top 50% 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

Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)

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

9 years ago

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

Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)

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

9 years ago

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

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

Uber Movement

https://movement.uber.com/cities

9 years ago

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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

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

Deep Text Correcter

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

9 years ago

Why read old philosophy?

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

★ 807 Shell MIT

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

Dgsh – Directed graph shell

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

9 years ago

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

Desktop Operating System Market Share

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

9 years ago

Braess’ paradox

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

9 years ago

Think twice before signing subscription to Adobe products

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

9 years ago

Inside the 74181 ALU chip

http://www.righto.com/2017/01/die-photos-and-reverse-engineering.html

9 years ago

Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (2014)

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/functional-programming-section/metacircular-adventures-in-functional-abstraction-challenging-clojure-in-common-lisp/

9 years ago

Alan Kay – The center of “Why”? (2004) [pdf]

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004002_center.pdf

9 years ago

Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242192-dell-unveils-new-8k-32-inch-monitor-ces-2017-shipping-year

9 years ago

PhantomJS 2.5.0 beta

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/phantomjs/AefOuwkgBh0

9 years ago

First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exclusively in China

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38546676

9 years ago

What science says about naming in programming

http://www.felienne.com/archives/5452

9 years ago

Plan to restrict highly skilled foreign workers could be a boon for India

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/trump-and-sessions-plan-to-restrict-highly-skilled-foreign-workers-hyderabad-says-bring-it-on/2017/01/08/8701e0ca-d2c0-11e6-aa0c-f196d8ef0650_story.html

9 years ago

Moral panic over fake news hides the real enemy – the digital giants

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/08/blaming-fake-news-not-the-answer-democracy-crisis

9 years ago

How can existentialist philosophy help with the anxiety and dread of fatherhood?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-childless-fathers-of-existentialism-teach-real-dads

9 years ago

Bootstrapping a slightly more secure laptop [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8314-bootstraping_a_slightly_more_secure_laptop

9 years ago

Twitter OAuth Authentication with Elixir and Phoenix

http://headynation.com/twitter-oauth-elixir-phoenix/

9 years ago

GCC code generation for C++ Weekly Ep 43 example

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/01/gcc-code-generation-for-c-weekly-ep-43.html

9 years ago

Cryptanalysis with Reasoning Systems

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/reasoning-systems/gchq-2015-crypto-puzzle-full-analysis/

9 years ago

The Chernobyl Story in pictures

http://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

9 years ago

You can't disable Google AMP

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!topic/webmasters/8ogdv04Cm-k

9 years ago

How to Setup an OpenVPN Server on Digital Ocean

https://github.com/git-sgmoore/OpenVPN_Ipsec_L2tp_server_on_Digital_Ocean

9 years ago

How the brain perceives rhythm

https://news.mit.edu/2017/how-brain-perceives-rhythm-1205

9 years ago

The Zcash Anonymous Cryptocurrency [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8330-the_zcash_anonymous_cryptocurrency

9 years ago

Using TensorFlow in Windows with a GPU

http://www.heatonresearch.com/2017/01/01/tensorflow-windows-gpu.html

9 years ago

Most of the Google Hangouts API is being killed on April 25th

https://www.xda-developers.com/most-of-the-google-hangouts-api-is-being-killed-on-april-25th/

9 years ago

Embedded systems that can be sustained up to 60 years

https://www.cip-project.org/blog/2016/10/13/civil-infrastructure-platform-announces-first-super-long-term-support-kernel-at-embedded-linux-conference-europe

9 years ago

Memory Deduplication: The Curse that Keeps on Giving [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8022-memory_deduplication_the_curse_that_keeps_on_giving

9 years ago