top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-02

John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google

https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/from-stanford-university-president-to-chairman-of-alphabetgoogle

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 101 comments

Family fun with deepfakes

http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 263 comments

Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42916261

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 117 comments

CSS Grid changes everything [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVeCqQCxlk

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 86 comments

RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2018/02/rfc-ubuntu-1804-lts-minimal-images.html

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 115 comments

Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)

http://magnushoff.com/minesweeper/

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 73 comments

Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/why-some-apps-use-fake-progress-bars/517233/?single_page=true

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 194 comments

Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/health/colon-cancer-bacteria.html

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 52 comments

I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/sunday/nfl-cte-brain-damage.html

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 274 comments

How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life

https://longreads.com/2018/02/01/how-a-medical-catastrophe-can-bankrupt-a-life/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 384 comments

A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/business/ai-investing-humans-dominating.html

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 124 comments

Plan 9 public grid

http://wiki.9gridchan.org/public_grid/index.html

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 43 comments

Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180123112606.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.announcements~opencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.vZLR7wKNEei_JBLBh0UxWA

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 32 comments

Writing space invaders with Go

https://sausheong.github.io/posts/space-invaders-with-go/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 123 comments

What people actually do at WeWork

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/money/a14443776/wework-sriracha-is-for-closers/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 136 comments

Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016)

http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 62 comments

5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceNostalgia/comments/7ujdyn/5_months_of_rplace_at_my_elementary_school_one/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

JPMorgan, BofA Ban Cryptocurrency Transactions on Credit Cards

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/bofa-to-decline-all-cryptocurrency-transactions-on-credit-cards

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 103 comments

What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/what-if-gps-stood-for-galactic-positioning-system

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 60 comments

Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games

http://home.bloxelsbuilder.com/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 72 comments

Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (2007)

https://web.archive.org/web/20071031080918/http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/4411/apollo13.htm

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM

https://github.com/aguinet/dragonffi/

8 years ago

★ 565C++Apache-2.0
120 upvotes – 23 comments

A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/1054

8 years ago

★ 3.2kRuby
118 upvotes – 65 comments

The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf]

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mbtaylor/papers/Taylor_Bitcoin_IEEE_Computer_2017.pdf

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild

http://densepose.org/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

VS Code to autocomplete JavaScript class 'this' properties automatically

https://react-etc.net/entry/vs-code-to-autocomplete-javascript-class-this-properties-automatically

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/have-selfdriving-cars-stopped-getting-better

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 125 comments

Urban Birds Are Evolving to Be Fed

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/urban-birds-are-evolving-to-be-fed/551120/?single_page=true

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

Bitcoin drops below $9000 on Coinbase

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/bitcoin-drops-9-percent-nears-crucial-make-or-break-level-of-9000.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 131 comments

Facebook Has Got an Instagram Problem

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/facebook-has-got-an-instagram-problem/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 92 comments

How Amazon Rebuilt Itself Around Artificial Intelligence

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-artificial-intelligence-flywheel/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin Drops Below $8,000 as Cryptocurrency Pain Continues

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/bitcoin-drops-below-8-500-as-cryptocurrency-misery-continues

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland

https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

Dancing mania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

A Tale of Two Columbia Classes

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2018/01/29/a-tale-of-two-columbia-classes/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

Allwinner VPU support for the Linux kernel

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – Roadshow

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-racing-series-electric-gt-cars/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/did-ancient-greeks-sail-to-canada/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

Facebook lost a million users in the US and Canada last quarter

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/02/01/i-salute-the-1-million-north-americans-who-ditched-facebook-last-quarter/

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups

https://blog.hntokyo.io/patio11-ama-hn-tokyo/

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

2017 was probably the best year in the history of humanity

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/2017-progress-illiteracy-poverty.html

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

We Need Fewer Product Managers

https://hackernoon.com/we-need-fewer-product-managers-50e47dfd95a0

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

http://www.blog.descasio.com/microsoft-office-2019-windows-10/

8 years ago

64 upvotes – 188 comments

The Sierra Network

https://www.filfre.net/2018/02/the-sierra-network/

8 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

A Kingdom from Dust

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust

8 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

The Popularity of Near-Death Experience

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-popularity-of-near-death-experience/#!

8 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories

https://development.kitchen

8 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments
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