top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-02

NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/539814651404754944

12 years ago

1424 upvotes – 586 comments

Nature makes all articles free to view

http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460

12 years ago

1102 upvotes – 128 comments

24/192 music downloads are silly

http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

12 years ago

604 upvotes – 424 comments

Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count

https://plus.google.com/+youtube/posts/BUXfdWqu86Q

12 years ago

530 upvotes – 226 comments

Immigration is about talent, not costs

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/immigration-is-about-talent-not-costs/

12 years ago

468 upvotes – 618 comments

Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs

https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ac676f47f7bbc619678a29deae097b6b0710b799

12 years ago

★ 29.3k PHP MIT
300 upvotes – 119 comments

AWS CodeCommit

https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 140 comments

PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/postgresqls-powerful-new-join-type-lateral/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 39 comments

Once Celebrated in Russia, Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrated-in-russia-programmer-pavel-durov-chooses-exile.html?ref=technology&_r=0

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 119 comments

Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/558a64e4-7a17-11e4-9b34-00144feabdc0.html

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 69 comments

Giving Stephen Hawking a voice

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/01/features/giving-hawking-a-voice

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable

http://danielcompton.net/2014/12/02/modular-integrated-docker-coreos

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 33 comments

You Can See the Milky Way

http://www.youcanseethemilkyway.com/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 118 comments

Go: Planning the 1.5 release

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/2ZUi792oztM

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 105 comments

A Shark on the Network

http://blog.nodenexus.com/2014/11/28/a-shark-on-the-network/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 49 comments

Deep learning for chess

http://erikbern.com/?p=841

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 73 comments

TRS-80 Model 4p movie streaming from floppies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SkfJgMuERo&feature=youtu.be

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 37 comments

Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005)

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp?hn=true

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 11 comments

Publish and Perish at Imperial College London: The Death of Stefan Grimm

http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 35 comments

Learn You an Agda

http://williamdemeo.github.io/2014/02/27/learn-you-an-agda/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

Accept donations on your site instantly

https://open.tilt.com/donations

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

The Philosophy of Computer Science (2013)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Notes on Intel Microcode Updates (2013)

http://inertiawar.com/microcode/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 8 comments

Natural Language Processing in Python

http://engineroom.trackmaven.com/blog/monthly-challenge-natural-language-processing/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go

https://github.com/antonholmquist/jason

12 years ago

★ 1.1k Go MIT
106 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: HackerSurf – All the hacker jobs in one place

http://hacker.surf

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

John Carmack on shadow volumes (2000)

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/CarmackOnShadowVolumes.txt

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

HIV evolving 'into milder form'

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30254697

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 69 comments

Google's Intelligence Designer

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532876/googles-intelligence-designer/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

Taipei's new mayor writes a GitBook

https://www.gitbook.com/blog/authors/taipei-mayor-writes-gitbook

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 8 comments

How to nuke a submarine

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/how-to-nuke-a-submarine-2f0bd50f39e

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

HTML6 Concept

http://html6spec.com/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 86 comments

Firefox 34 Launches with Yahoo as Its Default Search Engine

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/01/firefox-34-launches-with-yahoo-as-its-default-search-engine/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

Beer Caps to Coffee Tables

http://blog.thehumangeo.com/2014/12/02/beer-caps-to-coffee-tables/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Runbook – DevOps, automated

https://runbook.io/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

23andMe UK

https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 69 comments

Electricity-free air conditioning

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21634992-new-materials-may-change-way-temperatures-are-regulated-cool-idea

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Our Memory Fails Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/why-our-memory-fails-us.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

What kind of funny is Kafka?

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Is Object-Oriented Programming Useful? With a Role-Playing Game Example

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2014/12/02/why-is-object-oriented-programming-useful-with-an-role-playing-game-example/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 85 comments

Imperative vs. Declarative (2013)

http://latentflip.com/imperative-vs-declarative/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Hawking: AI could end human race

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 110 comments

Docker's killer feature

http://joyent.com/blog/dockers-killer-feature

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

Visualgo: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

http://visualgo.net/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

How to Hire When Everyone Wants to Found Their Own Startup

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/the-talent-dilution-cycle/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (2007)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/20/the-dark-side-2

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Speech recognition, device miniaturization, and intelligence collection

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/12/what-happens-when-spies-can-eavesdrop-any-conversation/100142/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

Brainfilling Curves: A Fractal Bestiary

http://www.brainfillingcurves.com/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments
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