top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-15

Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

http://tydligapp.com

13 years ago

411 upvotes – 147 comments

The NSA: An Inside View

http://lorensr.me/nsa-an-inside-view.html

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 313 comments

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna?

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 97 comments

404 - File not found

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/projects/sensornode/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 51 comments

Wil Shipley: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2013/12/my-doom-20th-anniversary-stories.html

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 25 comments

Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP

http://prog21.dadgum.com/93.html?HN2

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 218 comments

CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/css-variables-in-firefox-nightly/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 67 comments

Debian 7.3 is out

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 66 comments

TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

Voevodsky’s Mathematical Revolution

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/10/01/voevodskys-mathematical-revolution/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Emacs is a better editor – case study for JavaScript developer

http://blog.binchen.org/?p=901

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 104 comments

Inside the Saudi 9/11 Coverup

http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 121 comments

Before the Web, Hearts Grew Silent

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/fashion/before-the-web-hearts-grew-silent.html?ref=fashion

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 43 comments

Building a tiny ARM-based server

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/arm.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Raphters: A web framework for C

http://thechangelog.com/raphters-a-web-framework-for-c/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 73 comments

Google is the new Bell Labs

http://davidlitwak.com/google-acts-how-a-tech-behemoth-should

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 102 comments

The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079800/switch-to-open-source-successfully-completed-city-of-munich-says.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57615663-92/ibm-faces-shareholder-lawsuit-over-cooperation-with-nsa/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Thousands of Germans get “porn troll” letters over streaming video

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/thousands-of-germans-get-porn-troll-letters-over-streaming-video/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

So You Think You Have a Power Law

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Is Life a Smoother Ride If You're a Chicken?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/11/28/166059579/is-life-a-smoother-ride-if-you-re-a-chicken

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin

https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple

13 years ago

★ 859 C++
81 upvotes – 35 comments

Hardware Lock Elision on Haswell

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2013/12/14/intel-hle.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 4 comments

Benchmarking Nginx with Go

https://gist.github.com/hgfischer/7965620

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Sex, lies and the Internet: The tale of Lena Chen

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/12/9/lena-chen-onlineharassment.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 110 comments

Boys and Girls may get different breast milk

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=boys-and-girls-may-get-different-breast-milk

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

100 Days of Meditation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1umv8MDX3ahdybOV0iis31t34Nw0weoAOnMJ8Fqogy5o/edit

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Optimizing loops in C for higher numerical throughput and for fun

http://www.lshift.net/blog/2013/11/27/optimizing-loops-in-c-for-higher-numerical-throughput-and-for-fun

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

ThinkGeek: The nerd company at a crossroads

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/thinkgeek-the-nerd-company-at-a-crossroads/2013/12/11/c7d579ba-4b12-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

From Object Oriented Programming to Functional Programming

https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/from_oop_to_fp_-_inheritance_and_the_expression_problem.md

13 years ago

★ 1.5k Python
65 upvotes – 24 comments

Tesla Model E Reveal Slated For 2015 Detroit Auto Show

http://gas2.org/2013/12/13/tesla-model-e-reveal-slated-2015-detroit-auto-show/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

http://techapj.com/24-birthday/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

Notch makes a game from scratch in 48 hours (using Dart)

http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/487318324

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

The SOLID principles of object-oriented design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design)

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

The Sanskrit verse for the value of pi

http://hindufocus.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-sanskrit-verse-for-the-value-of-pi/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let's mess about more

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/14/conformity-killing-creativity-at-work

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

S.F. tech companies' civic image at stake as backlash grows

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-tech-companies-civic-image-at-stake-as-5065669.php

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 77 comments

How to Unit Test Controllers In AngularJS Without Setting Your Hair On Fire

http://nathanleclaire.com/blog/2013/12/13/how-to-unit-test-controllers-in-angularjs-without-setting-your-hair-on-fire/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps

http://www.bitnative.com/2013/12/14/programming-your-brain-the-art-of-learning-in-three-steps/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments
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