top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-26

Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/generating-custom-photo-realistic-faces-using-ai-d170b1b59255

8 years ago

569 upvotes – 116 comments

A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html

8 years ago

527 upvotes – 504 comments

Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/25/decade-data-reveals-heavy-multitaskers-reduced-memory-psychologist-says/

8 years ago

430 upvotes – 112 comments

Not Lisp again (2009)

https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 233 comments

“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ldquo-stress-hormone-rdquo-cortisol-linked-to-early-toll-on-thinking-ability/?fbclid=IwAR0D45Rg_mM3aFJ5_T0-zQeJkk1P3ErQNOy1PW9qTM1X71HAEUb3cB2l1H8

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 211 comments

The Architecture of Git (2012)

http://aosabook.org/en/git.html

8 years ago

355 upvotes – 79 comments

One Windows Kernel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/One-Windows-Kernel/ba-p/267142

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 225 comments

Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

https://blog.github.com/2018-10-26-github-and-microsoft/

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 170 comments

Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series

https://eater.net/quaternions

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 32 comments

Dynamicland: The Next Big Thing Is a Room

https://phenomenalworld.org/metaresearch/the-next-big-thing-is-a-room

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 61 comments

Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices

https://apnews.com/a8825810d10441f2ad828e95d6851d55

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 237 comments

Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

http://praguemonitor.com/2018/10/26/pirate-zden%C4%9Bk-h%C5%99ib-be-prague-mayor

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 100 comments

WebRender is in beta

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/webrender-newsletter-27/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 74 comments

Top lawyers beaten by legal AI

https://hackernoon.com/20-top-lawyers-were-beaten-by-legal-ai-here-are-their-surprising-responses-5dafdf25554d

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 113 comments

Two years of Elixir at The Outline

https://blog.usejournal.com/two-years-of-elixir-at-the-outline-ad671a56c9ce

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 104 comments

When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k7pya/tv-addons-sued-by-rogers-bell-fairplay-members

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 118 comments

Friendly Floatees

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

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

https://github.com/susam/texme

8 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT
209 upvotes – 90 comments

Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45971538

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 220 comments

Perceptual Illusions

http://nautil.us/blog/12-mind_bending-perceptual-illusions

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 24 comments

Packets per Second Limitations in EC2

https://www.bluematador.com/blog/ec2-packets-per-second-guaranteed-throughput-vs-best-effort

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 43 comments

Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?

https://thepointsguy.com/news/this-is-the-reason-you-arent-feeling-as-much-turbulence-on-delta-flights/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 61 comments

Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/how-tesla-proved-cash-flow-critics-wrong/

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 248 comments

The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation [pdf]

http://conal.net/papers/essence-of-ad/essence-of-ad-icfp.pdf

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 16 comments

Tesla Faces Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-faces-deepening-criminal-probe-over-whether-it-misstated-production-figures-1540576636

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 150 comments

In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/11/antarctica-climate-change-western-peninsula-ice-melt-krill-penguin-leopard-seal/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 126 comments

Atari Asteroids: Creating a Vector Arcade Classic

https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/10/24/atari-asteroids-creating-a-vector-arcade-classic/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

Morocco abruptly drops clock change

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45995634

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 195 comments

A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]

https://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/oshug69-Miller-criscv.pdf

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)

http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html?view=classic

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 77 comments

Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/are-narcissists-more-likely-to-experience-impostor-syndrome/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 89 comments

China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/china-systematically-hijacks-internet-traffic-researchers-514537

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Why might reading make people myopic?

http://www.eye-tuebingen.de/the-institute/news-events/news/news-article/60-why-might-reading-make-myopic/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Lost $10k as my email was hacked. Any ways to recover it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310135

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development

https://github.com/kingkool68/generate-ssl-certs-for-local-development

8 years ago

★ 1.3k Shell
107 upvotes – 46 comments

A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-proof-about-where-symmetries-cant-exist-20181023/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

Quest for Glory III and IV

https://www.filfre.net/2018/10/quest-for-glory-iii-and-iv/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

RobinHood: tail latency aware caching – dynamic reallocation

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/26/robinhood-tail-latency-aware-caching-dynamic-reallocation-from-cache-rich-to-cache-poor/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by First Known Use Date

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

Future of Statistical Programming

http://www.science.smith.edu/~amcnamara/FoSP.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Injecting .Net Assemblies into Unmanaged Processes

https://movaxbx.ru/2018/10/23/injecting-net-assemblies-into-unmanaged-processes/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Compiling to Categories (2017) [video]

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

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar

https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/12/the-world-almost-had-a-13-month-calendar/383610/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust

https://andre.arko.net/2018/10/25/parsing-logs-230x-faster-with-rust/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

LSTM Neural Network that tries to write piano melodies similar to Bach's (2016)

https://github.com/robbiebarrat/Bach_AI

8 years ago

★ 122 NewLisp MIT
75 upvotes – 12 comments

DevOops, some common anti-patterns

https://hackernoon.com/devoops-some-common-anti-patterns-1850ac2f5074

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Multi-view Wire Art

https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/projects/recreational_graphics/MVWA

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/10/seven-weeks-to-venice-history-through.html

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 1 comments

A Comprehensive Guide to Sentiment Analysis

https://monkeylearn.com/sentiment-analysis/

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 1 comments
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