top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-28

Time to Take a Stand

http://blog.samaltman.com/time-to-take-a-stand

9 years ago

1131 upvotes – 992 comments

Box Breathing

http://quietkit.com/box-breathing/

9 years ago

625 upvotes – 127 comments

Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/bring-niki-mossafer-rahmati-current-mit-student-iran-back-us

9 years ago

599 upvotes – 359 comments

My Next Mac Mini

https://rustyshelf.org/2017/01/07/my-next-mac-mini/

9 years ago

426 upvotes – 346 comments

Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/source-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-killed-berkeley-couple/

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 210 comments

Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo?utm=hn

9 years ago

★ 3k Elixir MIT
403 upvotes – 107 comments

Standing up for what's right

https://facebook.com/traviskal/posts/1331814113506421

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 318 comments

Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo

http://www.driverless.id/news/video-breakdown-gms-unicorn-cruise-shows-off-level-4-skills-sf-passing-uber-maybe-waymo-0176031/

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 143 comments

Ruby terminal apps toolkit

http://piotrmurach.github.io/tty/

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13506412

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 172 comments

Forth: The Hacker’s Language

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/27/forth-the-hackers-language/

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 108 comments

Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uoc--sun012617.php

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 69 comments

Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-28/google-recalls-some-staff-to-u-s-after-trump-immigration-order

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 199 comments

Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/microplastics-fish-shellfish-1.3954947

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 61 comments

Resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists

https://github.com/monostable/awesome-electronics

9 years ago

★ 7.6k CC0-1.0
183 upvotes – 31 comments

Kids can't use computers (2013)

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 129 comments

'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/shimmers-criminal-chip-card-reader-fraud-1.3953438

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 86 comments

Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hackers-hit-dc-police-closed-circuit-camera-network-city-officials-disclose/2017/01/27/d285a4a4-e4f5-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 32 comments

Seattle Is Opening First in U.S. “Safe Injection Facility” for Heroin Addicts

https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/safe-injection-space-heroin

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 180 comments

How Mail.Ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 To 32 PB

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/01/reducing-email-storage-mailru/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

After a century failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14371450/indus-valley-civilization-ancient-seals-symbols-language-algorithms-ai

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 27 comments

Shutting down FTP services

https://kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Tutorial on Deep Learning

https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/tutorial-deep-learning

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 8 comments

Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

https://www.tarsnap.com/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ

https://github.com/asrp/pydb

9 years ago

★ 276 Python
130 upvotes – 31 comments

Does Not Work

http://importblogkit.com/2015/07/does-not-work/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

Dopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/foundation-news/scgb-news/dopamine-cells-influence-our-perception-of-time/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Pull request review mistakes

https://blog.scottnonnenberg.com/top-ten-pull-request-review-mistakes/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-uber-airbnb-99-billion-idea/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Scientists Find Brain Hormone That Triggers Fat Burning

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2017/20170127srinivasan.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/26/bibliomania-the-strange-history-of-compulsive-book-buying

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13800

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38767941

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 166 comments

MEGA source code

https://github.com/meganz

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four years (2016)

https://medium.com/@tiffanyqi/a-college-students-individual-analysis-of-productivity-of-four-years-e51e5ec3af6

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments
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