top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-10

Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy

http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

12 years ago

Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2014-December/002510.html

12 years ago

Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass

http://www.keurighack.com/

12 years ago

The Pirate Bay down, forever?

http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/

12 years ago

What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?

http://pudo.org/blog/2014/12/03/newsclipse.html

12 years ago

Databases at 14.4Mhz

http://blog.foundationdb.com/databases-at-14.4mhz

12 years ago

Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (2010)

http://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-on-his-che-career

12 years ago

Rosetta finds comet's water vapour to be significantly different from Earth's

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_fuels_debate_on_origin_of_Earth_s_oceans

12 years ago

Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools

http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.14.elm

12 years ago

24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions

http://archimago.blogspot.com/2014/06/24-bit-vs-16-bit-audio-test-part-ii.html

12 years ago

Material Design for Bootstrap

http://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/

12 years ago

Atlas by Hashicorp

https://atlas.hashicorp.com

12 years ago

When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole

http://engineering.clever.com/2014/12/10/when-your-ip-traffic-in-aws-disappears-into-a-black-hole/

12 years ago

Scientific Peer Review Is Broken – Fighting to Fix It with Anonymity

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/pubpeer-fights-for-anonymity/

12 years ago

Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6L6XeNdd_k

12 years ago

Wouldn't it be fun to build your own Google?

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/12/wouldnt-it-be-fun-to-build-your-own-google.html

12 years ago

What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger

http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2014/12/09/what-doesnt-kill-me-makes-me-stronger/

12 years ago

San Francisco and L.A. sue Uber

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27102694/biz-break-san-francisco-and-l-sue-uber

12 years ago

Techstars to open up shop in Detroit

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20141210/BLOG007/141219993/techstars-to-open-shop-in-detroit

12 years ago

The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js

https://nodesource.com/blog/node-desktop-applications

12 years ago

PresidentObama on GitHub

https://github.com/presidentobama

12 years ago

A City That Is Moving 9 Kilometers Down the Road

http://nextcity.org/features/view/the-city-that-is-moving-9-kilometers-down-the-road

12 years ago

Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DqxkNi4GvyTCu54usSdE1DjW29zw1tc52iMeH3z4heg/viewform?c=0&w=1

12 years ago

High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed by Sulphur Hydride

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/high-temperature-superconductivity-record-smashed-by-sulphur-hydride-c853795079bb

12 years ago

Hidden Costs of Memory Allocation

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/hidden-costs-of-memory-allocation/

12 years ago

OCaml 4.01 for iOS 8

http://psellos.com/2014/12/2014.12.ocaml-ios8.html

12 years ago

Speeding Up PostgreSQL with Partial Indexes

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/speeding-up-postgresql-with-partial-indexes/

12 years ago

Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as Treatment for Depression

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/special-k-a-hallucinogen-raises-hopes-and-concerns-as-a-treatment-for-depression.html

12 years ago

The story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7341077/nypd-harlem-crews-social-media-rikers-prison

12 years ago

Physically Based Rendering Comes to WebGL

http://blog.playcanvas.com/physically-based-rendering-comes-to-webgl/

12 years ago

Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141210-prime-gap-grows-after-decades-long-lull/

12 years ago

Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim

http://adamdelong.com/two-simple-steps-helped-me-learn-vim/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Is there any part-time dev jobs listing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8729888

12 years ago

Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Recommended Readings

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Recommended_Readings

12 years ago

Bit451 – Decentralized, distributed anonymous P2P media network

http://bit451.org

12 years ago

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens

12 years ago

Show HN: Buttercoin (YC S13) US Bitcoin Marketplace – Free Trading Through Dec

https://buttercoin.com/#/setup?r=D6YDrSLZ6GX

12 years ago

Airbus crypto challenge write-up

http://cryptologie.net/article/182/airbus-crypto-challenge-write-up/

12 years ago

iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/irobot-announces-create-2-an-updated-hackable-roomba#.VIhxkpKzS9U.hackernews

12 years ago

Mysterious 2008 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-10/mysterious-08-turkey-pipeline-blast-opened-new-cyberwar.html

12 years ago

James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/james-watson-s-nobel-prize-sold-at-auction-will-be-returned-to-him-1.2866994

12 years ago

Debugging in the Time of JITs

http://rfrn.org/~shu/2014/05/14/debugging-in-the-time-of-jits.html

12 years ago

Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/pirate-bay-raided-taken-down/

12 years ago

What’s the Matter with Boston Tech?

http://recode.net/2014/12/10/whats-the-matter-with-boston-tech/

12 years ago

Writing a Phase-locked Loop in Straight C

http://liquidsdr.org/blog/pll-howto/

12 years ago

The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output

http://camlorn.net/posts/december2014/horror-of-audio-output.html

12 years ago

How to Be a Good Graduate Student (1994)

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

12 years ago

Automatically making sense of data

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/12/automatically-making-sense-of-data.html

12 years ago

How One Woman's Discovery Shook the Foundations of Geology

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60481/how-one-womans-discovery-shook-foundations-geology

12 years ago

In Seattle, a Sinking Feeling About a Troubled Tunnel

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/us/in-seattle-a-sinking-feeling-about-a-troubled-tunnel.html

12 years ago

Cue – Discover yourself

https://cue.me

12 years ago

Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/12/10Apple-and-IBM-Deliver-First-Wave-of-IBM-MobileFirst-for-iOS-Apps.html

12 years ago

The Ins and Outs of the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100M Dataset

http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/15/the-ins-and-outs-of-the-yahoo-flickr-100-million-creative-commons-dataset/

12 years ago

Atlas Beta – The new learning environment from O’Reilly

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/tags/featured

12 years ago

Seizing Control of Yahoo Mail Cross-Origin Again

http://blog.saynotolinux.com/blog/2014/12/09/seizing-control-of-yahoo-mail-cross-origin-again/

12 years ago

What Colour are your bits? (2004)

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23/

12 years ago

Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-internet-we-build-next/

12 years ago

Show HN: What's My Chain Cert?

https://whatsmychaincert.com/

12 years ago

Confessions of a Pregnant CEO

http://fortune.com/2014/12/10/confessions-of-a-pregnant-ceo-3-ways-im-working-differently/

12 years ago

A DIY Astro Tracker in Two Nights

http://kukuruku.co/hub/diy/diy-an-astro-tracker-in-two-nights

12 years ago

Swift Performance: Too Slow for Production

http://blog.sudeium.com/2014/12/10/swift-performance-too-slow-for-production/

12 years ago

What I Like About PHP

http://coding.simon.geek.nz/2014/12/10/what-i-like-about-php/

12 years ago

The Creepy New Wave of the Internet

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/creepy-new-wave-internet/?

12 years ago

Myths of Enterprise Python

https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/12/10/10-myths-of-enterprise-python/

12 years ago