top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-25

DOOMBA

http://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?postid=72

7 years ago

687 upvotes – 36 comments

Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2018/dkfz-pm-18-71-Human-blood-cells-can-be-directly-reprogrammed-into-neural-stem-cells.php

7 years ago

421 upvotes – 37 comments

Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]

https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/TeachYourselfLogic2017.pdf

7 years ago

392 upvotes – 44 comments

Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)

https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d

7 years ago

315 upvotes – 34 comments

Emacs Fireplace

https://github.com/johanvts/emacs-fireplace

7 years ago

★ 750 Emacs Lisp
269 upvotes – 86 comments

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

https://github.com/anvaka/atree

7 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT
266 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

https://jjkaufman.github.io/wiv.js/

7 years ago

265 upvotes – 55 comments

Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7psGHgatGM

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 124 comments

My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AeoAWGJBw

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 92 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757028

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 129 comments

Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer

https://fabiensanglard.net/postcard_pathtracer/

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 24 comments

China Cracks Down on Churches

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/world/asia/china-christmas-church-crackdown.html

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759658

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 137 comments

Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her

https://letgrow.org/mom-lets-her-kids-walk-to-the-bakery-down-the-block-child-protective-services-tells-her-never-again-till-they-are-12/

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 70 comments

Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18152012/fortnite-was-2018s-most-important-social-network

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 75 comments

I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 93 comments

What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks

https://www.voanews.com/a/time-may-be-running-out-for-millions-of-clocks/4554376.html

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 118 comments

The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/11/27/the-clean-plate-mentality-drives-us-to-overeat-to-go-bags-can-help/

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 118 comments

React Kawaii – Cute React SVG Components

https://react-kawaii.now.sh/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-national-automated-highway-system-that-almost-was-63027245/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 71 comments

Creating a Non-Trivial Lisp Game in 2018

https://defungames.com/2018/12/creating-a-non-trivial-lisp-game-in-2018/

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 27 comments

Two-phase commit and beyond

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/12/2-phase-commit-and-beyond.html

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 3 comments

The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong

http://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 115 comments

Designing web page layouts for screen readers

https://benrobertson.io/accessibility/designing-layouts-for-screen-readers

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/kurt-godel-and-the-romance-of-logic

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

The Matrix.org 2018 year in review

https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/25/the-2018-matrix-holiday-special/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/sd-me-salk-genetic-signs-aging-detected-20181224-story.html

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Exaggeration Jokes Work

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/biological-phenomenon-why-wit-works/578842/

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 64 comments

Bach, the Master Recycler

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/20/bach-master-recycler/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Small stupid things that make up my dev environment

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/21/env/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

Magic Printer Cartridge Paintbrush

http://spritesmods.com/?art=magicbrush

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

Migration trends in U.S. metro areas

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/chicago-exodus-sees-city-shrink-by-156-daily-demographic-trends

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: How was your Advent of Code 2018 experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756313

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

Transposing Instruments

https://opencurriculum.org/5567/transposing-instruments/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 86 comments

Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/science/subsurface-microbes.html

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Ruby 2.6.0 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments
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