top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-01

How to teach yourself hard things

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/

8 years ago

434 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 220 comments

A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WO5kJChg3w

8 years ago

396 upvotes – 152 comments

Web Design Museum

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

8 years ago

372 upvotes – 90 comments

Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among the young

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/08/31/loneliness-is-pervasive-and-rising-particularly-among-the-young

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 222 comments

I don't want to learn your query language

https://erikbern.com/2018/08/30/i-dont-want-to-learn-your-garbage-query-language.html

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 153 comments

$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/600-chromebooks-are-a-dangerous-development-for-microsoft/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 414 comments

MatchSticks: Portable CNC System for Automating Wood-Working Joinery

https://rutian.github.io/projects/MS/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 49 comments

India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/technology/india-technology-american-giants.html

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 163 comments

Rails, still?

https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/08/30/rails-still/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 224 comments

Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/eating-in-10-hour-window-can-override-disease-causing-genetic-defects-nurture-health/

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 87 comments

Microwave Weapons Are Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 116 comments

Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-31/electric-vehicles-in-california-their-day-will-come-suddenly

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 431 comments

Terry Davis, Author of TempleOS, has passed away [unconfirmed, mods please rm]

https://twitter.com/cthulhu20234/status/1035682925956788224?s=21

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft

http://jmoiron.net/blog/notes-on-the-go2-generics-draft/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 114 comments

Meal frequency and timing in health and disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250148/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 62 comments

Coherence Penalty for Humans

http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2018/01/coherence-penalty-for-humans/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 25 comments

Loopwheels: A vibration-reducing wheel with integral suspension

https://www.loopwheels.com/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 57 comments

How to Retire in Your 30s with $1M in the Bank

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-independence-retire-early.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 125 comments

Tesla, software and disruption

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/8/29/tesla-software-and-disruption

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 125 comments

The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/business/media/the-village-voice-closes.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 58 comments

Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time

http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 74 comments

Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/cognitive-bias/565775/?single_page=true

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-45318316

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Paul Graham on why he doesn’t like seeing college-age and younger founders

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/01/paul-graham-on-why-he-doesnt-like-seeing-college-age-and-younger-founders/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Service provider story about tracking down TCP RSTs

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2018-September/096871.html

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Which hackers should I be following these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17891080

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92689/vredefort-crater

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

A Better Way to Cancel Noise

http://nautil.us/blog/a-better-way-to-cancel-noise

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 55 comments

Fail

https://www.facebook.com/notes/tanmay-shankar/fail/10156284481025342/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

How America Killed Transit

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/08/how-america-killed-transit/568825/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 93 comments

Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight after freak tide (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/irish-beach-washed-away-reappears-freak-tide

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/volunteers-scour-drone-footage-online-search-woman-went-missing-hike-north-seattle/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894252

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 173 comments

Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments
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