top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-15

How You Know

http://paulgraham.com/know.html

12 years ago

686 upvotes – 257 comments

Good News You May Have Missed in 2014

http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2014

12 years ago

656 upvotes – 114 comments

Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation

https://graemereynolds.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/hyphen-hate-when-amazon-went-to-war-against-punctuation/

12 years ago

489 upvotes – 172 comments

Map the Banks

http://mapthebanks.com/

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 96 comments

Programming and Programming Languages

http://papl.cs.brown.edu/2014/

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 63 comments

Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles

http://modlabupenn.org/underactuated-rotor/

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 81 comments

Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices

http://ergoso.me/computer/science/github/software/evolutionary/couplings/2014/12/10/evsrc-evolutionary-couplings-reveal-poor-software-design.html

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 82 comments

Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-question

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 89 comments

Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 85 comments

How GPUs Work

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gfx/papers/paper.php?paper_id=59

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 53 comments

For my final project I built a sous-vide immersion cooker

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/people/matthew_arbesfeld/2014/12/14/final-project/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 137 comments

Coq: The world’s best macro assembler? (2013) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pdf

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 61 comments

Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

http://www.duetdisplay.com

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 112 comments

Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 82 comments

Comparing Rust and C++

http://kukuruku.co/hub/rust/comparing-rust-and-cpp

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 133 comments

A New Physics Theory of Life

http://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/#ixzz3Lw5rbLPe

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 94 comments

Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time?

http://www.cheapair.com/blog/travel-tips/air-fares-101-why-do-fares-change-all-the-time/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 186 comments

France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/business/international/france-says-it-will-ban-ubers-low-cost-service-in-new-year.html?_r=0

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 138 comments

An experimental, automatically generated set of AWS clients in Go

https://github.com/stripe/aws-go

12 years ago

★ 8.6k Go Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 44 comments

Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku

http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

Half the papers at NIPS would be rejected if the review process were rerun

http://mrtz.org/blog/the-nips-experiment/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams

https://github.com/josteink/wsd-mode

12 years ago

★ 344 Emacs Lisp MIT
136 upvotes – 22 comments

Confidentiality at FastMail

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/security-confidentiality/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 53 comments

Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/memory/effectivemanagement/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

Moonjs: Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

http://www.svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor

http://phantomjs-pad.ozaur.com/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects

http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/projects.html

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

Americans are 40% poorer than before the recession

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-are-40-poorer-than-before-the-recession-2014-12-12

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 89 comments

IBM Design Language

http://www.ibm.com/design/language/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 43 comments

Larry Lessig’s Long Walk

https://medium.com/backchannel/larry-lessigs-long-walk-b96d80d34972

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft lawyer prepares to take on US government

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/14/privacy-is-not-dead-microsoft-lawyer-brad-smith-us-government

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: November 2014

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/12/01/dolphin-progress-report-november-2014/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel?

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/christmas-lights-series-parallel/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain

http://hackaday.com/2014/12/15/home-computers-behind-the-iron-curtain/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Imposter Syndrome

http://blog.42floors.com/imposter-syndrome/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/pixelsim/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

MIT Scratch – Teach kids to program stories, games, and animations

https://scratch.mit.edu

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Functional Geometry

http://shashi.github.io/ijulia-notebooks/funcgeo/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

My Previous Startup Accelerator Is Bullying Me and Threatening Me

http://palestinianstartup.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-previous-startup-accelerator-is.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Popular Myths about C++, Part 2

http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-2

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 91 comments

In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/13/370592433/in-wisconsin-a-decade-old-police-shooting-leads-to-new-law?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Before Detroit Can Move On, It Needs to Upgrade from Windows XP

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/before-detroit-can-move-on-it-needs-to-upgrade-from-windows-xp

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3409

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Why buffered writes are sometimes stalled

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-buffered-writes-are-sometimes.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors

http://evelinag.com/blog/2014/12-15-christmas-carol-and-other-eigenvectors/index.html#.VI9OjOpGjUY

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

Google's common Java, C++ and Javascript library for phone numbers

https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber

12 years ago

★ 17.9k C++ Apache-2.0
68 upvotes – 11 comments

The 80/20 rule for storage systems

http://www.cohodata.com/blog/2014/12/10/8020-rule-storage-systems/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Facebook data visualizer

http://jackhanford.com/facebook-data-visualizer

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Passive WiFi Tracking

http://edwardkeeble.com/2014/02/passive-wifi-tracking/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

A panoramic tour of Factor

http://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Making Postgres coding and testing fun

https://github.com/itissid/pypgTAP

12 years ago

★ 105 PLpgSQL
55 upvotes – 5 comments

Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0113879

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 38 comments

Ars Technica Was Hacked

http://arstechnica.com/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Bit Twiddling Hacks (2005)

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Bioinformatics and the joy of Perl6

http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/day-15-bioinformatics-and-the-joy-of-perl6/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: I'm having doubts about LastPass security, what should I switch to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753534

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 64 comments

Uber backtracks after jacking up prices during Sydney hostage crisis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/15/uber-backtracks-after-jacking-up-prices-during-syndey-hostage-crisis/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 72 comments
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