top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-04

Introducing .NET Core

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx

12 years ago

458 upvotes – 218 comments

Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine

http://duktape.org/

12 years ago

445 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps

http://getflakes.com/index.html

12 years ago

438 upvotes – 93 comments

Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government Backdoors Into Cellphones and Computers

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-introduces-bill-to-ban-government-mandated-backdoors-into-americans-cellphones-and-computers

12 years ago

417 upvotes – 62 comments

Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps

http://blog.docker.com/2014/12/announcing-docker-machine-swarm-and-compose-for-orchestrating-distributed-apps

12 years ago

370 upvotes – 189 comments

Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697772

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 123 comments

Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods

http://m.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-39221

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 216 comments

Write the Docs

http://docs.writethedocs.org

12 years ago

277 upvotes – 22 comments

Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs-geekiness-and-starting-apple-GVS_jUoTQtGYj9fwLg8dbQ.html

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 136 comments

Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/julian-assange-on-living-in-a-surveillance-society.html

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 111 comments

Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/sony-hack-what-we-know/

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 173 comments

Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699040

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 122 comments

Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes

https://github.com/citusdata/pg_shard

12 years ago

★ 1k C LGPL-3.0
216 upvotes – 27 comments

The No CAPTCHA problem

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-no-captcha-problem.html?

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 96 comments

How to Get a Quant Job in Finance

https://www.financejobs.co/development/how-to-get-a-quant-job-in-finance.html

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 140 comments

Orion flight test rescheduled for tomorrow

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VIAwicl5V8F

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 72 comments

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Two petabytes

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Piste.io

http://www.piste.io

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

Supersonic: New UI Hybrid Framework – Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova

http://www.appgyver.com/supersonic

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium, and It Killed Her

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/my-great-great-aunt-discovered-francium-and-it-killed-her.html

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html#

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Distributed systems readings

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 16 comments

LambdaLite: A functional, relational Lisp database in 250 lines of Common Lisp

https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite

12 years ago

★ 411 Common Lisp MIT
126 upvotes – 20 comments

Inspirograph

http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

Uber vs. Lyft: From The Driver’s Seat

https://medium.com/life-learning/uber-vs-lyft-an-insiders-view-fb14ba0a3dbb

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-aws-cloud/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Single-shot compressed photography at one hundred billion frames per second

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7529/full/nature14005.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

“You will not be arrested for using drugs”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/02/you-will-not-be-arrested-for-using-drugs-what-a-sane-drug-policy-looks-like/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 48 comments

The R language, for programmers

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/r_language_for_programmers/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 77 comments

A farewell note to a programming language

http://matthiasnehlsen.com/blog/2014/12/04/Farewell-Scala/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

An opinionated guide to Scheme implementations (2013)

http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide-to-scheme-implementations

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

Royalty, Espionage, and Erotica: Secrets of the World's Tiniest Photographs

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/secrets-of-the-worlds-tiniest-photographs/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 3 comments

A Brief History of Web Design for Designers

http://blog.froont.com/brief-history-of-web-design-for-designers/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

Carmageddon 1 debugging symbols dumped

http://www.1amstudios.com/2014/12/02/carma1-symbols-dumped/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

The Question Mark

http://campfireunion.tumblr.com/post/104352187462/the-question-mark

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

The long tail of MD5

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-long-tail-of-MD5

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

Uber Confirms New $1.2B Funding Round, Looks to Asia for Expansion

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/04/uber-confirms-new-1-2b-funding-round-looks-to-asia-for-expansion/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 92 comments

Chrome 40 beta: Offline service workers

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/12/chrome-40-beta-powerful-offline-and.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Cancer’s Super-Survivors: How Immunotherapy Is Transforming Oncology

http://online.wsj.com/articles/cancers-super-survivors-how-immunotherapy-is-transforming-oncology-1417714379

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Comparison of the Go and Erlang concurrency models (2011)

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly/1768317?_ga=1.175054754.1418968640.1417677887

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency

https://bit.ink/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Go and Swift take another step up the programming language ladder

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Make an animated gif of a developer each time their app throws an error

http://blog.oozou.com/lol-errors/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Korean Competition Shows Weather Still a Challenge for Autonomous Cars

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/japan-competition-shows-weather-still-a-challenge-for-autonomous-cars

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 82 comments

Bitrig 1.0 Released – OpenBSD fork

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.bitrig.devel/6

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World

http://time.com/facebook-world-plan/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Architecture vs. Implementation Code Reviews

http://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/14-12-02-architecture-reviews

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

IO.js, a Node fork

http://iojs.org/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos

http://www.quantamagazine.org/20141204-a-common-logic-to-seeing-cats-and-cosmos/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

MIPS Creator CI20 development board now available for $65

http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/mips-creator-ci20-development-board-now-available

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 42 comments

Homo erectus made world's oldest doodle 500,000 years ago

http://www.nature.com/news/homo-erectus-made-world-s-oldest-doodle-500-000-years-ago-1.16477

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 29 comments
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