top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-23

Principles of Distributed Computing

http://dcg.ethz.ch/lectures/podc_allstars/

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 22 comments

Docker Image Insecurity

https://titanous.com/posts/docker-insecurity

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 100 comments

Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2015/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 150 comments

PHP 7's new hashtable implementation

http://nikic.github.io/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-implementation.html

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 131 comments

Daala progress update

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/update1.shtml

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 38 comments

GPGPU Accelerates PostgreSQL

http://www.slideshare.net/kaigai/gpgpu-accelerates-postgresql

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 52 comments

Flipping bits in memory without accessing them [pdf]

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~safari/pubs/kim-isca14.pdf

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 81 comments

Plague

http://plague.io/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 103 comments

Eggs Not Always What They're Cracked Up to Be

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/23/370377902/farm-fresh-natural-eggs-not-always-what-they-re-cracked-up-to-be

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 150 comments

Software engineering interview questions

https://oj.leetcode.com/problems/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 96 comments

Bitcore – A pure JavaScript Bitcoin API

http://bitcore.io

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

AWS Will Give You Credit for Completing These EdX Courses

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/23/amazon-web-services-will-give-you-1000-in-credit-for-completing-these-edx-courses/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 21 comments

Waitin' (on Leiningen)

http://swannodette.github.io/2014/12/22/waitin/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 43 comments

Computer intrusion inflicts massive damage on German steel factory

http://www.itworld.com/article/2861675/cyberattack-on-german-steel-factory-causes-massive-damage.html

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

Network Manager 1.0 Released after 10 years of development

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2014-December/msg00030.html

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Startup Fighter

https://startupfighter.com

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 41 comments

Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering

http://emberjs.com/blog/2014/12/22/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-side-rendering.html

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Beginners' Guide to Linkers

http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Scrape the web by injecting JavaScript into web pages

http://espion.io/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/orangutan-personhood/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 96 comments

My favourite interview question (2006)

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-question.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

How Good Was Napoleon? (2007)

http://www.historytoday.com/jonathon-riley/how-good-was-napoleon

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 79 comments

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

https://gist.github.com/jed/6147872

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8788454

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

Google has now ‘forgotten’ more than a quarter-million URLs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/22/google-has-now-forgotten-more-than-a-quarter-million-urls/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

North Korea's Official Statement

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201412/news21/20141221-14ee.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 73 comments

What Lies Below at the South Pole

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84947

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Mix of Bacteria in Gut May Depend More on Diet Than Genes

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/12/122151/mix-bacteria-gut-may-depend-more-diet-genes

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 57 comments

Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

http://mmodm.co/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 55 comments

With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch developer war, at least for now

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040235/app-economy/pebble-passes-5000-smartwatch-apps-how-it-got-there-and-what-comes-next

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Bitshares Login

http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/article/2014/12/22/BitShares-Login/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/100000003252545.app.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

Sony threatens to sue Twitter

http://www.scribd.com/doc/250802459/Sony-Letter-to-Twitter

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

The Curious Case of the T.V. Attorney and Twitter

https://www.popehat.com/2014/12/20/the-curious-case-of-the-t-v-attorney-and-twitter/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Angara-5 to become Russia's biggest rocket

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5_flight1.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Resurrecting the 8088 Micoprocessor

http://zixg.com/resurrecting-the-8088-micoprocessor

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientists

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bedbug-bait-and-trap-invented-by-simon-fraser-university-scientists-1.2881654

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Pitfalls of Callback-Based APIs

http://thelig.ht/callbacks/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/how-victorian-london-almost-ended-up-with-a-roman-sewer

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=rust&lang2=go

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Cluckles, live theme editor for Bootstrap

http://cluckles.com

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine has been successfully tested in the UK

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-airplanes-hybrid-electric.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

Promises and Lisp

http://lisper.in/promises/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Let-aliasing in Typed Racket

http://andmkent.com/blog/2014/12/20/let-aliasing-in-typed-racket/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments

Using Induction to Design Algorithms (1988) [pdf]

http://akira.ruc.dk/~keld/teaching/algoritmedesign_f05/Artikler/05/Manber88.pdf

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Disabled dog runs for the first time thanks to 3D-printed legs

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/18/7414591/disabled-dog-runs-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-3d-printed-legs

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

An Artificial Biological Leaf [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-T0ht2OdQ

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

How Possibilities of Life Elsewhere Might Alter Held Notions of Faith

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/science/how-possibilities-of-life-elsewhere-might-alter-held-notions-of-gaith.html?ref=science&_r=0

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 60 comments

How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple People to Be Innocent?

http://obsessionwithregression.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-likely-is-someone-accused-of.html

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 60 comments
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