top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-02

How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

http://www.freerangekids.com/how-children-lost-the-right-to-roam-in-just-4-generations/

9 years ago

556 upvotes – 520 comments

To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170202-math-and-the-best-life-francis-su-interview/

9 years ago

538 upvotes – 231 comments

John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1913546895546485&id=100006735798590

9 years ago

505 upvotes – 316 comments

Snap Inc. S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517029199/d270216ds1.htm

9 years ago

465 upvotes – 311 comments

Announcing Rust 1.15

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/02/Rust-1.15.html

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 90 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.9

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_9

9 years ago

451 upvotes – 293 comments

Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13550492

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 158 comments

Computer Science Education

https://www.google.com/edu/cs/index.html

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 234 comments

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence/

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 89 comments

St – A simple terminal implementation for X

http://st.suckless.org/

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 217 comments

Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/lychee-identified-as-cause-for-mystery-indian-childhood-illness/8233964

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 82 comments

Online migrations at scale

https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 56 comments

Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems

http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 18 comments

How to use Deep Learning when you have Limited Data

https://medium.com/nanonets/nanonets-how-to-use-deep-learning-when-you-have-limited-data-f68c0b512cab#.sv478elrs

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 50 comments

Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool

http://everycircuit.com/

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 58 comments

‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in the eye of the beholder

https://blog.feabhas.com/2017/02/abusing-c-switch-statement-beauty-eye-beholder/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 147 comments

Stop Disabling SELinux: A Real-World Guide

https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/stop-disabling-selinux:-a-real-world-guide/

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 139 comments

JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

http://jsmpeg.com/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

https://commitprint.com/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 76 comments

How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Dominance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-immigration-uncertainty-threatens-americas-tech-dominance-1486031582

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 421 comments

Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia Quietly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-02/how-do-israel-s-tech-firms-do-business-in-saudi-arabia-very-quietly

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 137 comments

From PS4 to 1.44 MB Floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS [video]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/275482/From_PS4_to_144_MB_floppy_Porting_Retro_City_Rampage_to_MSDOS.php

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 25 comments

Circuit building: stop using antique parts (2014)

http://sensitiveresearch.com/elec/DoNotTIP/index.html

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 165 comments

Computer Scientists’ Trivia

https://keon.io/cs/computer-scientists-trivia/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 72 comments

Introducing PureScript Erlang back end

http://nwolverson.uk/devlog/2016/08/01/introducing-purescript-erlang.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 31 comments

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 16 comments

The woes of Windows 10

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21715831-why-so-many-pc-users-are-refusing-upgrade-windows-10-woes-windows-10

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 464 comments

How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability

http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/electrifying-insights-how-automakers-can-drive-electrified-vehicle-sales-and-profitability

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 194 comments

Hacker News Highlights: January 2017

https://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-highlights-january-2017/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Git-scm.com status report

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148600283715424&w=2

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 106 comments

Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-layoff-firefox-device-relevance/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 127 comments

Fearful of Hacking, Dutch Will Count Ballots by Hand

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/europe/netherlands-hacking-concerns-hand-count-ballots.html

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: What is a good source of news for Fintech related stuff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13550156

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps

https://webapphunt.co

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

Announcing gopass – A 'pass' compatible password manager for teams

https://www.justwatch.com/blog/post/announcing-gopass/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 80 comments

Non-military federal agencies’ purchases of guns, ammunition, etc (2016)

https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/7/Oversight_TheMilitarizationOfAmerica_06102016.pdf

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 129 comments

Launch HN: RankScience (YC W17) – Automated Split-Testing for SEO

https://www.rankscience.com

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 84 comments

Uber C.E.O. To Leave Trump Advisory Council After Criticism

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/technology/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-trump-advisory-council.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170202&nl=dealbook&nl_art=0&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 313 comments

The beauty of mixed-radix bases

http://firefly.nu/2017/01/mixed-radix/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer

https://blog.nodemailer.com/2017/02/02/nodemailer-v3-0-0/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

Data from man's pacemaker led to arson charges

http://www.journal-news.com/news/data-from-man-pacemaker-led-arson-charges/sDp2XXGPY1EKJkY57sureP/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 121 comments

TERES I DIY Open Source Hardware and Software Hacker-friendly laptop is complete

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/teres-i-do-it-yourself-open-source-hardware-and-software-hackers-friendly-laptop-is-complete/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

Reddit bans Alt-Right Group

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/01/reddit-bans-alt-right-group.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

First Urban ‘Agrihood’ in America Feeds 2,000 Households for Free

http://www.intelligentnow.org/2017/02/first-urban-agrihood-in-america-feeds.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 82 comments

America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716060-next-four-years-will-keep-students-constitution-busy-americas-system-checks

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 55 comments

Forestdb: A repository for generative models

http://forestdb.org/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

Schneiderman: Spectrum-Time Warner defrauded customers on internet service

http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/271821/schneiderman-spectrum-time-warner-defrauded-deceived-customers-on-internet-service/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Despite revoked CA’s, StartCom and WoSign continue to sell certificates

https://ma.ttias.be/despite-revoked-cas-startcom-wosign-continue-sell-certificates/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments
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