top 50% 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

Android Support vs iOS Support

http://www.fidlee.com/android-support-vs-ios-support/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 108 comments

The Art of Computer Programming - eBook

http://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-volume-1-fascicle-1-mmix-9780201853926

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

New theory may revolutionize superconductors

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/12/new-theory-may-revolutionize-superconductors

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/stolen-cobalt-60-found-in-mexico-curious-thieves-likely-doomed/2013/12/05/262ef990-5d66-11e3-8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 104 comments

Bootstrap 3.0.3 released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/12/05/bootstrap-3-0-3-released/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

37signals Job Board is closing down

https://jobs.37signals.com/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Homejoy (YC S10) Raises $38M as It Looks to Expand Beyond Home Cleaning

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/homejoy-38-m/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Simple Git-backed Microsites

https://www.petekeen.net/simple-git-backed-microsites

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee (2002)

http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281fe18baf&wit_id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281fe18baf-2-1

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 83 comments

How to make a game in 6 weeks

http://piasagames.tumblr.com/post/68300134924/how-to-make-a-game-in-6-weeks

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Dizzying but invisible depth (2011)

https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

China is not banning Bitcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358368.0

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

A Lost Boy Grows Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/a-lost-boy-grows-up.html?hp

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income

http://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-case-basic-income

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 145 comments

Why he is there and I am here

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2013/12/1888/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

WAIT: synchronous replication for Redis

http://antirez.com/news/66

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker

https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/go-vs-d-vs-erlang-vs-c-in-real-life-mqtt-broker-implementation-shootout/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

The simple fix that could heal the patent system

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/the_simple_fix_that_could_heal_the_patent_system.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 59 comments

Build an algorithm to predict friendships, then actually use it to meet people

https://www.joingrouper.com/cuttlefish

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Bop.fm (YC S13) Links Together Music Silos Like Spotify, Rdio To Share Tracks

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/yc-backed-bop-fm-links-together-music-silos-like-spotify-radio-and-itunes-to-share-tracks-universally/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244496/Google_Cloud_Compute_Engine_goes_live?source=rss_applications

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups

http://www.pplfood.com/#

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 75 comments

Big Data, Big Bucks: Palantir Valued at $9 Billion

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/05/big-data-big-bucks-palantir-valued-at-9-billion/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

FSF responds to Microsoft's privacy and encryption announcement

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-responds-to-microsofts-privacy-and-encryption-announcement

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 64 comments
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