top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-01

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/

12 years ago

902 upvotes – 277 comments

The Case for Slow Programming

http://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-case-for-slow-programming/

12 years ago

865 upvotes – 337 comments

The State of JavaScript in 2015

http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascript-in-2015/

12 years ago

675 upvotes – 220 comments

From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

http://www.benjamincburns.com/2014/11/30/from-hacker-to-hospice-in-seven-weeks.html

12 years ago

618 upvotes – 221 comments

“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/invalid-username-or-password-useless/

12 years ago

413 upvotes – 182 comments

The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2014/11/30/the-saddest-thing-i-know-about-the-integers/

12 years ago

396 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681040

12 years ago

335 upvotes – 565 comments

Django REST framework 3.0

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.0-announcement/

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X

http://www.psequel.com/

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 109 comments

How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/11/incenser-or-how-nsa-and-gchq-are.html

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 60 comments

Procedural Planet Generation

http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Fiber Austin

https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/home/

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 148 comments

Speeding up Rails 4.2

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2014/12/01/speeding-up-rails-4-2

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 16 comments

Rust, Generics, and Collections

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/rust-generics-and-collections/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 10 comments

Firefox 34 includes WebRTC videochat client “Firefox Hello”

http://www.tokbox.com/blog/firefox-hello-mozilla-enhances-opentok-powered-video-chat-service/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 94 comments

How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Applications Across Multiple Platforms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 56 comments

Chinese Mobile UI Trends

http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-trends.html

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 34 comments

KillBill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payment Platform

https://killbill.io/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 44 comments

Profile of Tobi Lütke

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/meet-our-ceo-of-the-year/article21734931

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 21 comments

Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works

http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/30/why-eric-schmidt-doesnt-know-how-google-works/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 87 comments

Memcpy vs. memmove

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/memcpy-vs-memmove

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

FastMail's Email Search Architecture

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/01/email-search-system/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 31 comments

Things You Can Do with Python and POV-Ray

http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/11/13/things-you-can-do-with-python-and-pov-ray/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

You could have invented Parser Combinators

http://theorangeduck.com/page/you-could-have-invented-parser-combinators

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

Shadershop – programming GPU shaders by direct manipulation

http://tobyschachman.com/Shadershop

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 6 comments

Kip Thorne: The science of Interstellar

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/11/28/parsing-the-science-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 104 comments

DNSimple DDOS Attack

http://dnsimplestatus.com/incidents/v0x4h75gxf7x

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 114 comments

IPv6 Adoption Statistics

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 131 comments

SpaceX is hiring a Farmer in Texas

http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/5749

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

The resource leak bug of our civilization

http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-resource-leak-bug-of-our.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 88 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681039

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 135 comments

DIY Exoplanet Detection with a DSLR

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-exoplanet-detector

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft acquires Acompli

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/microsoft-acquires-acompli-provider-innovative-mobile-email-apps/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

The Shape of Rome (2013)

http://www.exurbe.com/?p=2219

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 11 comments

HTTP vs. HTTPS

https://www.httpvshttps.com/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser

http://peeinears.github.io/MagicEye.js/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement

http://blog.docker.com/2014/12/initial-thoughts-on-the-rocket-announcement/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Cyber Monday Operation

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/amazon-reveals-robots-heart-epic-cyber-monday-operation/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

The Science of Politely Ending a Conversation

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3038950/evidence/the-science-of-politely-ending-a-conversation

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Nobody expects ENTITY sections in XML, either

http://mikeknoop.com/lxml-xxe-exploit

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

The Long Road to Maxwell’s Equations

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/the-long-road-to-maxwells-equations

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681043

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 196 comments

José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/valim-elixir

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments

24 Pull Requests

http://24pullrequests.com/?year=2014

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

The complete archive for DOOM for the 3DO

https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

★ 1.1k C MIT
85 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Git Gossip – Receive weekly updates from the top 1000 GitHub developers

https://gitgossip.com/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products

http://blog.sawhorsemedia.com/post/104076088572/how-were-spending-55-930-08-a-year-on-saas

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 61 comments

The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page

http://ski.ihoc.net/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Gambit in Emacs in the browser

https://feeley.github.io/gambit-in-emacs-in-the-browser/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Is Internet Addiction a Real Thing?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/internet-addiction-real-thing

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiver-programmers-notebook/id866773894?mt=12

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global market

http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/11/30/how-the-eu-vat-rules-make-eu-startups-and-digital-businesses-uncompetitive-in-a-global-market/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 67 comments

Towards a more perfect link underline

http://www.acusti.ca/blog/2014/11/28/towards-a-more-perfect-link-underline/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: What is the best alternative to Angular JavaScript framework?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680765

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

One college town's uneasy embrace of drinking

http://chronicle.com/article/A-River-of-Booze/150221

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 57 comments

Square Root by Long Division

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SquareRootByLongDivision.html?HN_20141201

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Math Anxiety: Why Hollywood Makes Robots of Alan Turing and Other Geniuses

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/how-hollywood-portrays-alan-turing-and-other-math-geniuses/?ref=technology&_r=0

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

A growing body of research shows that life gets better as we get older

http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-everything-you-think-about-aging-may-be-wrong-1417408057

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments
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