top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-10

Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=AvFNCNOyZeE

8 years ago

796 upvotes – 85 comments

The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation

https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/

8 years ago

441 upvotes – 155 comments

Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/playing-minecraft-with-my-son.html

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 172 comments

Is vitamin D really a cure-all, and how should we get our fix?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/09/is-vitamin-d-really-a-cure-all-and-how-should-we-get-our-fix

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 131 comments

Geany – Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows

https://www.geany.org/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 92 comments

E.O. Wilson on Introversion, the Limits of IQ, and Where Ideas Come From

https://medium.com/@mmeditations/e-o-wilson-on-the-upside-of-introversion-the-limits-of-iq-and-where-ideas-really-come-from-23cface0cd8b

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 68 comments

Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-01/britain-s-white-collar-cops-are-getting-too-good-at-their-job

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 163 comments

Debian 9.4 released

https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180310

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 116 comments

Literate Devops with Emacs Org-Mode (2014)

http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560655

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 202 comments

When That Guy Died on My Show (2007)

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/when-that-guy-died-on-my-show/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 61 comments

AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-has-a-hallucination-problem-thats-proving-tough-to-fix/

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 104 comments

Stateful Experiments on AWS Lambda

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/lasp/2018/03/10/serverless.html

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 14 comments

Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a34b7b/phantom-secure-sinaloa-drug-cartel-encrypted-blackberry

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 112 comments

Writing an OS in Rust, Second Edition

https://os.phil-opp.com/second-edition/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 111 comments

Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories

http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

Palantir Wins $876M U.S. Army Contract

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/peter-thiel-s-palantir-wins-876-million-u-s-army-contract

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 131 comments

How autism may stem from problems with prediction

https://spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/autism-may-stem-problems-prediction/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 46 comments

Why ‘your’ programmers just want to code

https://hackernoon.com/why-your-programmers-just-want-to-code-36da9973388e

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 105 comments

Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother

https://palant.de/2018/03/10/master-password-in-firefox-or-thunderbird-do-not-bother

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

Stochastic Resonance

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

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: What tools have most helped your day-to-day productivity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560812

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 105 comments

Enemy within: gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease

https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/08/enemy-within-gut-bacteria-drive-autoimmune-disease

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Growth ideas for SaaS

http://tiiiny.com/?ref

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant

http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-newly-formed-company-launch-novel-approach-fusion-power-0309

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

Tail Recursion Tactics: Fibonacci

https://blog.des.io/posts/2018-03-08-fibonacci.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

Generating artwork with Haskell

http://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 6 comments

Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch (2017)

http://meow.noopkat.com/lessons-from-one-year-of-streaming-on-twitch/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL

https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S3-static-website-with-ssl

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/when-twenty-six-thousand-stinkbugs-invade-your-home

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

A New Era of Batteries Spells Trouble for Gas in America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/a-new-era-of-batteries-spells-trouble-for-natural-gas-in-america

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 103 comments

Austerity and the rise of the Nazi party [pdf]

https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/fac/gem/nazi_austerity.pdf

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 89 comments

The tech world is split over Telegram’s fund-raising campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/telegram-initial-coin-offering.html

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 75 comments

Researchers produce nearly-pure rare earth concentrates from coal

https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-researchers-first-produce-high-grade-rare-earths-coal

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

TunSafe WireGuard Client for OS X

https://tunsafe.com/osx

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments
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