top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-01-08

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html

9 years ago

753 upvotes – 133 comments

Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)

http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 106 comments

Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/07/poet-i-cant-answer-questions-on-texas-standardized-tests-about-my-own-poems/

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 215 comments

Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 198 comments

Alphabet’s Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-08/alphabet-s-waymo-cuts-cost-of-key-self-driving-sensor-by-90

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 175 comments

The Piston image library is now pure Rust

http://blog.piston.rs/2017/01/08/the-image-library-is-now-pure-rust/

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 125 comments

Uber Movement

https://movement.uber.com/cities

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 134 comments

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)

http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 36 comments

Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-mathematicians-ocean-life-disney-moana.html

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 91 comments

I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-made-my-son-cannabis-cookies-they-changed-his-life/2017/01/06/699b1d20-d1ef-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 279 comments

Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170101-a-new-tomb-for-the-most-dangerous-disaster-site-in-the-world

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 85 comments

Deep Text Correcter

http://atpaino.com/2017/01/03/deep-text-correcter.html

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 66 comments

Why read old philosophy?

https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/why-read-old-philosophy/amp/

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: Use Ansible to Run a “friends and Family” OpenVPN Server on Digital Ocean

https://github.com/robbintt/popup-openvpn

9 years ago

★ 807ShellMIT
206 upvotes – 51 comments

Master web development with over 9000 tricks

https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson/master-web-development-with-these-9-985-weird-tricks-77c71d1d96f3#.pvqsolvp0

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 21 comments

Dgsh – Directed graph shell

http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 51 comments

Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/6/14184094/scientists-predict-stars-colliding

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 48 comments

Braess’ paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 91 comments

Desktop Operating System Market Share

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 131 comments

Think twice before signing subscription to Adobe products

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1372913

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 107 comments
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