top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-01

Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again

http://overwatering.org/blog/2013/12/scala-1-star-would-not-program-again/

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 316 comments

Go 1.2 is released

http://blog.golang.org/go12

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827554

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 321 comments

Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History

http://www.garynorth.com/public/11828.cfm

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 297 comments

Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?

https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 180 comments

Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases

http://filmingcops.com/corrupt-government-chemist-tampered-with-40000-cases-locking-countless-innocent-americans-in-prison/

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 164 comments

Thoughts on Bitcoin

http://blog.samaltman.com/thoughts-on-bitcoin

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 197 comments

How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++

https://github.com/SamyPesse/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System

13 years ago

★ 22.4k C Apache-2.0
235 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828699

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 119 comments

GTFO of my menu bar

http://zacbowling.com/menu-bar

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 90 comments

Toast Sandwich

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

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 144 comments

Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Massachusetts Legal System In Turmoil

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174269211/mass-crime-lab-scandal-reverberates-across-state

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 100 comments

Why Vagrant?

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/why-vagrant/index.html

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 98 comments

Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 26 comments

A Warning: Do not turn in illegal files you found to the police.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38432928

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 125 comments

How do you get a job in North Korea?

http://www.nknews.org/2013/11/how-do-you-get-a-job-in-north-korea/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

Machine Learning Video Library

http://work.caltech.edu/library

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 6 comments

Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN

http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/12/01/signholder-receives-over-24000-in-bitcoin-after-qr-code-appears-on-espn/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

Britain targets Guardian paper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-targets-guardian-newspaper-over-intelligence-leaks-related-to-edward-snowden/2013/11/29/1ec3d9c0-581e-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html?hpid=z4

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: GuessHub, our Github Game off entry. Guess a commit's repository

http://guesshub.io/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 17 comments

Why are there so many tunnels under London?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/11/economist-explains-17

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 168 comments

Replacing most of D3.js with pure SVG and AngularJS

http://alexandros.resin.io/angular-d3-svg/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Patent trolls have a surprising ally: universities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/30/patent-trolls-have-a-surprising-ally-universities/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 54 comments

The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588104-humble-usb-cable-part-electrical-revolution-it-will-make-power-supplies

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 88 comments

Bitcoin Crashing

http://markmaunder.com/2013/12/01/next-bitcoin-crash-begins/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

Software Engineering Code of Ethics

http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Linux-ng

https://github.com/torvalds/linux-ng

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Why are Internet standards called “Request for Comments”?

http://blog.jasoncrawford.org/request-for-comments

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Computer-driven cars will convulse the automotive industry

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131130/AUTO01/311300015/1148/AUTO01/Computer-driven-cars-will-convulse-automotive-industry

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 167 comments

Collaboration not Derision in the Node Community

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/collaboration-not-derision-in-the-node-community/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 122 comments

CentOS 6.5 released

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-December/020032.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 42 comments

What's so great about Reducers?

http://blog.guillermowinkler.com/blog/2013/12/01/whats-so-great-about-reducers/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Fool's Gold 2.0: The siren song of Bitcoin

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=97

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

Prenda Law ordered to pay $261K to defendants

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/unhappy-thanksgiving-for-prenda-law-ordered-to-pay-261k-to-defendants/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/hyperemployment-or-the-exhausting-work-of-the-technology-user/281149/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

The Flow Fallacy

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eric_brechner/archive/2013/12/01/the-flow-fallacy.aspx

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

Laboratory mice completely cured of HIV through Tre-Recombinase

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1003587

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

All bitcoin private keys leaked

http://directory.io/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Protests in Ukraine

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aronets

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 46 comments
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