top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-19

Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network

12 years ago

516 upvotes – 121 comments

Obfuscating “Hello World” in Python

http://benkurtovic.com/2014/06/01/obfuscating-hello-world.html

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 55 comments

Update on Sony Investigation

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-sony-investigation

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 263 comments

Machine Learning Course by Tom Mitchell

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 40 comments

Nuitka: a Python compiler

http://nuitka.net/

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 135 comments

How to Send Email Like a Startup

https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/guide/

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 44 comments

Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/0efafac398ff7f28c5f0fe756c15b9008b3e0534

12 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
208 upvotes – 102 comments

Systematizing Sales with Software and Processes

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/sales_automation

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 49 comments

Hyperloop is making progress

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/19/elon-hyperloop

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 139 comments

The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-pattern.html

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 76 comments

Open-sourcing OvertureJS – the JavaScript lib that powers FastMail

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/20/open-sourcing-overturejs-the-js-lib-that-powers-fastmail/

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 41 comments

Multiple vulnerabilities released in NTP

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Buffer_overflow_in_ctl_putdata

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 111 comments

Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkey-see-monkey-speak-video/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/18/private-colleges-are-a-waste-of-money-for-white-middle-class-kids/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 86 comments

Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-quantum-physics-complicated.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 57 comments

Graceful server restart with Go

http://blog.appsdeck.eu/post/105609534953/graceful-server-restart-with-go

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 49 comments

Imagining a society that isn't dominated by police

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/policing-is-a-dirty-job-but-nobodys-gotta-do-it-6-ideas-for-a-cop-free-world-20141216

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney General

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7422119/goliath-strikes-back-google-takes-legal-action-against-the-mpaa-and

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Node.js stream handbook

https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

What is Meteor.js?

http://joshowens.me/what-is-meteor-js/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

To elaborate on why open-source hardware is hard

http://www.mauve.plus.com/opensourcehw.txt

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 54 comments

The Cold-Medicine Racket

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/dayquil-screed/383768/?single_page=true

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 114 comments

The dominant intelligence in the cosmos may be artificial

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-dominant-life-form-in-the-cosmos-is-probably-superintelligent-robots

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Simple monitoring service

https://ping.gg

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql

https://github.com/lib/pq

12 years ago

★ 9.8k Go MIT
88 upvotes – 4 comments

Misfortune Cookie

http://mis.fortunecook.ie/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXoG0WX0r_E

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Amputee controls prosthetic arms by thinking about them [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Square Open-Sources Golang Crypto Package Based on JWE/JWS

https://github.com/square/go-jose

12 years ago

★ 1.9k
73 upvotes – 14 comments

Haskell version of Norvig's spelling corrector

http://marcosero.com/blog/norvig-haskell-spelling-corrector/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Sony Hackers Seen Having Snooped for Months

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-19/sony-hackers-seen-having-snooped-for-months-planted-bomb.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

The Slate Programming Language

http://www.slatelanguage.org

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers

http://oldschoolgameblog.com/2014/12/19/amigaos-4-1-final-edition-now-shipping-to-dealers/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: I’m visiting Bay Area and I dislike the “hacker” culture. Please help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8772824

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

Why save a language?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/why-save-a-language.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 85 comments

Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code

http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6388

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Tech investors plowing money into future farms

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2025258312_agtechfuturexml.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

Snapchat CEO predicts Facebook will implode like Yahoo

http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-says-facebook-will-implode-2014-12

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 50 comments

Battery Swap Pilot Program

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/battery-swap-pilot-program

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Lifestyle, Inc. (2004)

http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/lifestyle_inc

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

Apple goes to war with the BBC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11303052/Apple-working-conditions-Tim-Cook.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 83 comments

Mlpack: A C++ machine learning library

https://github.com/rcurtin/mlpack

12 years ago

★ 7 C++
47 upvotes – 6 comments

Startups fighting over the word 'zen'

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Startups-are-fighting-over-the-word-zen-5968580.php

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 42 comments

Google strikes back at Mississippi attorney general over MPAA subpoenas

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7422119/goliath-strikes-back-google-takes-legal-action-against-state-attorney-general

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

The Language of Food and Dating, by Dan Jurafsky [video]

https://wit.ai/blog/2014/12/19/dan-jurafsky-food

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments

Stanford Team Combines Logic, Memory to Build a 'High-Rise' Chip

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-team-combines-logic-memory-build-high-rise-chip

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

First release of gngr web browser

https://blog.gngr.info/v000.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 32 comments

He was a crook (1994)

http://m.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm?single_page=true

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Hackajob.co – Talent Matchmaking and Get Hired by Hacking

http://www.hackajob.co/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 2 comments

What’s Wrong with Statistics in Julia? A Reply

http://wizardmac.tumblr.com/post/104019606584/whats-wrong-with-statistics-in-julia-a-reply

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 16 comments

Nasa just emailed a wrench to the ISS

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/19/3d-printed-space-wrench

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments

8-bit Weather

http://8bitweather.co/

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 10 comments

Dogpatch: HTTP API testing framework, written in PHP using curl

https://github.com/commando/dogpatch

12 years ago

★ 358 PHP Apache-2.0
40 upvotes – 10 comments

Ancient Roman Water Networks Made the Empire Vulnerable

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-roman-water-networks-made-empire-vulnerable-180953679

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 3 comments

TextIt Goes Open Source

http://blog.textit.in/textit-open-sources-technology-platform-as-rapidpro

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 3 comments
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