top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-02

Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

https://github.com/fogleman/ln

10 years ago

★ 3.3k Go MIT
441 upvotes – 56 comments

LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

http://www.gq.com/story/lsd-life-saving-drug

10 years ago

389 upvotes – 224 comments

Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop

https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/aFWWeiybe4P

10 years ago

368 upvotes – 139 comments

Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth

http://ngxpagespeed.com/

10 years ago

308 upvotes – 94 comments

Use Atom to edit in Chrome

https://github.com/tuvistavie/atomic-chrome

10 years ago

★ 914 JavaScript MIT
269 upvotes – 82 comments

Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven Swiftkey for $250M

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/02/microsoft-is-acquiring-londons-ai-driven-swiftkey-for-250m/

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 110 comments

Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=704

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 59 comments

Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-01/bofa-the-oil-crash-is-kicking-off-one-of-the-largest-wealth-transfers-in-human-history

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 221 comments

Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers

http://www.iron.io/blog/2016/01/microcontainers-tiny-portable-containers.html

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 67 comments

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 66 comments

Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code

https://github.com/carols10cents/rustlings

10 years ago

★ 62.6k Rust MIT
198 upvotes – 36 comments

Yahoo ex-employee sues, alleging performance review manipulation, gender bias

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-lawsuit-20160202-story.html

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 143 comments

Graphene optical lens 200 nm thick breaks the diffraction limit

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/latest-news/2016/01/focus-on-results.php

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 54 comments

Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor

http://appsweets.net/wasavi/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 42 comments

Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed

https://medium.com/backchannel/has-deepmind-really-passed-go-adc85e256bec

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

Sandstorm App update: New open-source self-hostable apps

https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-01-22-8-new-open-source-apps

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

The NASA Rocket Countdown Came from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nasa-stole-the-rocket-countdown-from-a-1929-fritz-lang-film-1d569cc0-50ff-4045-b0c9-1f0d72a193db

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Mixed reality outfit Magic Leap nets $793.5M

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/264972/Mixed_reality_outfit_Magic_Leap_nets_7935_million.php

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

Retirement Nomads: Too poor to retire and too young to die

http://graphics.latimes.com/retirement-nomads/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 186 comments

Cheerp 1.2 – C++ to JavaScript: faster than Emscripten with dynamic memory

http://blog.leaningtech.com/2016/02/cheerp-12-c-to-javascript-with-faster.html

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Make journals report clinical trials properly

http://www.nature.com/news/make-journals-report-clinical-trials-properly-1.19280

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Militia Radio Frequencies

https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 105 comments

Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/22908-locust-avenue-speeding/

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 135 comments

New European, U.S. data transfer pact agreed

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-dataprotection-usa-accord-idUSKCN0VB1RN

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Don't Panic: Seeking Points of Agreement on the “Going Dark” Debate

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont-panic/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 78 comments

Tablet shipments decline 10.1% in 2015

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/01/idc-tablet-shipments-decline-10-1-in-2015-leaders-apple-and-samsung-both-lose-market-share/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 149 comments

The many ways of handling TCP RST packets

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-02-01-tcp-rst/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (2006)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too

http://nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html?_r=2&referer=http://marginalrevolution.com/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Implementing the Elm Architecture in Swift

https://medium.com/design-x-code/elmification-of-swift-af14b7f92b30

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Research into ketamine as a treatment for severe depression

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-one-time-party-drug-is-helping-people-with-deep-depression/2016/02/01/d3e73862-b490-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Roam – Global co-living subscription

https://www.roam.co

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 40 comments

Tresor – CPU-only AES implementation resistant to RAM cold-boot attacks (2011)

https://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

The Fed Wants to Test How Banks Would Handle Negative Rates

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/rates-less-than-zero-is-bank-stress-fed-wants-to-test-in-2016

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 168 comments

Tor: The second generation onion router – annotated version

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/tor-the-second-generation-onion-router

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Investigating the overhead cost of compiled ES2015

https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-in-2016

10 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript
83 upvotes – 13 comments

Tell HN: Don't post if you're not actually hiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11019321

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Clojure Survey 2015 Analysis

http://www.danielcompton.net/2016/01/29/clojure-survey-2015

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

D3 and Leaflet maps (2012)

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/leaflet/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Out of a Rare Super Bowl I Recording, a Clash with the N.F.L. Unspools

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/sports/football/super-bowl-i-recording-broadcast-nfl-troy-haupt.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I'm leaving the R community

http://ironholds.org/blog/down-and-out-in-statistical-computing/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018423

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 73 comments

Convert hexadecimal to binary in your head

http://lukerissacher.com/hexquiz

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Shared genetics between cognitive functions and physical and mental health

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2015225a.html

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Men Are Better at Maps Until Women Take This Course

http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/men-are-better-at-maps-until-women-take-this-course

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 58 comments

Gradient-Based Hyperparameter Optimization Through Reversible Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03492

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

A New Look and Feel for Uber

https://newsroom.uber.com/celebrating-cities-a-new-look-and-feel-for-uber/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Phantom Time Hypothesis

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

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments

USB-Dongle Authentication List

http://www.dongleauth.info/

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments

A Reimplementation of NetBSD Using a Microkernel

https://talks.discoverbsd.com/2016/01/31/a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel.html

10 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Conditional instructions in the ARM1 processor, reverse engineered

http://www.righto.com/2016/01/conditional-instructions-in-arm1.html?m=1

10 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Pitfalls of self-guided science (2004)

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/books/8232/8232books.html

10 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

How Intellectuals Create a Public

http://chronicle.com/article/How-Intellectuals-Create-a/234984

10 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments
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