top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-07

John Perry Barlow has died

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

8 years ago

1485 upvotes – 126 comments

Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

8 years ago

568 upvotes – 394 comments

The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

https://gizmodo.com/the-remarkable-e-ink-tablet-is-way-too-good-for-its-sof-1822612517

8 years ago

522 upvotes – 255 comments

Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/

8 years ago

420 upvotes – 195 comments

Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)

http://opengarages.org/handbook/

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 72 comments

LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS

https://github.com/lc-soft/LCUI

8 years ago

★ 4.3k C MIT
335 upvotes – 127 comments

Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/googlebot-javascript-random/

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 108 comments

Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning

https://medium.com/@aldamiz/f8b7fc0a89d7

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 71 comments

Python’s Weak Performance Matters

https://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/pythons-weak-performance-matters/

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 325 comments

A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die

http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/subcultures-mods-skins-lowriders-owen-harvey-photography/

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 122 comments

A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/02/developers-guide-to-nsl.html

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 69 comments

Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression [pdf]

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2167702617747074

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 167 comments

WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

https://www.wireguard.com/

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 43 comments

Americans are spending less on clothing

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-death-of-clothing/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 323 comments

Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/distributed-database-performance/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

http://ceev.io

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 93 comments

The cpu_features library

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/02/cpu-features-library.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 35 comments

SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 310 comments

Telegram Login for Websites

https://telegram.org/blog/login

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 138 comments

An Argument Against Quantum Computers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gil-kalais-argument-against-quantum-computers-20180207/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 62 comments

Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/NYC-Gold-Bucket-Heist-Armored-Truck-1-Million-Dollars-Fugitive-Thief-Speaks-472147013.html

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Visual Studio Live Share Preview

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/blob/master/welcome/welcome-owner.md

8 years ago

★ 2.3k CC-BY-4.0
163 upvotes – 55 comments

"Principles of Adult Behavior" by JP Barlow

https://gist.github.com/hernamesbarbara/c647b18411157205edffcb94db0bcea8

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Nocode: The best way to write secure and reliable applications

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

8 years ago

★ 65.2k Dockerfile Apache-2.0
155 upvotes – 30 comments

The House That Spied on Me

https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Funny or Die's Matt Klinman: “Facebook has destroyed independent digital comedy”

http://splitsider.com/2018/02/how-facebook-is-killing-comedy/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch

http://www.righto.com/2018/02/repairing-card-reader-for-1960s.html

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf]

http://www.physics.umd.edu/grt/taj/675e/OriginsofMaxwellandGauge.pdf

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments

Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team

https://nest.com/blog/2018/02/07/nest-to-join-forces-with-google-hardware-team/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 124 comments

What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/magazine/teenagers-learning-online-porn-literacy-sex-education.html

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 135 comments

Many Animals Can Count

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/animals-count-numbers.html?action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 72 comments

Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/sports/olympics/curling-smart-broom.html?hpw&rref=sports&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/spacex-landed-two-of-its-three-falcon-heavy-first-stage-boosters/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 65 comments

Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/being-texan-prepositions/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 131 comments

Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326411

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 88 comments

How Will I Measure My Life?

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/how-will-i-measure-my-life/1792902224075967/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs_NRwu1Y4

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

Visualising Electromagnetic Fields

http://lukesturgeon.co.uk/work/visualising-electromagnetic-fields

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states

https://dotmesh.com/blog/introducing-dotmesh/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Simple tools/hack for small project management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322942

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 83 comments

Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-06/inside-airbnb-s-battle-to-stay-private

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 84 comments

Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

The Curiously Elastic Limits of Endurance

https://www.outsideonline.com/2279081/are-limits-endurance-mental-or-physical

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Spider-Like Creature with a Scorpion’s Tail Found Trapped in Amber

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/spider-tail-amber.html?mabReward=CTS2&recid=10DBLl3OnsaRNCcvOaGKa2AlMig&recp=5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Watch Every Episode of Bob Ross' the Joy of Painting Free Online

http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/watch-every-episode-of-bob-ross-the-joy-of-painting-free-online.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Lift Weights, Eat More Protein, Especially If You’re Over 40

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/move/lift-weights-eat-more-protein-especially-if-youre-over-40.html?mabReward=ART_TS7&recid=10Dw62jOOFNMOm01S55O0ETnzkP&recp=0&module=WelcomeBackModal&contentCollection=Politics&region=FixedCenter&action=click&src=recg&pgtype=article

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/02/07/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-steps-aside-focuses-on-initialized-capital/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 111 comments

Reddit bans 'deepfakes' AI porn communities

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16982046/reddit-deepfakes-ai-celebrity-face-swap-porn-community-ban

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 79 comments

HomePod

https://daringfireball.net/2018/02/homepod

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 116 comments

Discovering types for entity disambiguation

https://blog.openai.com/discovering-types-for-entity-disambiguation/?

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments
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