top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-17

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html?HN

12 years ago

1230 upvotes – 204 comments

The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price

12 years ago

374 upvotes – 216 comments

How I Start: Haskell

http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 57 comments

Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors

http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2014/11/teaching-algorithms-on-khan-academy.html

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 43 comments

Bup – towards the perfect backup

http://wrouesnel.github.io/articles/bup%20-%20towards%20the%20perfect%20backup/

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 96 comments

For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins

http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 136 comments

Introducing Snapcash

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/102895720555/introducing-snapcash

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 193 comments

Some REST best practices

https://bourgeois.me/rest/

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 162 comments

OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/17/osiris-spots-Philae-drifting-across-the-comet/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 125 comments

Keeping Secrets

https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 27 comments

Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with jsonb data type

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-4-feature-highlight-indexing-jsonb/

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 39 comments

Japan Falls into Recession

http://online.wsj.com/articles/japan-falls-into-recession-1416182404

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 199 comments

The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/usa-freedom-act-week-whats-come-and-what-you-need-know

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 45 comments

All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score

http://contextly.com/blog/2014/11/hacker-news-evergreen-stories-ordered-score/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 27 comments

Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/39700

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 159 comments

Why curl defaults to stdout

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17/why-curl-defaults-to-stdout/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 96 comments

Tornado Without a GIL on PyPy STM

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/11/tornado-without-gil-on-pypy-stm.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: A Python Spider System with Web UI

https://github.com/binux/pyspider

12 years ago

★ 16.8k Python Apache-2.0
159 upvotes – 40 comments

Unraveling NSA's TURBULENCE Programs

https://robert.sesek.com/2014/9/unraveling_nsa_s_turbulence_programs.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 26 comments

Shit recruiters say

http://shit-recruiters-say.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 110 comments

Waste Water from Oil Fracking Injected into Clean Aquifers

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 43 comments

An Opinionated Treatise on Cosmos, a New Programming Language

https://medium.com/@McCosmos/a-treatise-on-cosmos-the-new-programming-language-905be69eb4af

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

BitTorrent Sync security and privacy analysis

http://2014.hackitoergosum.org/bittorrentsync-security-privacy-analysis-hackito-session-results/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/Debian/2014-11-16-23-55_resigning_from_pkg-systemd?

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/the-dutch-village-where-everyone-has-dementia/382195/?single_page=true

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

You only get 1,000 lines of code a week

http://www.onebigfluke.com/2014/11/you-only-get-1000-lines-of-code-week.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 82 comments

LSD-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety with a life-threatening disease

http://jop.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/07/0269881114555249.abstract

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 71 comments

The Spider Programming Language

http://spiderlang.org/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

Source code of Polish electoral voting system?

https://github.com/wybory2014/Kalkulator1/blob/master/Kalkulator1/ClassMd5.cs

12 years ago

★ 361 C#
111 upvotes – 62 comments

Give me back my sanity: How I had to install Pandoc in a CentOS Docker container

https://gist.github.com/grownseed/4fd2e91eca829cc039de

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 63 comments

Xv6 – A Simple Unix-Like Teaching Operating System

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Good Game: The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/good-game?intcid=mod-yml

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js?

http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/comparing_flash_haxe_dart_asmjs_and_cpp.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

The Current State of Smart Locks

http://schuylertowne.com/blog/smart-locks

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Young Brits in Silicon Valley

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/14/ready-steady-startup-silicon-valley

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

GNU GLOBAL source code tagging system

https://www.gnu.org/software/global/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Reproducible Development Environments with GNU Guix

http://dthompson.us/reproducible-development-environments-with-gnu-guix.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Project Oberon, 2013 Edition

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

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Facebook's New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/facebooks-new-data-center-bad-news-cisco/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Blockstream closes $21M round

http://blockstream.com/2014/11/17/blockstream-closes-21m-seed-round/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Wager on Anything Using Bitcoin – Decentralized, Trustless Prediction Markets

http://www.augur.net

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

https://hush.technology/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 93 comments

Scrap your MapReduce – Introduction to Apache Spark

http://rahulkavale.github.io/blog/2014/11/16/scrap-your-map-reduce/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

R4ndom’s Beginning Reverse Engineering Tutorials

http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/sample-page

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Rob Eisenberg leaving Angular 2.0

http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/leaving-angular/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

A Boy and His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/madewithatoms.shtml

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Autoscaling, Welcome to Google Compute Engine

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/11/autoscaling-welcome-to-google-compute.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Hamms: a misbehaving HTTP server for testing your clients

https://github.com/kevinburke/hamms

12 years ago

★ 1.2k Python MIT
66 upvotes – 10 comments

Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/11/16/fitbit-data-court-room-personal-injury-claim/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

C++14 for Qt programmers

http://woboq.com/blog/cpp14-in-qt.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Drone Adventures, Pt. 1: Building a Drone

http://z.svbtle.com/drone-adventures-pt-1-building-a-drone

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Boost by Mercedes-Benz

https://boostbybenz.com/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 54 comments

Microsoft: Satya Nadella steers Windows giant to recovery

http://bbc.com/news/technology-29900969

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 88 comments

Open Netflix replacement API available

http://andrew.im/post/102766867470/flix-netflix-roulette-api

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Komments – Simple comment embedding

https://komments.net

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments

About the OS X Yosemite v10.10.1 Update

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6572

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments

Mosaics Revealed at Ancient Greek City of Zeugma in Turkey

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2014/11/11/mosaics-revealed-at-ancient-greek-city-of-zeugma-in-turkey/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments
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