top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-08

A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining

http://guidetodatamining.com/

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 32 comments

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 363 comments

No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim

http://indiestatik.com/2013/12/07/mans-sky/

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 116 comments

NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-morale-down-after-edward-snowden-revelations-former-us-officials-say/2013/12/07/24975c14-5c65-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 167 comments

Baby's First Garbage Collector

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 84 comments

CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cpu_reliability.html

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 95 comments

Further improving digital certificate security

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/12/further-improving-digital-certificate.html

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 84 comments

Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him

http://pando.com/2013/12/08/airbnb-says-this-man-does-not-exist-so-i-had-coffee-with-him/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 190 comments

An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/03/open-letter-carl-bernstein-alan-rusbridger

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 63 comments

Is it bad practice to use your real name online?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/46569/is-it-bad-practice-to-use-your-real-name-online

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 161 comments

Arvind Kejriwal

http://techapj.com/arvind-kejriwal/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

An effective eye drug is $50, but many doctors choose a $2,000 alternative

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/an-effective-eye-drug-is-available-for-50-but-many-doctors-choose-a-2000-alternative/2013/12/07/1a96628e-55e7-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 115 comments

“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments

http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/07/no-fly-trial-day-5-part-1-closing-arguments/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 42 comments

Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

https://wilwheaton.net/2013/12/not-everyone-is-going-to-like-the-thing-you-made-and-thats-okay/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Writing HTTP Middleware in Go

http://justinas.org/writing-http-middleware-in-go/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

Touch Gesture Icons

http://www.mobiletuxedo.com/touch-gesture-icons/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

India state polls: Common Man's party wins Delhi seats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25292627

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/12/07/feedlys-sharing-options-now-direct-shared-articles-servers-cuts-original-publishers

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Chromium: I just wanted to quickly hack an iframe blocker for personal use

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard

13 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
89 upvotes – 39 comments

StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6868959

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

http://hackoftheday.securitytube.net/2013/04/my-code-made-it-to-hollywood-movie.html?

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/shameful-profiling-of-the-mentally-ill.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Talloc: The Tutorial

https://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/libtalloc__tutorial.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

What I learned from Howard Stern about interviewing people

http://growingsoftware.org/getting-the-truth/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU (2008)

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch01.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Availability.is

http://availability.is/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate

http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/12/08/microsoft-ceo-search-stalemate/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

Anatomy of a failed rendition

http://booktwo.org/notebook/anatomy-failed-rendition-ifa-muaza/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

The Case for Filth

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-filth.html?pagewanted=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

German president to boycott Olympics in Russia over human rights

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/08/world/europe/germany-russia-olympics-boycott

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Scala's Maturing Community

http://skipoleschris.blogspot.com/2013/12/scalas-maturing-community.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

WalmartLabs Discusses how Node.js Performed on Black Friday

http://nodeup.com/fiftysix

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Why do we value gold?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25255957

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 75 comments

Tips on Writing Dockerfiles

http://www.techbar.me/writing-dockerfile/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics [pdf]

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2013/ml.pdf

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Knex and Bookshelf – ORM for JavaScript

http://thinkingonthinking.com/Bookshelf-an-ORM-for-Node/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Question: How do I build a discussion board in the HN Style?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6869920

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments
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