top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-19

They Used To Last 50 Years

http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/

9 years ago

Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

9 years ago

YC AI

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-ai

9 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet

https://medium.com/@awilkinson/the-berkshire-hathaway-of-the-internet-391a8ee83db#.4msesyaie

9 years ago

The beginning of Git supporting other hash algorithms

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e1fae930193b3e8ff02cee936605625f63e1d1e4

9 years ago

★ 60.6k C

Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting

http://www.recode.net/2017/3/19/14976110/uber-president-jeff-jones-quits-management-turmoil-ride-hailing-company?utm_campaign=www.recode.net&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

9 years ago

Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)

https://www.barrucadu.co.uk/posts/etc/2016-08-25-three-months-of-go.html

9 years ago

Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/intels-first-optane-ssd-375gb-that-you-can-also-use-as-ram/

9 years ago

The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure

https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/

9 years ago

How Braintree destroyed a successful taxi startup from Serbia

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101600372983034&set=a.10101417454413314.1073741827.152300130&type=3

9 years ago

I will not log in to your website

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3203

9 years ago

A Good Vimrc (2014)

https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html

9 years ago

How to Learn New Things as an Adult

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/how-to-learn-new-things-as-an-adult/519687/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907624

9 years ago

It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years

https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/animator-hand-draws-film-in-4-years-nova-seed

9 years ago

Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian

http://www.vox.com/2017/2/28/14745596/yuval-harari-sapiens-interview-meditation-ezra-klein

9 years ago

An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14950798/memory-palace-method-of-loci-brain-fmri-activity-neuroscience

9 years ago

Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years

http://acsh.org/news/2017/03/16/suicides-rural-america-increased-more-40-16-years-11010

9 years ago

Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Anybody who left IT?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13906768

9 years ago

Show HN: Aeneas – a Python audio/text aligner

https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas

9 years ago

★ 2.8k Python AGPL-3.0

Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support and only support Vulkan

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/7581676/#Comment_7581676

9 years ago

Spotify is gaining leverage over record labels

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/18/dictate-top-40

9 years ago

AlphaGo Is Not AI

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/why-alphago-is-not-ai

9 years ago

Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults

http://exactlyscience.com/archives/11370.html

9 years ago

Facebook’s Hyperpartisan Political-Media Machine (2016)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html

9 years ago

Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjLsFnQejP8?reddit

9 years ago

TreeMaker: Origami Design Software

http://www.langorigami.com/article/treemaker

9 years ago

The sex-offender registry can be a life sentence

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes?intcid=mod-most-popular

9 years ago

With a 10-day supply of opioids, 1 in 5 become long-term users

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/with-a-10-day-supply-of-opioids-1-in-5-become-long-term-users/

9 years ago

Why I Dissented

https://medium.com/@neelkashkari/5f0fdc48440a

9 years ago

GNU APL 1.7 Released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2017-03/msg00037.html

9 years ago

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks

http://rylanschaeffer.github.io/content/research/overcoming_catastrophic_forgetting/main.html

9 years ago

My township calls my lawn ‘a nuisance’ (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/03/my-town-calls-my-lawn-a-nuisance-but-i-still-refuse-to-mow-it/?postshare=9241470881470420&tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.69163f

9 years ago

Show HN: A new way of blogging about Lua

http://blog.klipse.tech/lua/2017/03/19/blog-lua.html

9 years ago

What are some things you wish you knew when you started programming?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-you-wish-you-knew-when-you-started-programming/answer/Ken-Mazaika?share=1

9 years ago

Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/business/dealbook/blockchain-ibm-bitcoin.html

9 years ago

Don't Worry – It Can't Happen (1940)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzhilstmj94jvlx/1940-sciam-harrington-nuclearweapons-dontworryitcanthappen.pdf

9 years ago