top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-18

Git client vulnerability announced

https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced

12 years ago

818 upvotes – 177 comments

EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-argue-nsa-data-collection-internet-backbone-unconstitutional

12 years ago

808 upvotes – 169 comments

PostgreSQL 9.4 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1557/

12 years ago

744 upvotes – 188 comments

Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea

http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/18/why-the-sony-hack-is-unlikely-to-be-the-work-of-north-korea/

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 198 comments

German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/

12 years ago

311 upvotes – 137 comments

The pitch deck that helped us get an $865M valuation

https://mixpanel.com/blog/2014/12/18/open-sourcing-our-pitch-deck-that-helped-us-get-our-865m-valuation

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 79 comments

The Itch Nobody Can Scratch

https://medium.com/matter-archive/the-itch-nobody-can-scratch-4d980e3ac519?src=longreads

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 147 comments

Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-com-launches-superfast-delivery-in-nyc-1418903192?mod=e2tw

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 157 comments

A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video]

http://vimeo.com/114879061

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 70 comments

Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

http://ianyh.com/amethyst/

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 105 comments

Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/reaction-to-the-sony-hack-is-beyond-the-realm-of-stupid?utm_source=mbtwitter

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps

https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml/

12 years ago

★ 3.3k JavaScript MIT
215 upvotes – 45 comments

How Pipedrive went from 0 to 10,000 paying customers in SaaS

http://purde.net/2014/12/how-to-get-from-0-to-10000-paying-customers-in-saas/

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 62 comments

“I’m in the US – what if I just ignore the EU VAT changes?”

http://www.happybootstrapper.com/2014/im-us-whatll-happen-just-ignore-eu-vat-changes/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 175 comments

The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking

http://danluu.com/integer-overflow/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 106 comments

Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation

http://www.jonathanklein.net/2014/02/revisiting-cookieless-domain.html

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $65M to Build Predictive Data Tech

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-16129

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 27 comments

Using Freenet

http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2014/12/18/using-freenet.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

Snowdrift.coop: Funding for free projects

http://lwn.net/Articles/625051/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_%28engineer%29#Kelly_Johnson.27s_14_Rules_of_Management

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 56 comments
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