Hacker News on 14 February 2016

• I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
• Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
• Why GNU Emacs?
• Why I don't like smartphones
• Ask HN: Is Python dying?
• Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves
• LyX – The Document Processor
• Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
• EURion constellation
• A Modern App Developer and an Old-Timer System Developer Walk into a Bar