top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-21

“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.user/34619

12 years ago

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

http://paulgraham.com/ecw.html

12 years ago

“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”

https://github.com/threedaymonk/text/issues/21#issuecomment-67752327

12 years ago

★ 585 Ruby

Page load fail makes it difficult to cook cornbread in the woodstove

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773619

12 years ago

How to Design Programs, Second Edition

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e

12 years ago

N reasons why the spooks love Tribler

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December/007999.html

12 years ago

So you want to learn type theory

http://purelytheoretical.com/sywtltt.html

12 years ago

Apple EFI Firmware Security Vulnerabilities

https://trmm.net/EFI

12 years ago

Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++

https://github.com/rusthon/Rusthon

12 years ago

★ 905 Python

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

12 years ago

★ 23.6k Java

Scientists Find Evidence of Viking Presence in Arctic Canada

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-viking-presence-arctic-canada-02349.html

12 years ago

U.S. ends TARP with $15.3B profit

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/news/companies/government-bailouts-end/

12 years ago

Before Google, Who Knew?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/theprotojournalist/2014/12/20/371851621/before-google-who-knew

12 years ago

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects

http://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/

12 years ago

Is_computer_on_fire() (2000)

http://everything2.com/title/is_computer_on_fire%2528%2529

12 years ago

A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 (2012)

http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spaniard-in-samarkand-1404.html

12 years ago

Why switching jobs is almost always a good idea

http://alexpotato.com/blog/why-switching-jobs-is-almost-always-a-good-idea/

12 years ago

Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-dVp542XGk

12 years ago

Bitcoin adoption in 2015

http://daltoncaldwell.com/bitcoin-adoption-in-2015

12 years ago

CIA Travel Advice to Operatives

https://wikileaks.org/cia-travel/

12 years ago

Algorithms playground for common questions solved in Ruby syntax

https://github.com/sagivo/algorithms

12 years ago

★ 3.2k Ruby

Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago

http://www.olduse.net/

12 years ago

Causal Inference Book

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/

12 years ago

U.S. Child Study Canceled After $1.3B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-15/huge-u-s-child-health-study-canceled-after-1-3-billion.html

12 years ago

How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/12/19/how-massachusetts-man-invented-global-ice-market/aoJjlHGR4Kj53Z62ZQrhrJ/story.html

12 years ago

“Committed on 22 May 1981”

https://github.com/mist64/msdos1/commit/16d08abe4ff316cc621db1301896a32bec689fb7

12 years ago

★ 190 Assembly

Incremental Plans to Improve Python Packaging

http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/pep_ideas/core_packaging_api.html

12 years ago

Grab – simple but very fast grep

https://github.com/stealth/grab

12 years ago

★ 265 C++

Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970

http://www.righto.com/2014/12/inside-intel-1405-die-photos-of-shift.html

12 years ago

ClojureScript Tutorial

http://www.niwi.be/cljs-workshop/

12 years ago

Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/12/msg00184.html

12 years ago