top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-26

First they came for the Iranians

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167

9 years ago

1000 upvotes – 429 comments

Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy

https://stemcell.usc.edu/2016/09/07/paralyzed-man-regains-use-of-arms-and-hands-after-experimental-stem-cell-therapy-at-keck-hospital-of-usc/

9 years ago

873 upvotes – 174 comments

Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html

9 years ago

859 upvotes – 374 comments

The internals of PostgreSQL

http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

9 years ago

477 upvotes – 53 comments

Mirroring US climate data

http://www.climatemirror.org/

9 years ago

448 upvotes – 162 comments

Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

https://www.runforoffice.org/

9 years ago

445 upvotes – 159 comments

Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to-speed-up-the-web/

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 160 comments

Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

https://github.com/deepsyx/home-automation

9 years ago

★ 3.4k JavaScript MIT
349 upvotes – 90 comments

The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/the-foundation-of-more-secure-web.html

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 164 comments

Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603502/two-infants-treated-with-universal-immune-cells-have-their-cancer-vanish/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 134 comments

Introducing React Navigation for React Native

https://reactnavigation.org/blog/2017/1/Introducing-React-Navigation

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 66 comments

Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-uncovers-grim-correlation-violence-inequality-millennia/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 250 comments

Freeciv WebGL 3D

https://play.freeciv.org/

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 70 comments

Dutch secret service tries to recruit Tor-admin

http://www.burojansen.nl/bvd-aivd/dutch-secret-service-tries-to-recruit-tor-admin/

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 107 comments

Google planning to bring AI and ML tools to Raspberry Pi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38742762

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 97 comments

Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure

https://honeycomb.io/blog/2017/01/instrumentation-the-first-four-things-you-measure/

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues

https://www.realartists.com/blog/ship-20.html

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 105 comments

IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ipv6-update-global-support-spanning-15-regions-multiple-aws-services/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

Stop Checking Email So Often (2015)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/stop-checking-email-so-often.html

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 169 comments

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: Command Line Challenge

https://cmdchallenge.com

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 90 comments

KDE Slimbook

http://kde.slimbook.es/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 146 comments

New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess

https://worldchess.com/2017/01/25/special-report-new-study-finds-performance-enhancing-drugs-for-chess/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 137 comments

Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103456684228891&set=a.529237706231.2034669.4&type=3&theater

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 82 comments

Launch HN: Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17) – AWS for Manufacturing

https://voodoomfg.com/?utm_source=hn

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 59 comments

Stop starting from scratch when you write

http://www.ianharris.com/dont-start-from-scratch/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

A Deep Dive into HandBrake and Video Transcoding

http://robservatory.com/a-deep-dive-into-handbrake-and-video-transcoding/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488795

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 45 comments

A Cheat Sheet on Probability

http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/a-cheat-sheet-on-probability

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 20 comments

Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/26/community-health-initiative-grant/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 143 comments

Proofs are Programs – 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing (2000) [pdf]

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/frege/frege.pdf

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 77 comments

New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Look before you paste from a website to terminal

http://lifepluslinux.blogspot.com/2017/01/look-before-you-paste-from-website-to.html

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

Open-RethinkDB meeting notes #4

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cTqKt1_EBanGoVmYyahdLyDD8dhCa0SdD0CbjbP67f8

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Do you keep a personal journal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492501

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 106 comments

Meet the woman who put 50M stolen articles online (2016)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meet-the-woman-who-put-50-million-stolen-articles-online-so-you-can-read-them-for-free-a6964176.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 59 comments

Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary info, poaching employees

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/26/tesla-sues-ex-autopilot-director-for-taking-proprietary-info-poaching-employees/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 135 comments

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2016/Q4_alphabet_earnings/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 98 comments

EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/eff-asks-massachusetts-high-court-require-clear-limits-allowing-searches-digital

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

Venezuela arrests 4 bitcoin miners as trading highs continue

http://bitcoinist.com/venezuela-arrests-bitcoin-miners/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 43 comments

Facebook Tweaks Its 'Trending Topics' Algorithm to Better Reflect Real News

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/25/511641939/facebook-tweaks-its-trending-topics-algorithm-to-better-reflect-real-news

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 126 comments

The end of the clearfix hack?

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/01/24/the-end-of-the-clearfix-hack/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 78 comments

C++11 FAQ

http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 118 comments

Security Key for safer logins with a touch

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/security-key-for-safer-logins-with-a-touch/10154125089265766

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 101 comments

The Essence of Event-Driven Programming [pdf]

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jpaykin/papers/pkz_CONCUR_2016.pdf

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

What's new in Swift 3.1

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift3-1

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

https://github.com/rodrigogs/easyvpn

9 years ago

★ 518 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
108 upvotes – 60 comments

Information Theory and the Foundation of Life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170126-information-theory-and-the-foundation-of-life/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

What a good commit message looks like (2011)

https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk/commit/b6590150d68df528efd40c889ba6eea476b39873

9 years ago

★ 451 C++ GPL-2.0
96 upvotes – 95 comments

Help: Suicide note on blog

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/01/25/four-children-lose-their-father-a-wife-loses-a-husband/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 94 comments

I Am a Recruiter (a.k.a Spammer) at Amazon

https://the.devway.xyz/i-am-a-recruiter-a-k-a-spammer-at-amazon-6520ea0b031#.4u67smfmh

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 95 comments

The Design of Postgres (1986) [pdf]

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 0 comments

What Chinese students go through to get into top American universities (2016)

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-long-march-from-china-to-the-ivies

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 101 comments

The probability of data loss in large clusters

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2017/01/26/data-loss-in-large-clusters.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Public appeal to backup Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory's FTP repo

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5q4xxe/erik_fichtner_on_twitter_please_wget_m_np/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I will never have a girlfriend (1999)

https://logological.org/girlfriend

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 118 comments

Spin wants to bring dock-less bike sharing to the US

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/spin-wants-to-bring-dock-less-bike-sharing-to-the-us/?

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 108 comments

How to Watch 3D Blu-Ray Movies on the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift

https://www.tchapin.com/how-to-watch-3d-blu-ray-movies-on-the-htc-vive-or-oculus-rift-without-having-to-re-encode-the-movie/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/26/the-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-just-resigned/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

With New Zealand citizenship, Peter Thiel can watch the world burn in peace

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/26/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizen/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments

Airbnb Enters the Land of Profitability

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/airbnb-enters-the-land-of-profitability

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Vegetarian diets are not going to save the planet

https://shift.newco.co/vegetarian-diets-are-not-going-to-save-the-planet-4f50d0c1f8cf

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13493086

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: What frameworks are currently used in a modern web stack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13490731

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 117 comments
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