top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-06

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-2016-2

10 years ago

Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it

https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe

10 years ago

★ 6.3k Python

iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

10 years ago

Watson for President

http://watson2016.com

10 years ago

PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services

https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-starts-banning-vpn-and-smartdns-services-160205/

10 years ago

Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side

http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/another-vietnam-photography/#TBVXB4fMGkqN

10 years ago

Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance

http://cantrip.org/rust-vs-c++.html

10 years ago

TempleOS V4.02 Released

http://www.templeos.org/TempleOS402.html

10 years ago

So you still don't understand Hindley-Milner? (2013)

http://akgupta.ca/blog/2013/05/14/so-you-still-dont-understand-hindley-milner/

10 years ago

Google shuts down Amazon unionization website

https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2016/02/05/23534490/google-shuts-down-amazon-unionization-website

10 years ago

Why the Assholes Are Winning: Money Trumps All

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.12177/full

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Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science

http://www.nature.com/news/biotech-giant-publishes-failures-to-confirm-high-profile-science-1.19269?WT.mc_id=FBK_NA_1601_NEWSBIOTECHFAILDATA_PORTFOLIO

10 years ago

Sydney's fun police have put out the light of the nightlife

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/05/sydneys-fun-police-have-put-out-the-light-of-the-nightlife-the-citys-a-global-laughing-stock

10 years ago

Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048409

10 years ago

J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN--t9jXQc0

10 years ago

I am a puts debuggerer

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2016/02/05/i-am-a-puts-debuggerer.html

10 years ago

Visual Turing Test

http://turing.deepart.io/

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How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography

http://priceonomics.com/how-a-college-student-used-creative-commons-to/

10 years ago

Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code

https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else

10 years ago

★ 11.6k Shell MIT

“Screw it, I'll make my own” – The story of a new programming language

http://breuleux.net/blog/my-own-language.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: Best curated newsletters?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11046053

10 years ago

Judicial combat between a man and a dog in 1361

http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/oct/8.htm#JUDICIAL%20COMBAT%20BETWEEN%20A%20MAN%20AND%20A%20DOG

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Show HN: What parts of your code are not original

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11047409

10 years ago

Widest Roman Prime

https://blog.soff.es/widest-roman-prime

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Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-plasma-physicist-discusses-wendelstein-x.html

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A medieval alchemical book reveals new secrets

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2016/02/05/a-medieval-alchemical-book-reveals-new-secrets/

10 years ago

Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/science/space/edgar-d-mitchell-sixth-moonwalking-astronaut-dies-at-85.html

10 years ago

Pippo – Web framework in Java

http://www.pippo.ro/

10 years ago

The removal of road markings is to be celebrated. We are safer without them

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/removal-road-markings-safer-fewer-accidents-drivers

10 years ago

Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite (2007)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jun/21/it.guardianweeklytechnologysection

10 years ago

Ask HN: Is it worth starting a SaaS in a niche that already has a clear leader?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049375

10 years ago

'RuneScape' Can't Escape 2007

http://digg.com/2016/old-school-runescape-history

10 years ago

The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/index.php

10 years ago

What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/05/what-happens-to-a-tiny-town-when-walmart-disappears/

10 years ago

Encrypted libraries leak lots of information in Seafile

https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350

10 years ago

★ 14.6k C

Show HN: GrapesJS – Open source tool for building templates easily

http://grapesjs.com/

10 years ago

NASA has released thousands of photos from the Apollo Misson

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive

10 years ago

Knuth 3:16 (2002)

http://www.larry.denenberg.com/Knuth-3-16/

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How Ljubljana Turned Itself into Europe's 'Green Capital'

http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/02/how-ljubljana-turned-itself-into-europes-green-capital/458934/?utm_source=SFFB

10 years ago

Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements

http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements

10 years ago

How to Fix Tech’s H-1B Problem

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/06/how-to-fix-techs-h-1b-problem

10 years ago

The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Money Will Go Home One Day

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/why-startups-should-be-wary-of-tourist-investors

10 years ago

Remember the Milk 2.0

http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/post/138635653573/the-new-remember-the-milk-is-here

10 years ago

90s Cursor Effects

https://github.com/tholman/90s-cursor-effects

10 years ago

★ 3.9k JavaScript

Twitter's rumored algorithmic timeline switch

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2016/02/06/twitters-algorithmic-timeline-switch-is-all-your-own-fault/#44f9e43831b6

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