top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-14

“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”

http://imgur.com/gallery/hRf2trV

12 years ago

Bad Microsoft

http://badmicrosoft.com/

12 years ago

My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/200317/

12 years ago

Air Traffic Control Simulator

http://zlsa.github.io/atc/

12 years ago

A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-plane-will-be-able-to-fly-anywhere-in-the-world-within-4-hours

12 years ago

The drug revolution that no one can stop

https://medium.com/matter-archive/the-drug-revolution-that-no-one-can-stop-19f753fb15e0

12 years ago

CIA agents who tortured are vulnerable to prosecution in any country

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/12/cia-agents-who-tortured-are-vulnerable-to-prosecution-in-any-country-in-the-world-says-u-n-official/

12 years ago

Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming

https://github.com/i2y/mochi

12 years ago

★ 914 Python MIT

Skinny Puppy demands royalties from US govt for using their music in Guantanamo

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/12/skinny_puppy_de.html

12 years ago

KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators

http://www.knightos.org/?sneaky-repost

12 years ago

Stack Exchange for Emacs

https://github.com/vermiculus/sx.el/

12 years ago

★ 715 Emacs Lisp

ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer

http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

12 years ago

The Story of Apollo 17 and Why We Never Went Back to the Moon

http://io9.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448?curator=MediaREDEF

12 years ago

Why Are Psychedelics Illegal?

http://www.vice.com/read/why-are-psychedelics-illegal-368

12 years ago

The Intel Enigma

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/12/14/the-intel-enigma/

12 years ago

VRAMfs – VRAM based file system for Linux

https://github.com/Overv/vramfs

12 years ago

★ 1.5k C++

Mathematical Analysis of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Chord

http://www.kevinhouston.net/blog/2014/12/the-beatles-magical-mystery-chord-2/

12 years ago

Advanced programming languages (2009)

http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

12 years ago

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

12 years ago

ARrgh: a newcomer's angry guide to R (2013)

http://tim-smith.us/arrgh/index.html

12 years ago

Why Edward Snowden thinks Amazon is “morally irresponsible.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/13/why-edward-snowden-thinks-amazon-is-morally-irresponsible/?tid=pm_business_pop

12 years ago

The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/the-audacious-rescue-plan-that-might-have-saved-space-shuttle-columbia/1/

12 years ago

Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDBM Database

https://erickt.github.io/blog/2014/12/13/rust-and-mdbm/

12 years ago

The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease [pdf]

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/3/475.full.pdf

12 years ago

Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality

12 years ago

Working remotely for extroverts

http://hoppycow.com/2014/12/13/dear-mjbrender-working-remotely-for-extroverts/

12 years ago

Elliptic curve arithmetic and cryptography library in Rust

https://github.com/Bren2010/ecc

12 years ago

★ 94 Rust MIT

Fast integer overflow detection (2012)

http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/16/fast-integer-overflow-detection/

12 years ago