top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-01-26

Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement

https://twitter.com/gavinjoyce/status/691773956144119808

10 years ago

Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-1.html

10 years ago

It’s Time to Open Up the GPU

http://gpuopen.com/welcometogpuopen/

10 years ago

Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/barack-obama-why-we-must-rethink-solitary-confinement/2016/01/25/29a361f2-c384-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html

10 years ago

Fellowship V2

http://blog.ycombinator.com/fellowship-v2

10 years ago

A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together

http://joearms.github.io/2016/01/28/A-Badass-Way-To-Connect-Programs-Together.html

10 years ago

Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-868j-the-society-of-mind-fall-2011/index.htm

10 years ago

Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++

http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/

10 years ago

“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/no-cost-license-plate-readers-are-turning-texas-police-mobile-debt-collectors-and

10 years ago

From Python to Lua: Why We Switched

https://www.distelli.com/blog/using-lua-for-our-most-critical-production-code

10 years ago