top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-06

The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]

https://www.gmo.com/America/CMSAttachmentDownload.aspx?target=JUBRxi51IIBoe1yul9uERnfCmQoglFl9k5qwJSfHx8w%2fWCnFLmEb2MC9GoFnZVlslR5NzCRY1ajgn503icBv67VQg%2fNVUMWsYvi3A2%2fL%2bS28A7Pthjp7LmOfLYQfHMJc

12 years ago

Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710006

12 years ago

A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft

http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/?

12 years ago

America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/a10-warthog-isis/

12 years ago

Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2014/12/01/nigerian-billionaire-tony-elumelu-commits-100-million-to-create-10000-african-entrepreneurs-in-10-years/

12 years ago

XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/

12 years ago

California drought most severe in 1,200 years, study says

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-drought-worst-20141205-story.html

12 years ago

IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

http://www.ibm.com/analytics/watson-analytics/

12 years ago

Clean OS reinstalls with propellor

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/clean_OS_reinstalls_with_propellor/

12 years ago

The World Cracks Down on the Internet

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/world-cracks-internet

12 years ago

No value: Investing, CEO pay and the economy

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2014/12/investing-ceo-pay-and-economy

12 years ago

über vs. Uber

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/opinion/joe-nocera-uber-vs-uber.html

12 years ago

Confessions of a mortician

https://medium.com/matter/confessions-of-a-mortician-7a8c061bbda3

12 years ago

HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins

http://blog.zencoder.com/2014/07/28/html5-video-and-the-end-of-plugins-recording-uploading-and-transcoding-video-straight-from-the-browser/

12 years ago

Grow Your Own Picture – Genetic Algorithms and Generative Art

http://chriscummins.cc/s/genetics/

12 years ago

Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-first-employee-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-bill-fernandez/

12 years ago

Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing

https://github.com/antirez/shapeme

12 years ago

★ 395 C BSD-2-Clause

Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/26

12 years ago

Pathfinding for Tower Defense

http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/

12 years ago

Ewww, You Use PHP? [2010]

https://blog.mailchimp.com/ewww-you-use-php/

12 years ago