top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-08

Android Studio 1.0

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/android-studio-10.html

12 years ago

725 upvotes – 227 comments

The Fatal Pinch

http://paulgraham.com/pinch.html

12 years ago

480 upvotes – 198 comments

Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-india-rape-uber-idUSKBN0JM0CE20141208

12 years ago

358 upvotes – 207 comments

Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society

http://ncase.me/polygons/

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 86 comments

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-maps-ground-truth

12 years ago

340 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716111

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 284 comments

We Can't Trust Uber

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/we-cant-trust-uber.html

12 years ago

318 upvotes – 126 comments

Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/powerful-highly-stealthy-linux-trojan-may-have-infected-victims-for-years/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 99 comments

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

https://github.com/0intro/plan9

12 years ago

★ 880 C MIT
272 upvotes – 88 comments

Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/why-im-giving-up-my-american-citizenship-passport.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 277 comments

At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services

http://www.panic.com/blog/transmit-ios-1-1-1/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 98 comments

Postgres full-text search is good enough

http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 57 comments

Suicide has surpassed war as the leading cause of US military deaths

http://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2014/10/31/suicide-deaths-us-military-war-study/18261185/

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 83 comments

Yik Yak Hack

http://silverskylabs.github.io/yakhak/

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 69 comments

Golang on GitHub

https://github.com/golang/go

12 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
220 upvotes – 106 comments

Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

http://www.thebluehouse.io/blog/2014/9/2/move-your-startup-to-a-moroccan-fishing-town

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 150 comments

Should I Get a Ph.D.?

http://shouldigetaphd.com/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 158 comments

Squire: FastMail’s rich text editor

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/08/squire-fastmails-rich-text-editor/

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 48 comments

The U.S. Government Has a Secret System for Stalling Patents

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-u-s-government-has-a-secret-system-for-104249688314.html

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 70 comments

The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it

http://pchiusano.github.io/2014-12-08/failed-software-economics

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 119 comments

MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 136 comments

Node.js is forked, not fucked

http://wesleyio.tumblr.com/post/104637877991/node-js-is-forked-not-f-ed

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4AaGQIo0HY

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 9 comments

Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS and $36M in Funding

https://gigaom.com/2014/12/07/mesospheres-new-data-center-mother-brain-will-blow-your-mind/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

Transcriptic for YC biotech startups

http://blog.ycombinator.com/transcriptic

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

Antivirus Companies Shouldn’t Have Hidden What They Knew About Regin

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/533136/antivirus-companies-should-be-more-open-about-their-government-malware-discoveries/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=facebook

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 65 comments

If Eventual Consistency Seems Hard, Wait Till You Try MVCC

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/12/08/eventual-consistency-simpler-than-mvcc/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 48 comments

Wireless in Gaza: the young entrepreneurs beating the blockades

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/gaza-young-entrepreneurs-web-based-startups

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? [pdf]

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume15/delgado14a/delgado14a.pdf

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 7 comments

Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/08/errplane-snags-8-1m-to-continue-building-open-source-influxdb-time-database/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (1996)

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

How to Be Intoxicated

http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Be-Intoxicated/150239/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

The Dot-Com Bust’s Worst Flops Were Actually Fantastic Ideas

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/da-bom/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 81 comments

Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

http://census.socialexplorer.com/young-adults/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 80 comments

The POODLE bites again

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/12/08/poodleagain.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

An Open Love Letter to Our PC Fans

http://www.ironhidegames.com/post.php?id=103

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 101 comments

Docker at Lyst

http://developers.lyst.com/devops/2014/12/08/docker/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Scaling email transparency

https://stripe.com/blog/scaling-email-transparency

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Why are deep neural networks hard to train?

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap5.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Language is not important

http://coffeenco.de/articles/language_is_not_important.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

California drought, visualized with open data

http://cida.usgs.gov/ca_drought/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

iOS 8 Debugging Case Study

http://www.objc.io/issue-19/debugging-case-study.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Introducing Traveling Ruby

http://phusion.github.io/traveling-ruby/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Docker extensions: the new Docker plugins model

https://clusterhq.com/blog/docker-extensions/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Uber’s Worst Screw-Ups

http://techcrunch.com/gallery/ubers-worst-screw-ups/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

What is the “minimal” set of primitives needed for a Lisp interpreter?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/part1/faq-doc-6.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

YawnDb: Time Series Database Written in Erlang

http://kukuruku.co/hub/erlang/yawndb-time-series-database

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Almost all numbers contain the digit “3” [video]

http://www.numberphile.com/videos/three.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments

DDoS Attack Against Default DNS System v2

http://status.namecheap.com/archives/17727

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

Give or receive 1 hour of coding help in 2015

https://hackpledge.org/?hn

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Type systems and logic

https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/type-systems-and-logic

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

High Speed Robot Hand Dexterity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR1lIOlg0CY

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Option and null in dynamic languages

https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/option-and-null-in-dynamic-languages

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

Prince – Modern password guessing algorithm [pdf]

http://hashcat.net/tools/princeprocessor/prince-attack.pdf

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Violating randomization standards

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/39839

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 41 comments

“Mr. Windows” Bets Big on the Mesosphere Datacenter OS

http://readwrite.com/2014/12/08/mesos-mesosphere-datacenter-os-brad-silverberg-q-and-a

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30379825

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Ticket to Dine

https://medium.com/backchannel/buying-tickets-to-restaurants-114e5b9c768f

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments
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