879
551
US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf
12 years ago
650
147
Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1434
598
121
Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
http://getskeleton.com
375
167
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/
265
153
Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/obama-becomes-first-president-write-computer-program/
256
56
You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
http://entire.spacebar.org
244
74
MIT students build a roller coaster in one week
http://monograph.io/eastcampus/2014-mit-east-campus-coaster
229
145
Show HN: Artful for Mac
http://artfulmac.com/features
220
60
Lazy Expert Syndrome
http://riskology.co/lazy-expert-syndrome/
216
50
Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system
https://github.com/ReCaptchaReverser/InsideReCaptcha
186
113
ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide
http://fr.slideshare.net/_TheFamily/paris-isback-indextf
183
Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897
173
35
Random in the wild
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/random-in-the-wild
169
90
Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup
https://plus.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik/posts/ahSpGgohSDo
162
106
Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp
http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/why-we-should-stop-using-grunt/
158
52
Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police
http://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-general-assembly-revives-recording-ban/
156
68
Flying with Machine Guns?
http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/12/05/flying-with-machine-guns/
155
65
5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#5percent
32
Moss Graffiti
http://wonderfulengineering.com/using-a-blender-this-guy-executes-the-coolest-but-most-illegal-diy-project-ever-brilliant/
150
19
Troll-Proofed Defensive Patent License Launches with 23 Patents
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/troll-proofed-defensive-patent-license-launches-23-patents-eff-cofounder
146
31
SpamMimic: encode your message into something innocent-looking
http://www.spammimic.com/explain.shtml
134
89
The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2014/12/The-Infamous-Windows-Hello-World-Program.html
125
4
The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first
http://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
123
69
Twitch acquires eSports pro-gaming team Evil Geniuses
http://www.goodgame.gg/twitch/index.html
120
87
Simplicity and Utility, or Why SOAP Lost
http://keithba.net/simplicity-and-utility-or-why-soap-lost
Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724784
112
37
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
103
28
App Container Spec One Week In
https://coreos.com/blog/appc-one-week-in/
141
Popular Myths about C++, Part 1
http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-1
102
58
Uber banned in Spain
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30395093?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
100
51
Why Math Might Be the Secret to School Success
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/12/09/367814446/why-math-might-be-the-secret-to-school-success
93
15
The world's best online Jacob-dating service
http://jakedate.com
92
34
Wikileaks Movie “The Fifth Estate” Pirated My “Xbox Hacking” Slides
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=676
12
An analysis of the Super Street Fighter IV game balance
http://ryuuko.cl/post/104724306802/from-game-balance-and-meta-game-to-matchup
91
On Interviewing as a Junior Dev
http://lizmrush.com/on-interviewing/
85
84
RMS on why Emacs lisp doesn't have namespaces
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00907.html
73
Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/day-9-data-munging-in-perl-6-vs-perl-5/
82
Robots, Not Humans, Fake 23% of Web Video Ad Views, Study Finds
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-09/robots-not-humans-fake-23-of-web-video-ad-views-study-finds.html
25
Segment is giving away free Watsi gift cards
https://watsi.org/happy-holidays/
80
47
OVH raises $327M to accelerate its international development
http://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp1662.to-accelerate-its-international-development-ovh-raises-327-million
14
Bill Gates: Best book I read in 2014 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXf-qI32rOw&list=UUnEiGCE13SUI7ZvojTAVBKw#b12g0820t14w
After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to English. Here is why
http://meshedsociety.com/fighting-the-language-fragmentation/
67
53
Amazon to Let Shoppers Bargain for Lower Prices with New “Make an Offer” Option
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/09/amazon-to-let-shoppers-bargain-for-lower-prices-with-new-make-an-offer-option/
21
Satellite Eyes – Change your Mac desktop to a map of where you are
http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk
64
48
The world’s longest train journey now begins in China
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/21/map-the-worlds-longest-train-journey-now-begins-in-china/
10
Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-torture-report.html
63
City of Portland sues Uber
http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32557-the_city_of_portland_sues_uber.html
59
Programmable Materials
http://monograph.io/selfassembly/programmable-materials
57
5
The Pirate Bay down, forever?
http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/
29
There is no fold
http://thereisnofold.tumblr.com/
Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
http://nautil.us/blog/mood-ringcell-phones-can-hear-depression-in-peoples-voices
13
ReactJS in Java Hello World
http://aryweb.nl/2014/12/09/ReactJS-in-Java-Hello-World/
55
98
Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721379
7
Geoff Hinton AMA – Deep Learning's Biological Inspiration
http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2lmo0l/ama_geoffrey_hinton
18
Lenticrypt: A Provably Plausibly Deniable Cryptosystem
http://www.sultanik.com/blog/lenticrypt
6
Fighting patent trolls with the LOT Network
https://github.com/blog/1936-fighting-patent-trolls-with-the-lot-network
49
Is Preventive Medicine Its Own Health Risk?
http://aeon.co/magazine/health/is-preventive-medicine-its-own-health-risk
46
Metaprogramming with ECMAScript 6 proxies
http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/es6-proxies.html
45
61
Why are objects so hard to debug?
https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/why-are-objects-so-hard-to-debug
