top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-03

Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html

12 years ago

Wire – Modern Communications Network

https://www.wire.com/

12 years ago

World's Simplest Electric Train [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9b0J29OzAU

12 years ago

Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click

http://yasserali.com/hacking-paypal-accounts-with-one-click/

12 years ago

Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python

http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/

12 years ago

Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting

http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/12/01/extending-van-goghs-starry-night-with-inpainting/

12 years ago

6 GHz frequency modulated radar

http://hforsten.com/6-ghz-frequency-modulated-radar.html

12 years ago

Why my book can be downloaded for free

http://blog.plover.com/2014/12/01/

12 years ago

Resumes suck for hiring engineers

http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/?hn=1

12 years ago

Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive

https://medium.com/@blakeross/uber-gov-29db5fdff372

12 years ago

In Wayzata, Minnesota, a school spies on its students

http://boingboing.net/2014/12/03/in-wayzata-minnesota-a-schoo.html

12 years ago

Java Doesn’t Suck

http://www.jamesward.com/2014/12/03/java-doesnt-suck-youre-just-using-it-wrong

12 years ago

Why the data center needs an operating system

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/12/why-the-data-center-needs-an-operating-system.html

12 years ago

GitHub blocked in Russia

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opennet.ru%2Fopennews%2Fart.shtml%3Fnum%3D41171&edit-text=

12 years ago

Aliens in the Valley: The History of Reddit

http://mashable.com/2014/12/03/history-of-reddit/

12 years ago

The Open-Office Trap

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap

12 years ago

System.Linq.Parallel Is Now Open Source

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/tree/master/src/System.Linq.Parallel

12 years ago

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Incident Report – DDoS Attack

http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/12/incident-report-ddos/

12 years ago

Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984

http://prog21.dadgum.com/201.html

12 years ago

Tax crackdown on banks and multinationals 'to raise £5bn'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30310832

12 years ago

Hacker news for data scientists

http://www.datatau.com/?from=@

12 years ago

Google can now tell you are not a robot with just one click!

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/

12 years ago

Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/01/law_school_applications_collapse_get_ready_for_schools_to_start_closing.html?wpsrc=fol_fb

12 years ago

How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control

http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-the-brain-uses-glucose-to-fuel-self-control-1417618996

12 years ago

Lecture 19: Sales and Marketing – How to Talk to Investors

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec19/

12 years ago

Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management

http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

12 years ago

Pay It Forward Design Bundle – 100% to Watsi

https://payitforwardbundle.com/

12 years ago

US Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Miners

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-has-more-solar-workers-than-coal-miners-2014-7

12 years ago

Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/firebug-3-multiprocess-firefox-e10s/

12 years ago

The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/byz.pdf

12 years ago

Hunting Task Wabbits

https://medium.com/matter/hunting-task-wabbits-c60679bad0f6

12 years ago

Lessons learned while starting an online business

http://www.grassweb.com.au/blog/3-key-lessons-learned-while-starting-an-online-business

12 years ago

$82,982,977 USD: $ 0.04 Transaction Fee

https://blockchain.info/tx/8f1d3a8ef6b2d4a25d2f499279e01518b4770819ccbc39a765c4c326170c61b3

12 years ago

CPU DB, a database of processors for researchers and hobbyists

http://cpudb.stanford.edu/

12 years ago

The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention

http://bad-concurrency.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-uncanny-valley-of-l3-cache.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Gantt chart component for AngularJS

https://www.angular-gantt.com/demo

12 years ago

MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies

http://macgapproject.github.io/

12 years ago

Lispkit – A Lisp browser using WebKit

https://github.com/AeroNotix/lispkit

12 years ago

★ 242 Common Lisp BSD-2-Clause

Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos

http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/i2t

12 years ago

Dürer's polyhedron: theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cube

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/dec/03/durers-polyhedron-5-theories-that-explain-melencolias-crazy-cube

12 years ago

Welcome Michael, Jon, and Ilya

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-michael-jon-and-ilya

12 years ago

The golden quarter

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/

12 years ago

Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email

https://tutanota.de

12 years ago

Become an Official Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter

http://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

12 years ago

XRay Unreal Engine 4.5 source code

http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=965

12 years ago

MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) is now MakeSchool, building an alternative CS degree

https://www.makeschool.com/article/introducing-makeschool

12 years ago

Crazy Pool Vortex [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnbJEg9r1o8

12 years ago

More from the Sony Pictures hack

http://fusion.net/story/30850/

12 years ago

NYC Rat Map

http://meredithmmyers.com/ratmap

12 years ago

Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to protect online accounts

https://getlogdog.com/

12 years ago

A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2014/december/haptic-shapes-using-ultrasound.html

12 years ago

Teaching Essay Writing in Pyongyang

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/what_it_was_like_to_teach_essay_writing_to_north_korean_graduate_students.single.html

12 years ago

Workshape.io – Talent matching for tech startups

http://workshape.io/

12 years ago