top 20 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

The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted to Buy Zilo (2012)

http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 56 comments

Securing the future of GnuPG

https://gnupg.org/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 52 comments

US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 104 comments

Final Root Cause Analysis of Nov 18 Azure Service Interruption

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/17/final-root-cause-analysis-and-improvement-areas-nov-18-azure-storage-service-interruption/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 70 comments

Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (1996)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keynote-with-Bob-Muglia-and-Steve-Jobs/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 98 comments

Evan Spiegel's Email Memo

http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegels-email-memo-2014-12

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 106 comments

The largest vessel the world has ever seen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30394137

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 96 comments

NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-study-proposes-airships-cloud-cities-for-venus-exploration

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 97 comments

The Elf on the Shelf is preparing your child to live in a future police state

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/12/16/the-elf-on-the-shelf-is-preparing-your-child-to-live-in-a-future-police-state-professor-says/?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

Reverse-engineering Playstation 1

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://psxdev.ru/news

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 9 comments
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