top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-22

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html

12 years ago

JMAP – a better way to email

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/23/jmap-a-better-way-to-email/

12 years ago

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2014/

12 years ago

Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspected-as-north-korean-internet-collapses.html

12 years ago

Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion

http://blog.baia-network.org/baiablog/2014/12/salvatore-sanfilippo-from-sicily-redis.html

12 years ago

Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/

12 years ago

Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

http://arthurtw.github.io/2014/12/21/rust-anti-sloppy-programming-language.html

12 years ago

We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation

https://codeascraft.com/2014/12/22/engineering-rotation/

12 years ago

Cat Litter Boxes and DRM

https://medium.com/@jorge_lo/the-future-a-cat-litter-and-drm-6dbda26428f8

12 years ago

Schwab password policies and two factor authentication

http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/swab-password-policies-and-two-factor-authentication-a-comedy-of-errors

12 years ago

Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleSelfDrivingCars/posts/9WBWP2E4GDu

12 years ago

High speed M&M sorting machine

http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2014/12/22/high-speed-mandm-sorting-machine/

12 years ago

The Humane Representation of Thought [video]

http://vimeo.com/115154289

12 years ago

Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781768

12 years ago

Meteor and Qt

http://achipa.blogspot.com/2014/12/meteor-and-qt-match-made-in-heaven.html

12 years ago

Generating code

http://blog.golang.org/generate

12 years ago

Flexbox Adventures

http://chriswrightdesign.com/experiments/flexbox-adventures/

12 years ago

She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech for starters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/martine-rothblatt-she-founded-siriusxm-a-religion-and-a-biotech-for-starters/2014/12/11/5a8a4866-71ab-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

12 years ago

Popular Myths about C++, Part 3

https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-3

12 years ago

Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers/

12 years ago

A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-way-to-reach-mars-safely-anytime-and-on-the-cheap/

12 years ago

Why you should think twice about Freelancer.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783188

12 years ago

What's wrong with convolutional nets? [video]

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/bcs/videos/30698-what-s-wrong-with-convolutional-nets

12 years ago

Is Homo Economicus a Psychopath?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/12/15/is-homo-economicus-a-psychopath/

12 years ago

Improving Redis CRC performance

https://matt.sh/redis-crcspeed

12 years ago

How I Got the First Paying Customers for My Startup

https://medium.com/@JonTuckerUSA/how-i-got-the-first-paying-customers-for-my-startup-in-10-days-e6054495a672

12 years ago

Buzz Aldrin: The Dark Side of the Moon

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201501/buzz-aldrin

12 years ago

A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace

https://medium.com/@kunaljasty/a-lost-1996-interview-with-david-foster-wallace-63987d93c2c

12 years ago

Ntimed – NTPD replacement

https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed

12 years ago

★ 394 C

Haskell Poll Results

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/poll.html

12 years ago

Analysis of some of the IP addresses in the Sony hack

http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/fauxtribution/

12 years ago

Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader

https://github.com/sorpaas/reread

12 years ago

★ 157 JavaScript MIT

Maximally Powerful, Minimally Useful

http://blog.higher-order.com/blog/2014/12/21/maximally-powerful/

12 years ago

Rackspace DNS DDOS

https://plus.google.com/+RackspaceHosting/posts/8yVxbLqfx6Q

12 years ago

Visualizing TCP (2010)

http://research.swtch.com/tcpviz

12 years ago

Some experts don't buy the FBI claim that North Korea hacked Sony

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-these-experts-still-dont-buy-20141221-column.html

12 years ago

Japanese activist challenges secrets law with whistleblower tool

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/us-japan-secrets-activist-idUSKBN0JX14F20141219

12 years ago

Why Bitcoin’s Erratic Price Doesn’t Matter

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/12/21/why-bitcoins-erratic-price-doesnt-matter/

12 years ago

Stanford's Women Won Just a Sliver of Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/gender-gaps-stanford-94.html#top

12 years ago

Ask HN: XMPP/Jabber self hosting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783794

12 years ago

Show HN: Rudolph Runner

http://albertxing.github.io/rudolph-runner/

12 years ago

World’s First Connected Bike Grips

http://smrtgrips.bike/

12 years ago

FastMail's CardDAV System

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/22/carddav-beta-release/

12 years ago