top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-12

Hair Ice

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

8 years ago

405 upvotes – 69 comments

Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/psychedelic-drugs-brain-repair-lsd-depression-anxiety-lsd-dmt-amphetamines-ketamine-a8395511.html

8 years ago

367 upvotes – 231 comments

Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/solar-surpasses-gas-and-wind-as-biggest-source-of-new-u-s-power

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 264 comments

The Trouble with D3

https://medium.com/@enjalot/the-trouble-with-d3-4a84f7de011f

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 156 comments

Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.html

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 233 comments

AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner

https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/att-time-warner-merger-approved-1202840369/

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 269 comments

Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17291127

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 468 comments

Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

https://electrek.co/2018/06/12/tesla-layoffs-workforce-restructure/

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 373 comments

Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Now-you-can-deploy-your-Node-js-app-to-App-Engine-standard-environment.html

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 112 comments

Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg26385.html

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 81 comments

I fear Google's control of the web

http://scripting.com/2018/06/12/140329.html

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 159 comments

Rome vs Greece: a clash of empires

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/rome-vs-greece-a-little-known-clash-of-empires-1.3523821

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 143 comments

Things I Learned in the Gulag

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 222 comments

Show HN: Dilay – A free 3D sculpting application

https://abau.org/dilay/

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 80 comments

The Story Behind Susan Kare’s Iconic Design Work for Apple

https://milanote.com/the-work/the-story-behind-susan-kares-iconic-design-work-for-apple

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 48 comments

Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

https://github.com/kvakvs/gluonvm1

8 years ago

★ 67 C++
209 upvotes – 66 comments

How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 150 comments

How do dat:// sites interact with servers?

https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/dat-and-servers

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 54 comments

Vice Media: A Company Built on a Bluff

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 70 comments

Aristo – A system that reads, learns, and reasons about science

http://aristo-demo.allenai.org

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 131 comments

Sequoia Capital China Said To Invest In Bitmain's $400M Round At $12B Valuation

https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2018/06/11/sequoia-capital-china-said-to-invest-in-bitmains-400m-pre-ipo-round

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 95 comments

Netflix suffers first massive global outage

https://news.alphastreet.com/netflix-suffers-first-massive-global-outage/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go

https://github.com/albrow/fo

8 years ago

★ 1.2k Go
165 upvotes – 124 comments

The rise and fall of Sugru

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-sugru

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 133 comments

Making Web Components Work

https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2018/06/12/making-web-components-work/

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 111 comments

Text Normalization using Memory Augmented Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00044

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 16 comments

How the gig economy is making life harder for North American workers

https://www.macleans.ca/society/how-the-growing-gig-economy-is-making-life-harder-for-north-american-workers/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 142 comments

Are real numbers really real?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06824

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 234 comments

Beware the ‘Buyback Economy’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beware-the-mother-of-all-credit-bubbles/2018/06/08/940f467c-69af-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 124 comments

Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed EU Copyright Overhaul

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/illegal-memes-weak-safe-harbor-unpacking-the-proposed-eu-copyright-overhaul/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

FreeBSD gets pNFS support

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=335012

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on the Web

https://remotestorage.io/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

The Quant King, the Drug Hunter, and the Quest to Unlock New Cures

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-12/a-quant-king-and-a-drug-hunter-join-in-a-quest-to-find-new-cures

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44453382

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 51 comments

Study confirms lifting weights reduces depression

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/study-confirms-lifting-weights-reduces-depression

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 78 comments

Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging

https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/06/microsofts-failed-attempt-on-debian-packaging/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 106 comments

Gitlab 500 error

https://gitlab.com

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 116 comments

Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’ll accept

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/owners-of-fading-malls-on-their-knees-as-buyer-pool-evaporates

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 185 comments

Linux is Obsolete (1992)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI%5B1-25%5D

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: T2b – A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files

https://github.com/thosakwe/t2b

8 years ago

★ 378 C++ GPL-3.0
117 upvotes – 52 comments

AT&T to Acquire Time Warner

http://about.att.com/story/att_to_acquire_time_warner.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17295064

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 89 comments

Faster Natural Language Processing in Python

https://medium.com/huggingface/100-times-faster-natural-language-processing-in-python-ee32033bdced

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 3 comments

Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation

https://www.axios.com/scooter-startup-bird-is-seeking-a-2-billion-valuation-1528813078-11187061-2a49-440c-a2e6-65e74faad5ec.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 269 comments

Short Gitlab tutorial for curious people

https://github.com/luongvo209/Short-Gitlab-Tutorial

8 years ago

★ 134 MIT
101 upvotes – 48 comments

802.11 with Multiple Antennas for Dummies (2009) [pdf]

https://djw.cs.washington.edu/papers/mimo_for_dummies.pdf

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

A Child’s Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes

https://latacora.singles/2018/06/12/a-childs-garden.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/ousterhout-threads.pdf

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 97 comments

50+ real world use cases built on blockchain architecture

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*cVeTQYLF5Z35yGoZ23Sfmw.png

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Evil Teacher: Code Injection in Moodle

https://blog.ripstech.com/2018/moodle-remote-code-execution/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/titus-the-netflix-container-management-platform-is-now-open-source-f868c9fb5436

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Mars Opportunity rover is in danger of dying from a dust storm

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/11/mars-opportunity-rover-minimal-power-mode-dust-storm/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments
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