top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-11

Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

http://reachtarunhere.github.io/2016/06/11/Golden-Age-of-MOOCs-is-over-and-why-I-hate-Coursera/

10 years ago

590 upvotes – 266 comments

The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]

http://wstein.org/talks/2016-06-sage-bp/bp.pdf

10 years ago

415 upvotes – 196 comments

Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/9/11898512/multiple-sclerosis-stem-cell-chemo

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 77 comments

AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]

http://a16z.com/2016/06/10/ai-deep-learning-machines/

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 77 comments

My Increasing Frustration with Clojure

http://ashtonkemerling.com/blog/2016/06/11/my-increasing-frustration-with-clojure/

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 233 comments

Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us/laid-off-americans-required-to-zip-lips-on-way-out-grow-bolder.html

10 years ago

248 upvotes – 205 comments

There Have Probably Been Aliens

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/opinion/sunday/yes-there-have-been-aliens.html?mwrsm=Facebook

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 154 comments

We Hired a Blind Coder

https://medium.com/the-momocentral-times/the-day-we-hired-a-blind-coder-9c9d704bb08b#.2p7zlcnr2

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 100 comments

Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/email-address-disclosures-preliminary-report-june-11-2016/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 107 comments

Why not string theory? Because enough is enough

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/06/dear-dr-b-why-not-string-theory.html

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 117 comments

OpenSSL DSA key recovery attack

http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/594

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 17 comments

The Japanese art of not sleeping

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160506-the-japanese-art-of-not-sleeping

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Create instantly shareable native app with a single JSON markup

http://www.jasonclient.org?

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidence from new study

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 103 comments

Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup

http://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2016/06/08/tesla-offered-325-million-salton-sea-startup/84913572/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 100 comments

Traffic Simulation

http://www.traffic-simulation.de

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

Turn your handwriting into a font

http://www.myscriptfont.com/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

A Simple Content-Based Recommendation Engine in Python

http://blog.untrod.com/2016/06/simple-similar-products-recommendation-engine-in-python.html

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 9 comments

Let's Encrypt leaked thousands of email addresses, asks to not post lists

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/email-address-disclosures-preliminary-report-june-11-2016/16867

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 2 comments

Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-beneath-cambodian-jungle

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

How Intel Makes a Chip

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 84 comments

Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11908500/facebook-moments-auto-sync-notice-deletion

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36499750

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 107 comments

Workman Keyboard layout

https://viralintrospection.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/a-different-philosophy-in-designing-keyboard-layouts/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Plan 9? (2001)

http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558822710356&w=2

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

How to build and deploy a simple Facebook Messenger bot with Python and Flask

http://tsaprailis.com/2016/06/02/How-to-build-and-deploy-a-Facebook-Messenger-bot-with-Python-and-Flask-a-tutorial/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

PHD VI: How They Stole Our Drone

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2016/06/phd-vi-how-they-stole-our-drone.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

Counterexample to Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/counterexample-to-eulers-conjecture-on-sums-of-like-powers

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Quebec passes law to regulate Uber

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/uber-law-could-pass-today-1.3628992

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

Convert a Commodore 64 from NTSC to PAL Format

http://biosrhythm.com/?p=1420

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/technology/apple-starts-to-woo-its-app-developers.html?hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 173 comments

Byte-Monkey: Fault injection for the JVM

http://probablyfine.co.uk/2016/05/30/announcing-byte-monkey/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

The Mistrust of Science

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-mistrust-of-science

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments
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