top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-20

Scans of North Korean IP Space

http://nknetobserver.github.io

12 years ago

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

An Offer to Sony from 2600

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

12 years ago

Rails 4.2 released

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing

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

12 years ago

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

https://quip.com/r69HA9GhGa7J

12 years ago

Your waitress, your professor

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

12 years ago

Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (2007)

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

12 years ago

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

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

“Openntpd is not vulnerable.”

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-19/ex-bitcoin-foundation-s-shrem-gets-2-year-term-in-silk-road-case.html

12 years ago

The Insurance Market Mystifies an Airbnb Host

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/your-money/the-insurance-market-mystifies-an-airbnb-host.html?_r=0

12 years ago

State of the Specialization: Generics over primitives in Java and JVM

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/specialization.html

12 years ago

Study: Chicago red light cameras provide few safety benefits

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-red-light-camera-safety-met-20141219-story.html#page=1

12 years ago

Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/19/half-of-dr-ozs-medical-advice-is-baseless-or-wrong-study-says/

12 years ago

Reverse-engineering the Kayak app with mitmproxy

http://www.shubhro.com/2014/12/18/reverse-engineering-kayak-mitmproxy/

12 years ago

N.F.L. Playoff Simulator

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/19/upshot/nfl-playoff-simulator.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&abt=0002&abg=0

12 years ago

A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/science/a-meditation-on-the-art-of-not-trying.html

12 years ago

LuaJIT Language Toolkit

https://github.com/franko/luajit-lang-toolkit

12 years ago

★ 699 Lua

Stripe SQLite data exports beta

https://groups.google.com/a/lists.stripe.com/forum/#!topic/api-discuss/x2VXdVdn66w

12 years ago

Seattle Police hackathon to redact video streams recorded by police cams

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-police-hackathon-substantial-first-step/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geekwire+%28GeekWire%29

12 years ago

TOCC: A Tool for Obsessive Compulsive Classifiers

http://t-o-c-c.com/

12 years ago

U.S. Imposes Steep Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/business/energy-environment/-us-imposes-steep-tariffs-on-chinese-solar-panels.html

12 years ago

Elsevier retracting 16 papers for faked peer review

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/12/19/elsevier-retracting-16-papers-faked-peer-review/

12 years ago

Buffett Reminds His Top Managers: Reputation Is Everything

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/12/19/buffett-reminds-his-top-managers-reputation-is-everything/

12 years ago

If Apple holds the future of computing, I don't want to be a developer (2010)

http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/if-apple-holds-the-future-of-computing-I-dontwant-to-be-a-developer/

12 years ago

Whistleblower reveals how fraud of Booking.com worked

http://m.bbc.com/news/business-30555620

12 years ago

Apple, is USB allowed now?

https://medium.com/@mronge/apple-is-usb-allowed-now-8da959394e82

12 years ago

Get into Clojure with ClojureBridge

http://clojurebridge.github.io/community-docs/

12 years ago

Ask HN: What encrypted chat application to choose?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776398

12 years ago