top 50% 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

Notable Books of 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

Intercal: The Worst Programming Language Ever [video]

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 77 comments

Content, Forever

http://tinysubversions.com/contentForever/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

How to Get a Job in Algorithmic Trading

https://www.financejobs.co/development/how-to-get-a-job-in-algorithmic-trading.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 91 comments

How We Email Hardware to Space

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-we-email-hardware-to-space-7d46eed00c98

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

First Experimental Flight of India's Launch Vehicle GSLV Mk-III Successful

http://isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Dec18_2014

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

What to Eat After the Apocalypse

http://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/what-to-eat-after-the-apocalypse

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 158 comments

Multidimensional analysis of plot arcs in thousands of TV and movie scripts

http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2014/12/fundamental-plot-arcs-seen-through.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Female Founders Conference 2015 applications are open

http://blog.ycombinator.com/female-founders-conference-2015-applications-are-open

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band

http://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_from_the_microsoft_band.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: If we could redesign the Internet from scratch, what should it be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8766871

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Still no stem cells via easy 'STAP' path

http://www.nature.com/news/still-no-stem-cells-via-easy-stap-path-1.16606

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

One group dominates the second round of net neutrality comments

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/12/16/one-group-dominates-the-second-round-of-net-neutrality-comments/?

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

A Complete List of .Gov Domains

https://18f.gsa.gov/2014/12/18/a-complete-list-of-gov-domains/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5567

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

State of the MirageOS: an OCaml unikernel [video]

https://www.irill.org/videos/oups-december-2014/MirageOS

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

The Story of Siri, by its founder [video]

https://wit.ai/blog/2014/12/18/adam-keynote

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Columnarization in Rust

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/columnarization/serialization/rust/2014/12/15/Columnarization-in-Rust.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Tab Snooze – Snooze tabs for later

https://github.com/athyuttamre/tab-snooze

12 years ago

★ 749 JavaScript MIT
74 upvotes – 26 comments

Yer a Developer, Harry – Programming Is Magic

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/12/18/programming-is-magic/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/magazine/the-sinaloa-cartels-90-year-old-drug-mule.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

“The Go tree is now open for general work”

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/otCULnOjs7I

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Meeting Ayn Rand on the Las Vegas Strip

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/meeting-ayn-rand-on-the-las-vegas-strip/383608/?single_page=true

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 66 comments

“Mastering Emacs” ebook announced

http://www.masteringemacs.org/book

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel

http://eudyptula-challenge.org/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Deal forcing Microsoft to offer browser choices ends

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30501518

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 95 comments

Memo: Open-source note-taking software with hack value

http://www.getmemo.org/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Chance discovery casts new light on the origins of polyphonic music

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/17/polyphonic-music-fragment-origins-rewritten

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Airbnb invents a call center that isn't hell to work at

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/airbnb-invents-call-center-isnt-hell-work/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Barcode-in-barcode attacks [pdf]

https://www.iseclab.org/people/atrox/qrinception.pdf

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments
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