top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-05

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520

13 years ago

1137 upvotes – 341 comments

Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/download-copy-of-your-gmail-and-google.html

13 years ago

628 upvotes – 169 comments

Multiprocess Firefox

http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-firefox/

13 years ago

415 upvotes – 124 comments

Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX

13 years ago

408 upvotes – 175 comments

After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/04/day-37-how-a-keyboard-works/

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 88 comments

How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008)

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/how_can_c_programs_be_so_reliable

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 221 comments

Real Men Go to Sleep

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/real-men-go-to-sleep/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 180 comments

Functional programming books review

http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 57 comments

As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/engineering-moral-effects-technology-impact

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 196 comments

Stop Saying Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Reversible

http://elidourado.com/blog/bitcoin-arbitration/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 80 comments

China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-05/china-s-pboc-bans-financial-companies-from-bitcoin-transactions.html

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 138 comments

Clever Gets $10 Million To Provide A Standardized API For School Data

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/clever-10m-sequoia/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 79 comments

How to win as a first time founder - a Drew Houston Manifesto

http://firstround.com/article/How-to-Win-as-a-First-Time-Founder-a-Drew-Houston-Manifesto

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

North Korea 2013 – A travel journal

http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/reisen/nordkorea2013/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 82 comments

Anti-Patent Troll Bill Passes The House

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/google-backed-anti-patent-troll-bill-passes-the-house/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 40 comments

Letters to my copyright infringers

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2013/12/03/letters-to-my-copyright-infringers/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 69 comments

GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python

https://github.com/hannes-brt/hebel

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Python GPL-2.0
148 upvotes – 50 comments

Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

Taboo Your Words (2008)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 49 comments

The cost of dynamic vs. static dispatch in C++

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/12/05/the-cost-of-dynamic-virtual-calls-vs-static-crtp-dispatch-in-c/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 70 comments
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