top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-05

BPG Image format

http://bellard.org/bpg/

12 years ago

843 upvotes – 328 comments

Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more

http://andyadams.org/you-can-charge-more/

12 years ago

395 upvotes – 203 comments

Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/io-js/?hn

12 years ago

320 upvotes – 152 comments

Interview with Laura Poitras

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/01/laura-poitras-on-finding-edward-snowden-obama-s-tainted-legacy-and-oliver-stone-s-snowden-film.html

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 102 comments

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Pacific After Test Flight

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/science/nasa-orion-spacecraft-lifts-off-into-orbit.html?ref=science&_r=0

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 141 comments

A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month

http://cmcenroe.me/2014/12/05/days-in-month-formula.html

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 106 comments

Firefox for iOS on GitHub

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios

12 years ago

★ 12.9k Swift MPL-2.0
207 upvotes – 142 comments

Run to Stay Young

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/run-to-stay-young/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 116 comments

A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions

http://danluu.com/malloc-tutorial/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 19 comments

Lyft for Work

https://www.lyft.com/work

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 64 comments

Intro to statistical data analysis in Python – frequentist and Bayesian methods

http://ipython-books.github.io/featured-07/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 15 comments

Github may block content if they receive a valid request from Roskomnadzor

https://github.com/github/roskomnadzor

12 years ago

★ 378
187 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming

https://codewords.hackerschool.com/

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 71 comments

Orion Flight Test Live Launch

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VIGQsGTF9d0

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 91 comments

Why I like XSLT

https://guy-murphy.github.io/2014/12/02/why-I-like-XSLT/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 91 comments

Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 166 comments

Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-12-05/musk-battery-works-fill-utilities-with-fear-and-promise.html

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Collapse HN Comments

https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse

12 years ago

★ 24 JavaScript MIT
141 upvotes – 57 comments

Apple CoreGraphics framework logging input data to /tmp

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-90/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 22 comments

Chris Hughes Purges The New Republic

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/05/the-new-republic-implodes.html

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 75 comments

Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/04/rovio-110-redundancies

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

Introducing Varnish Massive Storage Engine

https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/introducing-varnish-massive-storage-engine

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-america-is-now-no-2-2014-12-04?link=sfmw_fb

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 136 comments

Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/12/05/academia-as-an-anxiety-machine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daniel-lemire%2Fatom+%28Daniel+Lemire%27s+blog%29

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

British Court Says Government’s Electronic Surveillance Is Legal

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/world/europe/british-court-says-governments-electronic-surveillance-is-legal.html?ref=technology

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

I Love Julia

http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2014/12/04/i-heart-julia/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 57 comments

A Data Analyst's Blog Is Transforming How New Yorkers See Their City

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/28/367046864/a-data-analysts-blog-is-transforming-how-new-yorkers-see-their-city

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 11 comments

Chaos Computer Club Website Blocked by UK ISPs

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2014/ccc-censored-in-uk

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

Prison book ban ruled unlawful by High Court

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30344867

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Leaving Academia (2013)

http://jakobegger.at/2013/leaving-academia.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 74 comments

Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/quantum_attack_.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Instacart Is Raising North of $100M at a $2B Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/instacart-2b-kleiner/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (1992)

http://books.google.com/books?id=RJBJPJvct40C&lpg=PA42&ots=fwEreQYWde&dq=fractal%20compression%20resolution%20independent&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Chiral Key Found to Origin of Life

http://www.quantamagazine.org/20141126-why-rna-is-right-handed/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Tesla’s electric man

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21635332-jb-straubel-charged-more-electrifying-californian-carmaker-he

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Lecture 20: Later-Stage Advice

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec20/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: SWAPI – A Star Wars API

http://swapi.co

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman's Case Against NSA Spying

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-hear-oral-arguments-idaho-womans-case-against-nsa-spying

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

If Data You Have, Consume It They Will

http://phalt.co/if-you-have-data-they-will-consume-it/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-police-in-america-are-becoming-illegitimate-20141205

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Antha – A high-level language for biology

http://www.antha-lang.org/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

The New Messenger App from Google

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 54 comments

New Startup Sets Out to Bring Google-Style AI to the Masses

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/new-startup-sets-bring-google-style-ai-masses/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Pluto: a first concurrent web server in Gallina

http://coq-blog.clarus.me/pluto-a-first-concurrent-web-server-in-gallina.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Zelkova – Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript

https://github.com/jamesmacaulay/zelkova?again

12 years ago

★ 401 Clojure MIT
58 upvotes – 18 comments

Linux Containers: Parallels, LXC, OpenVZ, Docker and More

http://aucouranton.com/2014/06/13/linux-containers-parallels-lxc-openvz-docker-and-more/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

'Good news day' decimates website's readership

http://m.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30318261

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography (2007) [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800972p.pdf

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-price-reduction/?sc_ichannel=EM&sc_icountry=global&sc_icampaigntype=launch&sc_icampaign=EM_128506540&sc_idetail=em_1778261631&ref_=pe_411040_128506540_12

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments
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