top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-16

Farewell, Dr. Dobb's

http://www.drdobbs.com/240169421

12 years ago

1029 upvotes – 320 comments

Android: I don't need your permission

http://blog.danlew.net/2014/11/26/i-dont-need-your-permission/

12 years ago

540 upvotes – 183 comments

Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions

http://robertheaton.com/2014/12/08/fun-with-your-friends-facebook-and-tinder-session-tokens/

12 years ago

488 upvotes – 55 comments

BPG Image Comparison

http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#soccer-players&webp=s&bpg=s

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 123 comments

Post mortem of my one game a month

http://www.usebox.net/jjm/one-game-a-month/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 65 comments

NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4413

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 101 comments

A redesign of the Django websites

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/dec/15/announcing-django-website-redesign/

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 97 comments

Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap

http://www.magicleap.com/#/blog

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 162 comments

Bitcoin Developer Guide

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 71 comments

You Don't Need JQuery

http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 192 comments

Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/federal-court-agrees-eff-throws-out-six-weeks-warrantless-video-surveillance

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 104 comments

The most popular web sites every year since 1996

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/15/from-lycos-to-ask-jeeves-to-facebook-tracking-the-20-most-popular-web-sites-every-year-since-1996/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 102 comments

New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up

http://observer.com/2014/12/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-genius-investor-made-it-all-up/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 132 comments

Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-16/apple-stops-online-sales-in-russia-over-ruble-fluctuations.html

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 176 comments

The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/fbi-metasploit-tor/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 55 comments

Amazon's Jeff Bezos on profits, failure, succession, big bets

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazons-jeff-bezos-on-profits-failure-succession-big-bets-2014-12

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 38 comments

NASA’s $349M monument to its drift

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/15/nasas-349-million-monument-to-its-drift/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

Freebase is closing down; data going to WikiData

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/freebase-discuss/s_BPoL92edc/Y585r7_2E1YJ

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 36 comments

Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G6RChOLrTA

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 20 comments

An Update to End-To-End

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-to-end-to-end.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Earth API has been deprecated

https://developers.google.com/earth/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

New Zealand’s crusade to rid itself of mammals

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/big-kill

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 90 comments

Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries

https://medium.com/@Shapiro/introducing-libscore-com-be93165fa497

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

UNSW researchers set record in solar energy efficiency

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/unsw-researchers-set-world-record-solar-energy-efficiency

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Things We Believe After Building Maptia

https://medium.com/founder-stories/ten-things-we-believe-2c85c462d508

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

Clever (YC S12) Gets $30M to Become the Login Layer for Education Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/16/clever-30m-lightspeed/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

Student Doodles from the Middle Ages

http://www.studio360.org/story/student-doodles-middle-ages/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

Summary of Golang Generics Discussion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX4pi-HnNjkMEgyAHX4N4/edit#

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 146 comments

Four Areas of Legal Ripe for Disruption by Smart Startups

http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2014/12/smart-startups/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger

http://www.mongodb.com/press/wired-tiger

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Year of the Beagle

http://beagleboard.org/blog/2014-12-14-year-of-the-beagle/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

On Delta, you can change the URL of your boarding pass and get someone else’s

https://medium.com/@thedanigrant/need-a-last-minute-flight-45af88ec8df3

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

600613

http://bit-player.org/2014/600613

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Creating a custom Git flow visualization

http://blog.funda.nl/creating-a-custom-git-flow-visualization/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics

http://priceonomics.com/hipster-business-models-a-new-book-by-priceonomics/?=1

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner

https://github.com/alanfranz/killmesoftly

12 years ago

★ 131 Makefile
58 upvotes – 53 comments

What I Learned about Tech and Business from Tyler Perry

http://gosier.org/post/105359991093/what-i-learned-about-tech-and-business-from-tyler

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Supler: Web forms development made easier

http://www.warski.org/blog/2014/12/supler-0-1-0-complex-forms-made-easier/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

WeWork: Now a $5B Co-Working Startup

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-now-a-5-billion-real-estate-sartup-1418690163

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All

http://www.wired.com/2014/02/julia/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 56 comments

Microsoft has been making quality assurance mistakes lately

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2859902/at-microsoft-quality-seems-to-be-job-none.html#linkedin

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 58 comments
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