update/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

Student StarCraft AI Tournament 2014

http://sscaitournament.com/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Smart pointers for the C programming language

https://github.com/Snaipe/c-smart-pointers

11 years ago

★ 1.7k CMake MIT
126 upvotes – 58 comments

JavaScript Garden

http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 21 comments

HFT in my backyard – V

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/hft-in-my-backyard-v/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Hopefully the last post I'll ever write on Dual EC DRBG

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/01/hopefully-last-post-ill-ever-write-on.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-saviano-my-life-under-armed-guard-gomorrah

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

How the Economic Machine Works (2014)

http://www.economicprinciples.org/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Frameworks are for hacks, libraries for seeds

http://sencjw.com/posts/2015-01-08-the-quick-hack.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

IBM Launches Z13 Mainframe

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/45808.wss

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 97 comments

Misconceptions about Evolution

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Beds and services for homeless youth

http://ysnmn.org

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

The growing irrelevance of MongoDB

http://www.itexto.com.br/devkico/en/?p=60

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 112 comments

The More Fungible Worker

http://unpleasantfacts.com/the-more-fungible-worker

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 173 comments

GoFundMe Tops Kickstarter as World’s #1 Crowdfunding Platform

http://www.gofundme.com/2015/01/13/gofundme-tops-kickstarter-as-worlds-1-crowdfunding-platform/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30588704

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

A pragmatist’s startup spin-down

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/108080554943/a-pragmatists-startup-spin-down

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

Hover.css – A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects

http://ianlunn.github.io/Hover/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

A facelift for the Macintosh

https://curved.de/news/curvedlabs-ein-facelift-fuer-den-macintosh-198570

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

For Sale: Deep, Spacious Roswell Property, Once Occupied by a Missile

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/us/roswell-new-mexico-missile-silo-for-sale.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

YC Demographics

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-demographics

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

How private armies will remake modern warfare

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21638096-how-private-armies-will-remake-modern-warfare-return-hired-gun?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/returnofthehiredgun

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 64 comments

Recreating “Portugal cakes” from 1730

https://rarecooking.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/potingallportugal-cakes/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-comparative-introduction-to-freebsd-for-linux-users

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

China Plans to Strip Mine the Moon for Rare Helium-3

http://www.immortal.org/4376/china-plans-strip-mine-moon-rare-helium-3/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Machine learning for fraud detection

https://stripe.com/blog/fraud-reporting

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8887545

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

Kevin Rose Leaves Google Ventures

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/kevin-rose-leaves-google-ventures-to-work-full-time-on-his-startup-north/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Peter Thiel’s advice on startups

https://medium.com/@paulmillr/zero-to-one-summary-8dbda22e1559

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Goats fighting America's plant invasion

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30583512

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Mirage OS 2014 review: IPv6, TLS, Irmin, Jitsu and community growth

http://openmirage.org/blog/2014-in-review

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Soylent’s Next Chapter

http://blog.soylent.me/post/108074810737/soylents-next-chapter

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 143 comments

Spoofers Tricked High-Speed Traders by Hitting Keys Fast

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-13/spoofers-tricked-highspeed-traders-by-hitting-keys-fast

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 86 comments

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2012)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Better-Angels-of-Our-Nature

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Cirqoid – printed circuit board prototyping machine

http://cirqoid.com/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple Pay Data – Faster Purchases, Higher Conversions and Surprises

https://www.merchbar.com/blog/2015/01/14/apple-pay-data-faster-purchases-higher-conversions-surprises/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

Twisted String Actuators: Surprisingly Simple, Cheap, and High Gear Ratio

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2015/01/13/twisted-string-actuators-surprisingly-simple-cheap-and-high-gear-ratio

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Policy for Growth and Innovation

http://blog.samaltman.com/policy-for-growth-and-innovation

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 70 comments

Joe Hutto Accepted by Wild Mule Deer

http://casperjournal.com/sports/article_77dab141-b962-5443-8bc9-a03685b00c11.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

My Perspective on Go

http://zhen.org/blog/golang-from-a-non-programmers-perspective/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

Write Emacs extensions in Haskell

https://github.com/knupfer/haskell-emacs

11 years ago

★ 390 Haskell
50 upvotes – 14 comments

Object.create history and memory leaks

http://ferrante.pl/frontend/javascript/objectcreate-history-and-memory-leaks/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments
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