top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-20

Scans of North Korean IP Space

http://nknetobserver.github.io

12 years ago

372 upvotes – 111 comments

Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 66 comments

An Offer to Sony from 2600

http://www.2600.com/?q=content/offer-sony-2600

12 years ago

354 upvotes – 190 comments

Rails 4.2 released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/12/19/Rails-4-2-final/

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 51 comments

Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option

http://www.higherorderlogic.com/2010/07/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 100 comments

The Tale of Studio Ghibli

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/12/japanese-animation?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thetaleofstudioghibli

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 59 comments

Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/facebook-blocks-russian-page-supporting-navalny-putins-biggest-critic/2014/12/20/a8c782b8-8877-11e4-abcf-5a3d7b3b20b8_story.html

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 61 comments

A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/19/poor-imitation-alan-turing/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 39 comments

Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for Python 3.5

https://quip.com/r69HA9GhGa7J

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 53 comments

Your waitress, your professor

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 140 comments

Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (2007)

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-programming-matters

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

DuetDisplay and Unattributed Open-Source

https://github.com/deanm/deanm.github.com/blob/master/_posts/2014-12-18-DuetDisplay.markdown

12 years ago

★ 157 CSS
139 upvotes – 50 comments

Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf]

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/43146.pdf

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 26 comments

“Openntpd is not vulnerable.”

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/40107/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Nim, Ocaml, and more

https://github.com/logicchains/LPATHBench/blob/master/writeup.md

12 years ago

★ 155 C MIT
121 upvotes – 115 comments

Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 56 comments

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids from How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor

http://piotrkazmierczak.com/2010/05/13/emacs-as-the-ultimate-latex-editor/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

ShellCheck: a static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts

http://www.shellcheck.net/about.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investigation With U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/north-korea-denying-sony-attack-proposes-joint-investigation-with-us.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 149 comments
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