top 50% 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

Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases

https://github.com/emirozer/fake2db

12 years ago

★ 2.3k Python GPL-2.0
120 upvotes – 15 comments

Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting

http://blog.suny.edu/2014/03/future-cities-lit-by-beautiful-bioluminescent-trees/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 61 comments

AnandTech Acquired by Purch

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8790/anandtech-acquired-by-purch

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style

http://samy.pl/usbdriveby

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality

http://qz.com/312537/the-secret-to-the-uber-economy-is-wealth-inequality/#

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: An interactive comparison chart of the 300 most popular smartphones

http://things.gnod.com/smartphones/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Handwriting vs. typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/16/cognitive-benefits-handwriting-decline-typing

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 99 comments

Why college students who do historical research become analytical thinkers

https://theamericanscholar.org/habits-of-mind/#.VJG9KYrF8zE

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Computers are People, Too: Disney documentary about computer art in 1982

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-disney-was-hustled-into-making-the-trippiest-movie-about-computers-ever

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: How to break up and delegate programming tasks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8762662

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine?

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-facebook-as-a-traffic-engine

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Sentiment Analysis on Web-Scraped Data

http://blog.kimonolabs.com/2014/12/17/guest-blog-sentiment-analysis-on-web-scraped-data-with-kimono-and-monkeylearn/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Teardown of the Microsoft Band

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1681

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

How exercise changes our DNA?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/how-exercise-changes-our-dna/?_r=0

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Faster Builds with Container-Based Infrastructure and Docker

http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-17-faster-builds-with-container-based-infrastructure/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Proposal to move CoreOS off of btrfs

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-dev/NDEOXchAbuU

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Companies That Want to Charge You for Negative Reviews

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141214/16102629441/here-are-companies-that-want-to-charge-you-2500-100000-negative-reviews.shtml

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/peter-thiel-i-m-on-the-human-growth-hormone-pill-JMrIsAq6RC~j2soBovyj4w.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 71 comments

FarmLogs (YC W12) Nabs $10M Series B from SV Angel, Sam Altman and Others

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/farmlogs-nabs-10m-series-b-from-sv-angel-sam-altman-and-others/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Benchmarking Ruby with GCC and Clang

https://p8952.info/ruby/2014/12/12/benchmarking-ruby-with-gcc-and-clang.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Gmail just broke every Chrome extension. Here’s how we fixed ours

https://mixmax.com/blog/gmail-just-broke-every-chrome-extension

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

If Sony Hack Wanted to Stop 'The Interview' Release, It Worked

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30526406

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 64 comments

ChangeTip must die

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/17/changetip-must-die/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

The Nth Fibonacci Number in O(log N)

http://kukuruku.co/hub/algorithms/the-nth-fibonacci-number-in-olog-n

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: My first startup, making premium long distance cyclewear

http://www.redwhite.cc/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 61 comments

The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory

http://www.sigwom.com/?page_id=17

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Occupy goes to TechCrunch Disrupt

http://harpers.org/blog/2014/12/battlefield-worth/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

‘A Great Moment’: Rover Finds Clue That Mars May Harbor Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/science/a-new-clue-in-the-search-for-life-on-mars.html?ref=science

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Several of the web servers powering phpBB.com were compromised

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1186015

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments

Decoding Floats

http://raysohn.com/posts/decoding-floats.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments
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