top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-12-17

Linus Torvalds on semaphores (1999)

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/semaphores.html

12 years ago

349 upvotes – 104 comments

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 276 comments

A tiling window manager written in Rust

https://github.com/Kintaro/wtftw

12 years ago

★ 2.3k Rust BSD-3-Clause
325 upvotes – 170 comments

Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/obama-to-announce-u-s-cuba-relations-shift-as-gross-is-released.html

12 years ago

324 upvotes – 264 comments

Falcon 9 attempts ocean platform landing

http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/12/16/x-marks-spot-falcon-9-attempts-ocean-platform-landing

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 100 comments

Linux kernel: multiple x86_64 vulnerabilities

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1052

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 64 comments

Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/business/theater-chains-decline-to-show-sonys-the-interview-citing-threats-.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 256 comments

CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/blatant-csrf-in-doorkeeper-most-popular.html

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 79 comments

Dissent – Accountable anonymous group communication

http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 25 comments

A look inside Facebook's source code

http://sintheticlabs.com/blog/a-look-inside-facebooks-source-code.html

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 50 comments
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