top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-24

Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-break-academic-publishings-stranglehold-on-research/

7 years ago

697 upvotes – 300 comments

The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968

7 years ago

550 upvotes – 92 comments

Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/nov/24/joanna-moorhead-gabriel-mate-trauma-addiction-treat

7 years ago

354 upvotes – 169 comments

Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 193 comments

Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported

https://e.foundation/towards-an-e-fairphone/

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 183 comments

From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

7 years ago

268 upvotes – 47 comments

There is more to high house prices than constrained supply

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/11/24/there-is-more-to-high-house-prices-than-constrained-supply

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 219 comments

Going to university does not broaden the mind

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/11/24/going-to-university-does-not-broaden-the-mind

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 273 comments

How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 206 comments

How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/style/self-care/terry-gross-conversation-advice.html

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 108 comments

How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/health-data-shared-with-tech-companies/10521456

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18522497

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 44 comments

Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/magazine/palm-oil-borneo-climate-catastrophe.html

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 183 comments

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

Raspberry Pi WLAN setup

http://www.berrylan.org/

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 82 comments

For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 113 comments

Why does London's Moorgate tube station have a mix of logo signage?

https://twitter.com/MrTimDunn/status/1065880618662313984

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes’ hypothesis (2007)

https://www.functionalneurology.com/materiale_cic/224_XXII_1/2108_the%20bicamiral/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 92 comments

Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/better-biscuits-south-thanksgiving/576526/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (1998)

https://money.cnn.com/1998/11/24/technology/aol/

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 60 comments

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture (1985) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 13 comments

Problems caused by Google crawlers

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/823-More-Google-Abuse.html

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

The process of open-sourcing BuzzFeed’s single sign-on experience

https://increment.com/security/open-sourcing-buzzfeeds-single-sign-on-process/

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 32 comments

Astronomers detect water in the atmosphere of a planet 179 light-years away

https://www.universetoday.com/140610/astronomers-detect-water-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-planet-179-light-years-away/

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 17 comments

Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues

https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/19/major-ai-conference-is-moving-to-africa-in-2020-due-to-visa-issues/

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 110 comments

Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjxl5/the-beautiful-homes-made-from-bamboo

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 78 comments

The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6753

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523737

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

The Shinkansen Story [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3LLgzO_PrI

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 62 comments

The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers (2016)

https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/11/the-case-against-neighbors-with-leaf-blowers/506324/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 138 comments

Satpy: Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing

https://github.com/pytroll/satpy

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

Euclidean Spaces

https://meurer.xyz/post/2018-11-18-euclidean-spaces/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Tau Prolog: A Prolog Interpreter in JavaScript

http://tau-prolog.org/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Chips Die

https://semiengineering.com/why-chips-die/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

The Burning of Library.nu (2014)

https://knowledgeutopia.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/the-burning-of-library-nu/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Twiverse – Find Twitter users and get more followers

https://twiverse.com

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Cameroon’s President takes Swiss vacations as his country grapples with crises

https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-does-the-lion-sleep-tonight-genevas-intercontinental-hotel-1541368940

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

Software Checklist (2014)

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SoftwareChecklist.html?HN_rk24

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Making transparent wood [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer in male rats

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2018/11/feature/1-feature-radiation/index.htm

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

Airglow

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

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Scatterstocks – visualize the impact of news on stock prices

https://scatterstocks.com/index.html?symbols=AAPL,GOOGL,DVMT,MSFT,AMZN&events=QXBwbGUgVW52ZWlscyBOZXcgaVBhZCBhbmQgTWFjQm9vayBBaXItMTAvMzAvMjAxOEAhQFN0b2NrcyBEaXZlIEFmdGVyIEFwcGxlIFN1cHBsaWVyIFNsYXNoZXMgT3V0bG9vay0xMS8xMi8yMDE4QCFAR29vZ2xlIFdvcmtlcnMgUmVqZWN0IFNpbGljb24gVmFsbGV5IEluZGl2aWR1YWxpc20gaW4gV2Fsa291dC0xMS8wNi8yMDE4QCFA

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Too small to Kafka but too big to wait: Really simple streaming in Clojure

https://dataissexy.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/too-small-to-kafka-but-too-big-to-wait-really-simple-streaming-in-clojure-queues-pubsub-activemq-rabbitmq/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/worlds-oldest-fossils-now-appear-to-be-squished-rocks-20181022/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments
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