top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-11

Streem – a new programming language from Matz

http://github.com/matz/streem

12 years ago

★ 4.5k C MIT
547 upvotes – 189 comments

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo

http://threefingeredfox.net/?p=143

12 years ago

485 upvotes – 93 comments

Go 1.4 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.4

12 years ago

453 upvotes – 257 comments

Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Help/Right?helppagename=CSV_BitcoinHowTo.htm

12 years ago

416 upvotes – 148 comments

Google News to shut down in Spain

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 259 comments

Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/11/peter-sunde

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 357 comments

Comments on the Sony Hack

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/comments_on_the.html

12 years ago

302 upvotes – 181 comments

Evil Icons – Lightweight SVG icons for your web project

http://evil-icons.io

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Iota – a text editor written in Rust

https://github.com/gchp/iota

12 years ago

★ 1.6k Rust MIT
221 upvotes – 45 comments

The Other Money Problem

http://www.evanmiller.org/the-other-money-problem.html

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders

http://www.presslabs.com/gitfs/docs/

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 62 comments

McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/want-to-eat-like-a-teen-again-science-may-have-found-a-way-1.2862231

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 121 comments

Bay Area Storm Watch

http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/12/11/0900Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-115.81,34.51,1154

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

Donate to the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/donate/index.php

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 33 comments

What we wish we'd known before building the Prismatic Android app

https://github.com/nstevens/androidguide/wiki

12 years ago

★ 579
171 upvotes – 34 comments

Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/ford-ditches-microsoft-for-qnx-in-latest-in-vehicle-tech-platform/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 158 comments

15-line hash table in C

http://pastes.archbsd.net/graphitemaster/15_line_hashtable

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 97 comments

HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

http://hockeyapp.net/blog/2014/12/11/hockeyapp-joins-microsoft.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 64 comments

MDBM – High-speed database

http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/104861108931/mdbm-high-speed-database

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 111 comments

Bolt: A low-level key/value database for Go

https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

12 years ago

★ 14.6k Go MIT
155 upvotes – 46 comments

The Irregular Verbs (2000)

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2000_03_landfall.html

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 69 comments

DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper level

http://deepdive.stanford.edu/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 19 comments

The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21636033-united-states-needs-overhaul-its-law-enforcement-system-americas-police-trial

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 138 comments

Negative comments

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/64-negative-comments

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 83 comments

Workflow for iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id915249334?mt=8

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

Bootstrapping Rust

http://aidancully.blogspot.com/2014/12/bootstrapping-rust.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

The pilots of Instagram: violating rules of the air

http://qz.com/233165/the-pilots-of-instagram-beautiful-views-from-the-cockpit-violating-rules-of-the-air/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

http://touchstonejs.io/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Where to start on creating AI for games?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8734757

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Smartphone ≠ smart home

https://medium.com/@senic/smartphone-smart-home-3b5af00c1bfd

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

A concise introduction to category theory

http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/category+theory

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

An ASM Monad (2013)

http://wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Becoming an F# contributor

http://mrange.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/becoming-an-fsharp-contributor/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Analysis of Raft Consensus [pdf]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-857.pdf

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments

Asynchronous filesystem replication with FUSE and rsync

https://github.com/immobiliare/sfs

12 years ago

★ 280 C
76 upvotes – 43 comments

The Fall of Hacker Groups

http://www.phrack.com/papers/fall_of_groups.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Bone – Lightning Fast HTTP Multiplexer in Go

https://github.com/squiidz/bone

12 years ago

★ 3 Go MIT
72 upvotes – 22 comments

Cellphone searches upon arrest allowed by Canada's top court

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cellphone-searches-upon-arrest-allowed-by-canada-s-top-court-1.2869587

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/google-removes-amazons-app-listing-from-google-play-search-following-addition-of-appstore-instant-video-integrations/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Adult-onset diabetes, obesity cured in lab mice, scientists report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141208144404.htm

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

2014 LLVM Developers' Meeting: Slides and Videos

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-10/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Computer repair with the speed and reliability of FedEx

http://www.fedex.com/techmanager/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

Say hello to x86_64 Assembly [part 7]

http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/12/say-hello-to-x8664-assembly-part-7.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 0 comments

“The Imitation Game” and Alan Turing’s Real Contribution to Computing

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2014/12/The-Imitation-Game-and-Alan-Turings-Real-Contribution-to-Computing.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 51 comments

What does MoarVM do with your Perl 6 code?

http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/day-11-so-what-does-moarvm-do-with-your-perl-6-code/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Wrapping web APIs made easy

https://github.com/redodo/tortilla

12 years ago

★ 1.2k Python MIT
60 upvotes – 4 comments

Ancient doodle hints that Homo erectus was smarter than we thought

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/12/ancient-doodle-hints-that-homo-erectus-was-smarter-than-we-thought/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Recent Train Times

http://recenttraintimes.co.uk/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I Hate Object Orientated Programming (2010)

http://blog.jot.fm/2010/08/26/ten-things-i-hate-about-object-oriented-programming/comment-page-2/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 53 comments

Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit (2010) [pdf]

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dht-woot10.pdf

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-form-strategic-partnership/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

ASMR: The videos which claim to make their viewers 'tingle'

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30412358

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

Hello World, meet our new experimental toolchain, Jack and Jill

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/hello-world-meet-our-new-experimental.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Iridium satellite constellation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 43 comments

How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/facebook-knows-ads-influence-offline-purchases/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 47 comments

Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip Hop Archive

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/12/10/369841627/cornell-to-digitize-a-rich-hip-hop-archive

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks

http://lucidworks.com/blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky-networks/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Ivy, an APL-like calculator

https://github.com/robpike/ivy

12 years ago

★ 1.4k Go
47 upvotes – 6 comments
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