top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-11

A global movement to ban urban billboards

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards

11 years ago

399 upvotes – 192 comments

The White Man in That Photo

http://griotmag.com/en/white-man-in-that-photo/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 96 comments

Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers

http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-programmers

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 40 comments

The future of UI is text

http://partyline.rocks/blog/futureofui/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 164 comments

Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 56 comments

Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots

http://usuncut.com/news/edit-complete-hw-stephen-hawking-says-really-scared-capitalism-not-robots/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 154 comments

Urban activists set out to sue San Francisco’s suburbs

http://grist.org/cities/urban-activists-set-out-to-sue-san-franciscos-suburbs/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 137 comments

An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/01/illustrated-account-great-maple-syrup-heist/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 142 comments

What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/what-really-keeps-women-out-of-tech.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 418 comments

Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/berlin-anti-ttip-trade-deal-rally-hundreds-thousands-protesters

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

Twitter's Moment

https://stratechery.com/2015/twitters-moment/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

The pace of major breakthroughs has declined

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2015/09/you-call-this-progress/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 127 comments

The ‘Oh, Shit’ Moment When Growth Stops

http://a16z.com/2015/09/30/what-to-do-if-growth-stops/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit score

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28314-inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 50 comments

Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/will-you-ever-be-able-to-upload-your-brain.html?_r=0

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 154 comments

Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

http://cee.lse.ac.uk/pubs/abstract.asp?index=4606

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 109 comments

A Culture Against Dropouts, Deviants and Troubled Young Adults

https://medium.com/@levlinds/a-culture-against-dropouts-deviants-troubled-young-adults-a-mcgill-dropout-s-perspective-d3b201cfcbd2

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 44 comments

Kiddicraft, the Company Lego Ripped Off to Make Plastic Bricks (2014)

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/02/06/kiddicraft-the-company-lego-ripped-off-to-make-plastic-bricks

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

How a Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs by a Quarter

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/13/how-this-battery-cut-microsoft-datacenter-costs-by-a-quarter/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

The Great Raft on the Red River

https://www.invasiveswatch.org/site/GreatRaft/History.aspx

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370320

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 88 comments

In California, Electric Cars Outpace Plugs, and Sparks Fly

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/science/in-california-electric-cars-outpace-plugs-and-sparks-fly.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 98 comments

Plumbum: A lazy, constant-memory streaming data Rust library

https://srijs.github.io/rust-plumbum/plumbum/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (1976)

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_910.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

A Student Loan System Stacked Against the Borrower

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/business/a-student-loan-system-stacked-against-the-borrower.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

From SimCity to SimCity: The history of city-building games

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/from-simcity-to-well-simcity-the-history-of-city-building-games/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers Say “Usually Not” [pdf]

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2015083pap.pdf

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992

https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers&tab=about

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

The Age of Infection

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/30/the-age-of-infection-antibiotics-microbes-germ-ichip/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

A $200M Shell Game in Seychelles

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/10/a-billion-dollar-shell-game-in-seychelles.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Applications of Graph Theory (2007)

http://www.dharwadker.org/pirzada/applications/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Is Diet-Induced Alzheimer’s Disease Type 3 Diabetes?

http://sage.buckinstitute.org/food-for-thought/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Tacit, a CSS Framework Without Classes

https://github.com/yegor256/tacit?oct

11 years ago

★ 1.8k HTML MIT
56 upvotes – 14 comments

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/10/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-armed-jews-vs-nazis/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Resources for learning manual software testing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368067

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Chromium/Blink – Intent to Implement: Experimental Framework

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/experimentation-dev/GsPtuFt8XqA

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager (1996) [pdf]

http://www.khoslaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/Good_Product_Manager_Bad_Product_Manager_KV.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Curtain Antenna

http://www.antenna.be/hr.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Superscript: South Korea celebrates an ingenious writing system

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21672358-country-celebrates-ingenious-writing-system-superscript?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/Superscript

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

A close look at an operating botnet

http://conorpp.com/blog/a-close-look-at-an-operating-botnet/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-corporate-friendly-world-of-the-t-p-p

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage

http://stevecheney.com/on-apples-incredible-platform-advantage/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 35 comments

Run your own dnsmasq in tandem with libvirtd and NetworkManager

http://blog.grobinson.net/2015/10/11/run-your-own-dnsmasq-in-tandem-with-libvirtd-and-networkmanager/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

The oil bust is exposing weaknesses in the Norwegian model

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21672206-now-easy-times-are-over-norway-must-rediscover-its-viking-spirit-norwegian-blues

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 47 comments

A former mentor recalls the early career of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/254169/A_former_mentor_recalls_the_early_career_of_Satoru_Iwata.php

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else

https://hbr.org/2015/08/productivity-is-soaring-at-top-firms-and-sluggish-everywhere-else

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 17 comments

Sculpin – PHP Static Site Generator

https://sculpin.io

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/33180-wikileaks-reveals-how-the-us-aggressively-pursued-regime-change-in-syria-igniting-a-bloodbath

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments
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