top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-23

Youtube-dl

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

12 years ago

597 upvotes – 169 comments

JS1k demo: “Highway at Night”

http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/details/1951

12 years ago

525 upvotes – 98 comments

Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/11/23/magnus-carlsen-repeats-at-world-chess-championship/

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 95 comments

A Minecraft world that has been played for 3.5 years

http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground&mapname=surface&zoom=6&x=-109.6183436789116&y=64&z=-17.340908734067128

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 103 comments

Let's put the future behind us

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/11/lets-put-the-future-behind-us-1.html

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 63 comments

Handbrake 0.10.0 released

https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=27

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (2005) [pdf]

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~fastos/05meeting/PLAN9NOTDEADYET.pdf

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 89 comments

DBus, FreeDesktop, and lots of madness

http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2014-11.html#e2014-11-23T09_26_01.txt

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 104 comments

V8 Moving to Git

https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

For Goldman, Government Gift from 2008 Crisis Keeps Giving

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/for-goldman-government-gift-from-2008-crisis-keeps-giving/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

How to Learn Hacking

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacking-howto.html

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLp_rSBzteI

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 28 comments

Intel's Xeon Phi Is Being Sold for a Low Price

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzNjY

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 62 comments

Eschewing Zshell for Emacs

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-fun.html

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

How medieval astronomers made trig tables

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2014/11/23/compute-trig-tables/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

Starting data analysis with R: Things I wish I'd been told

http://reganmian.net/blog/2014/10/14/starting-data-analysiswrangling-with-r-things-i-wish-id-been-told/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

Inside Elon Musk's $1.4B score

http://fortune.com/inside-elon-musks-billion-dollar-gigafactory

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

The Fuzzing Project

https://fuzzing-project.org/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments

Go's Declaration Syntax (2010)

http://blog.golang.org/gos-declaration-syntax

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Baidu’s Andrew Ng on Deep Learning and Innovation in Silicon Valley

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/21/baidus-andrew-ng-on-deep-learning-and-innovation-in-silicon-valley/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

KeyBox: A better way to SSH

http://sshkeybox.com/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

Things I still can't do in November 2014

https://facebook.com/frkrueger/posts/10154867033210444

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 143 comments

When GIFs serve JavaScript

http://iamajin.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-gifs-serve-javascript.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Fix a page in Barbie's book

http://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

PowerVR SGX code leaked

https://libv.livejournal.com/26972.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Category: The Essence of Composition

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/04/category-the-essence-of-composition/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 0 comments

A namespace implementation for Emacs Lisp

https://github.com/Bruce-Connor/names

12 years ago

★ 257 Emacs Lisp
67 upvotes – 11 comments

Python IDLE Reimagined

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2014/11/20/idle-reimagined/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Leaving Gmail Behind (2013)

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/03/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 76 comments

The “Clockwise/Spiral Rule”

http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

9vx: a port of the Plan 9 operating system to FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X

http://swtch.com/9vx/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Folds and parallelism

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/notes/par.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: ActionStreetMap: Build a gaming environment of your own city in Unity3d

http://actionstreetmap.github.io/demo

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

http://stridercd.com/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

UTF-8 history (2003)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Gngr – A new browser championing privacy

https://gngr.info/doc/introduction.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Internet data plan back on political agenda

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30166477

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

Freactive: A high-performance declarative DOM library in ClojureScript

http://documentup.com/aaronc/freactive

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

FourShadows.js – Time-aware algorithm driven shadows for icons

https://github.com/Gigacore/four-shadows

12 years ago

★ 363 JavaScript
48 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Gifify – Convert any video file to an optimized animated GIF

https://github.com/vvo/gifify

12 years ago

★ 6.3k JavaScript ISC
48 upvotes – 11 comments
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