top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-16

Life is Short

http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

10 years ago

970 upvotes – 408 comments

Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming with Rust

https://blog.thiago.me/raspberry-pi-bare-metal-programming-with-rust/

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 92 comments

Iceland sentences bankers to prison for their part in the 2008 collapse

http://www.loansafe.org/iceland-sentences-26-corrupt-bankers-to-74-years-in-prison

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 99 comments

Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/middleeast/iran-sanctions-lifted-nuclear-deal.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 235 comments

Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 258 comments

Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop

http://makezine.com/2016/01/15/electronics-that-last-how-i-built-an-heirloom-laptop/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 75 comments

Scalable C – Writing Large-Scale Distributed C

https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/scalable-c/content/preface.html

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 145 comments

Teaching a Semester of D3.js

http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2016/01/teaching-semester-of-d3js.html

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 31 comments

Japan: Tardigrade reproduces after 30 years on ice

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35323237

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 29 comments

Andrei Alexandrescu: Writing Fast Code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7FP0LnmcA

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 24 comments

Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 117 comments

Phishing attack against Lastpass

https://www.seancassidy.me/lostpass.html

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

Flyby anomaly

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

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 21 comments

The Real Problem with Lunch

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/opinion/the-real-problem-with-lunch.html

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 115 comments

What I Learned from Creating a High School Social Network

https://medium.com/@jsrmath/what-i-learned-from-creating-a-high-school-social-network-c37fcd0fb4b0#.na6ea4l99

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7WyhlRetU0

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

GPUs prefer premultiplication

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/gpus-prefer-premultiplication/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

Postmates courier beaten by SFPD while delivering burrito

http://sfist.com/2016/01/14/black_bicyclist_says_he_was_stopped.php

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: IPalyzer – Analyze any IP for location, RDNS, blacklisting

https://ipalyzer.com

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD and Mac OS X

https://github.com/NetBSDfr/sailor

10 years ago

★ 356 Shell
109 upvotes – 30 comments

SVGnest: Efficient packing of irregular shapes with JavaScript

https://github.com/Jack000/SVGnest

10 years ago

★ 2.5k JavaScript MIT
108 upvotes – 21 comments

How to make the Atom editor transparent

https://github.com/transcranial/atom-transparency

10 years ago

★ 471 CSS
97 upvotes – 55 comments

The Heroes of CRISPR

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/why-i-taught-myself-to-procrastinate.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Recognizing Speech from Smartphone Gyroscopes (2014)

https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Hire Literally Anyone

http://arches.io/2016/01/hire-literally-anyone/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

Printing Floating-Point Numbers: A Faster, Always Correct Method [pdf]

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lerner/papers/fp-printing-popl16.pdf

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly

https://mayaposch.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/a-look-at-asm-js-and-the-future-with-webassembly/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

ArcadeRS: A Game Tutorial in Rust

http://jadpole.github.io/arcaders/arcaders-1-0/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

How jumbo jet engines are made [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfomloUg2Gw

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Let’s Start Tracking Misleading Press Releases About Scientific Findings

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/01/lets-track-overhyped-research-press-releases.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Reversal of hair greying following adipose mesenchymal stem cell transplantation

http://www.hoajonline.com/stemcells/2054-717X/2/3

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

My Favorite Public Data Sources

http://www.jenunderwood.com/2016/01/14/my-favorite-public-data-sources/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Project Abacus: Google's plan to kill the password via biometric tracking

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/15/googles-creepy-plan-to-kill-the-password/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Outlier Detection in SQL

https://www.periscopedata.com/blog/outlier-detection-in-sql.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Start up India: Webcast [video]

http://webcast.gov.in/startupindia/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Efficient Amortised and Real-Time Queues in Haskell

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2016/01/efficient-queues/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

ISIS Has a Smartphone App

http://fortune.com/2015/12/10/isis-smartphone-app/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 73 comments

Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On

http://nautil.us/blog/yoda-is-dead-but-star-wars-dubious-lessons-live-on

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 72 comments

Ultimate++: a C++ cross-platform RAD framework

http://www.ultimatepp.org/index.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Why is Azure so expensive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916384

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

The world in 1975 (2007)

http://www.ranprieur.com/misc/1975.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Inside the Eye: Nature's Most Exquisite Creation

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes-text

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Raru: Run as random user

https://github.com/teran-mckinney/raru

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

http://www.gq.com/story/suicide-nurse-mark-drybrough-chatrooms-li-dao?printable=true?mod=e2this

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Nadim Kobeissi on why he left Peerio

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/688343332867694592

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs?

http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bulbs-0111

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

Baidu’s AI Team Releases Key Deep-Learning Code

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/545486/chinas-baidu-releases-its-ai-code/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Learning to Read at Age 41

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/14/learning-read-age-41

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Type safe OpenGL – Converting strings into types in D

https://maikklein.github.io/2015/11/14/Converting-strings-to-types/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

A customizable C++ framework

https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/a-customizable-framework/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Entry Level Positions – 3 Years Experience

https://medium.com/@m_rlons/entry-level-position-3-years-experience-75fa785188cd#.pkyzdzocy

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 52 comments

Don't tell me what my browser can't do

https://www.christianheilmann.com/2016/01/16/dont-tell-me-what-my-browser-cant-do/

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture does our best thinking

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/08/anti-education-on-the-future-of-our-educational-institutions-friedrich-nietzsche-review

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 29 comments
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