top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-24

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles

http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2014/11/gates-foundation-require-immediate-free-access-journal-articles?utm_content=buffer26432&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

1079 upvotes – 147 comments

2 years with Angular

http://www.fse.guru/2-years-with-angular

12 years ago

445 upvotes – 207 comments

What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders

http://blog.ycombinator.com/what-we-learned-from-40-female-yc-founders

12 years ago

412 upvotes – 277 comments

Git's initial commit

http://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

12 years ago

★ 60.5k C
351 upvotes – 121 comments

On Linux, 'less' can probably get you owned

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/74

12 years ago

302 upvotes – 130 comments

IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/8ba70824-dba2-4425-bc75-247c2c29bde1/ie-web-development-support-moving-to-stack-overflow?forum=iewebdevelopment

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 201 comments

Kill init by touching a bunch of files

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/11/24/touch/

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 123 comments

Postal Service almost never denies mail-surveillance requests

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/11/20/postal-service-almost-never-denies-mail-surveillance-requests/

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 120 comments

Functional Programming using JavaScript

http://scott.sauyet.com/Javascript/Talk/2014/01/FuncProgTalk/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 85 comments

My boys love 1986 computing

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9269-my-boys-love-1986-computing

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 65 comments

The quest for a reactionless space drive

http://boingboing.net/2014/11/24/the-quest-for-a-reactionless-s.html

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 102 comments

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 17 comments

Slack's New Arbitration Policy

https://konklone.com/post/slack-is-now-forcing-users-into-arbitration-and-that-is-terrible

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 113 comments

Semantic UI 1.0 released

https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI

12 years ago

★ 51.1k JavaScript MIT
185 upvotes – 47 comments

GitHub dropped Pygments

http://www.greghendershott.com/2014/11/github-dropped-pygments.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 129 comments

“No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/comingsoon/index.html

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

Reverse Engineering a Keyboard to Play Snake

http://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake&f=redrv

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

‘Serial,’ Podcasting’s First Breakout Hit, Sets Stage for More

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/media/serial-podcastings-first-breakout-hit-sets-stage-for-more.html

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 87 comments

Secret Malware in EU Attack Linked to US and British Intelligence

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 31 comments

CSS Stats

http://cssstats.com/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 32 comments

Rvest: Easy web scraping with R

http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

OCaml Briefly

http://mads379.github.io/ocaml/2014/11/13/ocaml-briefly.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 95 comments

Yeah, I'm sick. Read all about it

http://forgetamnesia.tumblr.com/post/103477584226/yeah-im-sick-read-all-about-it

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 69 comments

What every programmer needs to know about game networking (2010)

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 24 comments

Slack is now forcing users into arbitration

https://konklone.com/post/slack-is-now-forcing-users-into-arbitration-and-that-is-terrible

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 2 comments

Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/24/welcome-to-phabricator-wikimedias-new-collaboration-platform/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 76 comments

101 – A JavaScript utility library

https://github.com/tjmehta/101/

12 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript MIT
120 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

http://www.workshape.io

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

How Does a Debugger Work?

http://blog.0x972.info/?d=2014/11/13/10/40/50-how-does-a-debugger-work

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Rust Hello World on a PSP

https://github.com/luqmana/rust-psp-hello

12 years ago

★ 79 Rust
98 upvotes – 17 comments

Charted – A new way to share data

https://medium.com/data-lab/introducing-charted-15161b2cd71e

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

PDP-11/04 – Restoration

http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/digital-equipment-corporation/pdp-11-04

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

The Final Countdown for NPAPI

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-final-countdown-for-npapi.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 70 comments

Dateparser: Python parser for human readable dates

https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser

12 years ago

★ 2.8k Python BSD-3-Clause
89 upvotes – 31 comments

64-bit ARM Kernel Development Demo on a Nexus 9

http://osdevnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/64-bit-arm-oskernelsystems-development.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering (2002) [pdf]

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/Numbers/Math/documents/Tensors_TM2002211716.pdf

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4798

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 64 comments

PolarSSL is now a part of ARM

https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/blog/polarssl-part-of-arm

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

How Britain Beat Germany’s Magnetic Sea Mines

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/how-britain-beat-germanys-wwii-magnetic-sea-mines-bfec5558704c

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7222479/starfish-wasting-quest-save-keystone-species

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/memory/sixstate-memristor-opens-door-to-weird-computing

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Binary Search Is a Pathological Case for Caches (2012)

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/07/30/binary-search-is-a-pathological-case-for-caches/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

DocuSign, with $230M in funding, why are you copying HelloSign?

http://blog.hellosign.com/docusign-copies-hellosign-user-interface/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Read-Eval-Print-λove v002 – UrLisp is go

http://blog.fogus.me/2014/11/24/read-eval-print-%CE%BBove-v002-urlisp-is-go/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments

Can Qt's moc be replaced by C++ reflection?

http://woboq.com/blog/reflection-in-cpp-and-qt-moc.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret: AngelList is disrupting the hiring industry

http://fitfrnd.com/blog/2014/11/23/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-angel-list-slowly-disrupting-hiring-industry/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone

http://hellopinc.com/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

31C3 Ticket Shop Has Opened

http://events.ccc.de/2014/11/23/31c3-ticket-shop-has-opened/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

What is a proof, really?

http://profkeithdevlin.org/2014/11/24/what-is-a-proof-really/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Getting started with JetBrains Nitra

http://timjones.tw/blog/archive/2014/11/24/getting-started-with-jetbrains-nitra

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Systems software research is still irrelevant

https://trmm.net/Utah2014

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Craigslist DNS redirected due to hacked registrar

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2014-November/012479.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

When G.M. Was Google: The art of the corporate devotional

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/g-m-google

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

The Shrinking World of Ideas

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shrinking-World-of-Ideas/150141/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Teaching Civility: Two Daring Assignments

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/teaching-civility-two-daring-assignments/2014/10/30/6c71682e-4b3c-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 42 comments

Container Algorithms

http://ericniebler.com/2014/11/23/container-algorithms/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments
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