Hacker News on 26 January 2016

• Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
• Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
• It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
• Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
• Fellowship V2
• A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together
• Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures
• Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
• “No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors
• From Python to Lua: Why We Switched