top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-08

The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/

8 years ago

759 upvotes – 463 comments

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

8 years ago

606 upvotes – 76 comments

Useful Mental Models (2016)

http://www.defmacro.org/2016/12/22/models.html

8 years ago

586 upvotes – 73 comments

James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-just-filed-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-saying-it-discriminates-against-white-male-conservatives/

8 years ago

502 upvotes – 1003 comments

The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/the-fight-for-patent-unencumbered-media.html

8 years ago

495 upvotes – 170 comments

Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html

8 years ago

469 upvotes – 270 comments

Apple shareholders push for study of phone addiction in children

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/jana-calpers-push-apple-to-study-iphone-addiction-in-children

8 years ago

439 upvotes – 256 comments

Beginner's guide to longevity research

https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 84 comments

Net Neutrality to Get U.S. Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/net-neutrality-to-get-u-s-senate-vote-as-democrats-force-issue

8 years ago

343 upvotes – 157 comments

Google Pay

https://www.blog.google/topics/shopping-payments/announcing-google-pay/

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 326 comments

Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/11/3/16603900/rent-control-san-francisco-stanford-study-gentrification

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 304 comments

Exercise Alters Our Microbiome

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/well/move/exercise-microbiome-health-weight-gut-bacteria.html

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 309 comments

Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network/

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 141 comments

Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 69 comments

Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/intoxication/exploring-alternate-universe

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 96 comments

Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/03/1715035115.full

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 197 comments

Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 100 comments

Casting a $20M Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope [video]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/aerospace/astrophysics/casting-a-20-million-mirror-for-the-worlds-largest-telescope

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 54 comments

Go’s hidden pragmas

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/08/gos-hidden-pragmas

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 115 comments

CEO of porn cryptocurrency disappears with investor money

https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/ceo-of-porn-cryptocurrency-disappears-with-investor-money/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 148 comments

Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 187 comments

Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 46 comments

Azure Functions vs. AWS Lambda – Scaling Face Off

https://www.azurefromthetrenches.com/azure-functions-vs-aws-lambda-scaling-face-off/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/07/feature/in-china-facial-recognition-is-sharp-end-of-a-drive-for-total-surveillance/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 125 comments

PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86

http://archive.is/ma8Iw

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 56 comments

Under River, Outside Time: The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly

https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/07/02/the-woolwich-anomaly/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 79 comments

Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

8 years ago

★ 6.8kHTMLApache-2.0
163 upvotes – 34 comments

What does code readability mean?

http://typicalprogrammer.com/what-does-code-readability-mean

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 129 comments

‘It Can’t Be True’ – Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/-it-can-t-be-true-inside-the-semiconductor-industry-s-meltdown

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 63 comments

GoPro quits the drone business

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16862680/gopro-drones-business-stopped-layoffs-exit

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups

https://pushupalarm.com/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 45 comments

HTC’s Vive Pro will add more pixels to an otherwise familiar-looking VR system

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/htcs-vive-pro-will-add-more-pixels-to-an-otherwise-familiar-looking-vr-system/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 76 comments

Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Scaling Message Delivery

https://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-3-scaling-message-delivery/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 1 comments

Things I did wrong as a professor (2016)

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2016/03/everything-i-did-wrong-as-professor.html

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 77 comments

Snow shovelling can kill

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/blog/snow-shovelling-can-kill-1.3975830

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 176 comments

The Spice of Life

https://www.slowfood.com/the-spice-of-life/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 61 comments

Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recognition

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: At what point did you incorporate for your startup or side project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16093966

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Fish Feel Pain

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/fish-feel-pain-now-what/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 168 comments

Red Dawn in Lapland

https://www.outsideonline.com/2267491/red-dawn-lapland

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-1968-book-that-tried-to-predict-the-world-of-2018

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 91 comments

First Impressions: Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-for-mac-with-kubernetes/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Linear types can change the world (1990) [pdf]

http://www.cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2010/mycroft/linear-2up.pdf

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

DeepTriage: Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Learning for Bug Triaging

http://bugtriage.mybluemix.net/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes

https://www.wired.com/story/goodbye-ipod-and-thanks-for-all-the-tunes/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections

https://github.com/axiomhq/hyperminhash/tree/master

8 years ago

★ 309GoMIT
88 upvotes – 16 comments

The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/07/the-cryptocurrency-bubble-is-strangling-innovation/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 101 comments

Flowsheets Visualizations

http://tinyletter.com/Flowsheets/letters/flowsheets-visualizations

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

The Casio AL-1000

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_al-1000.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

The Market for Stolen Account Credentials

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/the-market-for-stolen-account-credentials/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments
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