top 50% 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

379 upvotes – 131 comments

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

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

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 222 comments

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

http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/?

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 34 comments

America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane

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

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 217 comments

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

189 upvotes – 44 comments

XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain

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

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 151 comments

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

164 upvotes – 103 comments

IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 24 comments

Clean OS reinstalls with propellor

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

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 4 comments

The World Cracks Down on the Internet

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

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 24 comments

No value: Investing, CEO pay and the economy

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

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 44 comments

über vs. Uber

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

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 87 comments

Confessions of a mortician

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

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

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

126 upvotes – 42 comments

Grow Your Own Picture – Genetic Algorithms and Generative Art

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

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

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

122 upvotes – 16 comments

Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing

https://github.com/antirez/shapeme

12 years ago

★ 395 C BSD-2-Clause
111 upvotes – 16 comments

Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses

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

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Pathfinding for Tower Defense

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

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments

Ewww, You Use PHP? [2010]

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

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 102 comments

Do Small-RAM Devices Have a Future? (2011)

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/541

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 49 comments

SurgeMQ: MQTT Message Queue at 750,000 MPS

http://zhen.org/blog/surgemq-mqtt-message-queue-750k-mps/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Of Containers, Dockers, Rockets, and Daemons

http://3ofcoins.net/2014/12/06/of-containers-dockers-rockets-and-daemons/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

The JavaScript Trap

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 111 comments

Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/afghanistan-the-making-of-a-narco-state-20141204

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Safety, liveness and fault tolerance—the consensus choices

https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_tolerance_consensus_choice/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments

Groups and Group Convolutions

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-12-Groups-Convolution/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]

http://www.ubu.com/papers/Derrida-Interviews-Coleman_1997.pdf

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

A planet of suburbs

http://www.economist.com/suburbs

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments

Chaos Computer Club on the blocking of our website in UK

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

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: If you open source some code, are you responsible for maintaining it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710406

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 55 comments

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (2008)

http://research.swtch.com/sparse

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames per Second

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/quantum-algorithms-via-linear-algebra-2/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

Reading local files from Facebook's server (fixed)

http://josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com/2014/12/reading-local-files-from-facebooks.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments

Italy Now Home to World’s Deepest Swimming Pool

http://sourceable.net/italy-now-home-worlds-deepest-swimming-pool/#

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments
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