698
110
Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284
12 years ago
370
157
Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning
http://pgbovine.net/programmers-talking-to-beginners.htm
288
39
Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)
http://stefan.saasen.me/articles/git-clone-in-haskell-from-the-bottom-up/
260
43
Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/people/jeff/CIKM-keynote-Nov2014.pdf
256
93
“This” in JavaScript
http://bjorn.tipling.com/all-this
243
171
The reason people burn out on open source
https://github.com/steveklabnik/emoji/issues/23
★ 444 Ruby MIT– 12 years ago
242
46
Valgrind is much more than a leak checking tool
http://maintainablecode.logdown.com/posts/245425-valgrind-is-not-a-leak-checker
209
96
Detroit by Air
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/exposures-detroit-by-air-alex-maclean.html
203
47
Make your program slower with threads
http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/12/06/random.html
191
19
Superconductivity without cooling?
http://www.mpg.de/8785897/superconductivity-room-temperature
53
Icdiff: side-by-side command line diffs
http://www.jefftk.com/icdiff
185
118
Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
http://danluu.com/discourage-oss
174
40
Interface Upgrades in Go
http://avtok.com/2014/11/05/interface-upgrades.html
A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup
https://medium.com/@ireneau/whimseybox-and-a-cautionary-tale-about-subscription-services-and-how-not-to-shut-down-a-startup-be1bd2c69ecd
160
21
Zusie – My Relay Computer
http://www.nablaman.com/relay/story.php
155
36
Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language
https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant
★ 2.9k C# MIT– 12 years ago
152
144
You can't dig upwards
http://www.evanmiller.org/you-cant-dig-upwards.html
145
60
ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video
http://silveiraneto.net/2014/12/07/imagemagick-four-point-perspective-distortion-in-a-video/
140
82
The Internet is Shit (2003)
http://www.internetisshit.org/print.html
128
52
How browsers get to know you in milliseconds
http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/12/how-browsers-get-to-know-you-in-milliseconds.html
123
Free Python Books
http://inventwithpython.com/bookshelf/
121
31
Endaga – Community Cellular Networks
http://www.endaga.com/
120
51
New Paypal gateway UI susceptible to spoofing
http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-paypal-gateway-ui-is-disaster.html
119
16
QEMU Advent Calendar 2014
http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/
117
15
Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/ralph-h-baer-dies-inventor-of-odyssey-first-system-for-home-video-games.html
107
18
RIP Go Seigen
https://gogameguru.com/rip-go-seigen/
100
27
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons/on-plutos-doorstep-new-horizons-spacecraft-awakens-for-encounter/#.VIPZ6R4Vg4R
13
International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out
https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
44
Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's Non-recursive Quicksort
http://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/
89
9
Statistical Learning
https://class.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesScience/StatLearning/Winter2014/about
85
50
What’s happening with Secret?
https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/whats-happening-with-secret/
84
26
Estonian e-residency
https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/
Our quantum problem
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/our-quantum-reality-problem/
80
90
When in Go, do as Gophers do
http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability.slide#1
75
OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (2013)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt
67
Sony saved thousands of passwords in a folder named 'Password'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/11274727/Sony-saved-thousands-of-passwords-in-a-folder-named-Password.html
64
22
Guile Emacs Todo
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsTodo
Rick Reed – WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TneLO5TdW_M#
57
14
Uber Confirms It Is Assisting Police in India Following an Alleged Rape
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/06/uber-confirms-it-is-assisting-police-in-india-following-an-alleged-rape/
122
U.S. Passenger Rail Ridership (2013)
http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/AmtrakRoutes
58
Please Offer an Excel Export Option
http://www.evanmiller.org/please-offer-an-excel-export-option.html
55
6
Founders at Work: Steve Wozniak
http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html