top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-30

Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

http://vimeo.com/108650530

12 years ago

543 upvotes – 121 comments

Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8676140

12 years ago

429 upvotes – 69 comments

Java for Everything

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

12 years ago

387 upvotes – 338 comments

Hard-won lessons about money and investing

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/make-money-investing-tips/

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 248 comments

Functional Programming Patterns

http://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/fp-patterns-buildstufflt

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 68 comments

Vim.js – JavaScript port of Vim

http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/experimental/vim.html

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 58 comments

Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/afl-fuzz-nobody-expects-cdata-sections.html

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 116 comments

Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 37 comments

In Soviet Minecraft, server op you

http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2066

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 63 comments

The History of IRC

http://www.irc.org/history.html

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 90 comments

Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 187 comments

I quit: Miseries of an Uber driver

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/30/i_quit_miseries_of_an_uber_driver/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675672

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg1MDc

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

In France, New Review of 35-Hour Workweek

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/business/international/france-has-second-thoughts-on-its-35-hour-workweek.html?_r=0

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 144 comments

An age-old question

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/11/symptoms-of-ageing.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Fight Corruption with Game Theory

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/29/how-to-fight-corruption-with-game-theory.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 69 comments

Can Mushrooms Treat Depression?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/can-mushrooms-treat-depression.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 29 comments

Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

First Infocom Z-machine implemented in hardware

https://github.com/charcole/Z3

12 years ago

★ 123 C BSD-3-Clause
111 upvotes – 21 comments

A New Software Engineering

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2693160

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 91 comments

Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain

http://eagleman.com/blog/item/6-brain-time

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 52 comments

Making Emacs Work for Me

http://zeekat.nl/articles/making-emacs-work-for-me.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Swiss reject additional immigration curbs

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30267042

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 112 comments

SwampDragon – Build real-time apps with Django

http://swampdragon.net/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 14 comments

Rust borrow and lifetimes

http://arthurtw.github.io/2014/11/30/rust-borrow-lifetimes.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]

http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/cs340/spring05/coursestuff/Bentley_BumperSticker.pdf

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Discover tools and frameworks in the DevOps landscape

http://www.devopsbookmarks.com/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

An argument against call/cc (2012)

http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/firefly-space-systems-charges-full-speed-toward-low-earth-orbit/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Music publishers sue an ISP over piracy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/music-publishers-finally-pull-the-trigger-sue-an-isp-over-piracy

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

ASCII Cam

http://escobar5.github.io/asciicam/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

A Different Eulogy for RadioShack

http://johnmunsch.com/2014/11/30/a-very-different-eulogy-for-radioshack/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

The Upcoming Jack and Jill Compilers in Android

https://www.saikoa.com/blog/the_upcoming_jack_and_jill_compilers_in_android

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

How Fragile Is Our Intellect?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZN0I0NzAzVU0zeDQ/view

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 57 comments

Display the available key bindings automatically and dynamically in Emacs

https://github.com/kai2nenobu/guide-key

12 years ago

★ 377 Emacs Lisp
55 upvotes – 0 comments

Ask HN: How can I get unbanned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677483

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Graph of SICP chapters

http://bl.ocks.org/anonymous/4edbc373e2fc5b63ad0d

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Fake Operator Overloading in JavaScript (2011)

http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/fake-operator-overloading.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

A Soaring Emblem of New York, and Its Upside-Down Priorities

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/is-one-world-trade-center-rises-in-lower-manhattan-a-design-success.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments
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