top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-30

OS X Command Line Utilities

http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/?x

11 years ago

517 upvotes – 202 comments

Oliver Sacks has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 37 comments

BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmw-all-models-electric-within-decade-20150629-00597

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 292 comments

How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205/?single_page=true

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 125 comments

The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1983)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v05/n09/oliver-sacks/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143485

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2015/08/examining-core-memory-module-inside.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycling-infrastructure/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/how-widely-used-are-security-based-http-response-headers/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Frederick Forsyth reveals MI6 spying past

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34101822

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

http://tubenearyou.com

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 79 comments

A neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/30/marc-lewis-the-neuroscientist-who-believes-addiction-is-not-a-disease

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 89 comments

Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/30/windows-10-spying-on-windows-7-and-windows-8/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Thinking too much: self-generated thought as the engine of neuroticism

http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(15)00154-0

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (2014)

http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 87 comments

Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/opinion/diet-advice-that-ignores-hunger.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 161 comments

The Solar Sunflower

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/the-solar-sunflower-harnessing-the-power-of-5000-suns/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Caching Overview

https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

The JavaScript Misdirection Contest

http://misdirect.ion.land/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

McLaren F1 Tech Applied to Other Industries

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/mclaren-applied-technologies-f1/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Finger Binary

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

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 2

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SysCall/syscall-2.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
70 upvotes – 9 comments

Polyfills as a Service

http://polyfills.io/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142044

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 56 comments

Gun – “Self-hosted Firebase”

http://gun.js.org/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Can we ever really know another person?

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/ingenious-nicholas-epley

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

DRDoS, UDP-Based protocols and BitTorrent

http://engineering.bittorrent.com/2015/08/27/drdos-udp-based-protocols-and-bittorrent/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

The Sorry State of Convenient IPC (2014)

http://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/easyipc

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Scratch is probably the answer

http://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-out-scratch-is-probably-the-answer

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Tokyo vs. the Bay Area

https://medium.com/@quanza/tokyo-vs-the-bay-area-db3d1523c3c4

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments

What happens if you take the Fifth in a civil case?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/28/what-happens-if-you-take-the-fifth-in-a-civil-case/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Tests' Influence on Design

https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/Tests%27-Influence-on-Design

11 years ago

★ 1.1k
57 upvotes – 13 comments

Ten years later, the story of Suck.com (2005)

http://www.keepgoing.org/issue20_giant/the_big_fish.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/subatomic-particles-appear-defy-standard-100950001.html#prEdvzd

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

John Conway's Life in Games

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150828-john-conway-a-life-in-games

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Quantum ‘spookiness’ passes toughest test yet

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-spookiness-passes-toughest-test-yet-1.18255?WT.mc_id=SFB_NNEWS_1508_RHBox

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

N8VEM – Homebrew Computing Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N8VEM

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

WebRTC in Safari?

http://webrtcbydralex.com/index.php/2015/08/29/webrtc-in-safari/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments

To See and Not See by Oliver Sacks (1993) [pdf]

http://www.willamette.edu/~mstewart/whatdoesitmean2see.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments
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