top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-24

Mozilla Research Projects

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/

12 years ago

440 upvotes – 92 comments

Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps

http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look-weird-at-48fps-and-games-are-better-at-60fps-and-the-uncanny-valley.html?

12 years ago

433 upvotes – 125 comments

UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]

https://vimeo.com/115309653

12 years ago

282 upvotes – 238 comments

Jenga Pistol

http://woodgears.ca/jenga_pistol/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 24 comments

Why is everyone so busy?

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/whyiseveryonesobusy

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 213 comments

No more JavaScript frameworks

http://bitworking.org/news/2014/05/zero_framework_manifesto

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 161 comments

The world is not falling apart: The trend lines

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.single.html

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 111 comments

The Interview

https://stripe.com/blog/the-interview

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 145 comments

Atom Shell: Cross-platform desktop application shell

https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

12 years ago

★ 121k C++ MIT
182 upvotes – 59 comments

Adventures in Piano Building

https://medium.com/@hackmancoltaire/adventures-in-piano-building-c3fe5fa0b56b

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 30 comments

Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/did_north_korea.html

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 99 comments

OpenSSD – Open firmware for SSDs

http://www.openssd-project.org/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript

http://turfjs.org/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 22 comments

Bitcoin guide

https://stripe.com/docs/guides/bitcoin-beta

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

15-440: Distributed Systems Syllabus

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-440/F12/syllabus.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information

http://slur.io/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Linux on an 8-bit micro (2012)

http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8bit

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 44 comments

Julian Assange: Why I Founded WikiLeaks

http://www.newsweek.com/julian-assange-why-i-founded-wikileaks-294283

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 65 comments

The Canadian Mincome Experiment of 1974-79

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/mincome-in-dauphin-manitoba_n_6335682.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-business

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 97 comments

Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-39565

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

How America Became an Economic Superpower

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/?single_page=true

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 128 comments

Each New Boot a Miracle – DOSBOX in the Browser

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4471

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Introduction to Modern Brain-Computer Interface Design

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Introduction_To_Modern_Brain-Computer_Interface_Design

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 12 comments

Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-24/uber-ceo-indicted-in-south-korea-over-its-taxi-service.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 141 comments

Dataframes – Julia, R, Python

http://ajkl.github.io/Dataframes/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

In Defense of Inclusionism (2011)

http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Mozilla Shumway: A Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

12 years ago

★ 3.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0
105 upvotes – 35 comments

An Experience in Contributing to Open Source

http://stillflowing.net/2014/12/21/an-experience-in-contributing-to-open-source/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Gobot: A framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things

http://gobot.io/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

Intel’s e-DRAM Shows Up in the Wild

http://chipworksrealchips.blogspot.com/2014/02/intels-e-dram-shows-up-in-wild.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

We Are Built to Be Kind [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWs6bf7tvI

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-22/coca-cola-disconnects-voice-mail-at-headquarters.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 108 comments

Getting Started with Elm

http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2014/12/19/getting-started-with-elm

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

“The Interview” Now Available on Google Play and YouTube Movies

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-interview-now-available-on-google.html

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Hologram: taking EC2 Instance Roles everywhere

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/ops/2014/12/22/announcing-hologram.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (2011)

http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do#

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

What happens when a software bot goes on a darknet shopping spree?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/software-bot-darknet-shopping-spree-random-shopper

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels

https://www.getchicory.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 56 comments

“No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/24/no-north-korea-didn-t-hack-sony.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Origins of the police

https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the-police/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/12/nordic_quack.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 53 comments

David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact

http://blog.longreads.com/2014/02/15/david-foster-wallace-and-the-nature-of-fact/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Kleisli Categories – Composition of Logs

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/12/23/kleisli-categories/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Ccv 0.7, with a sub-10% image classifier and a decent face detector

http://libccv.org/post/with-a-sub-10-image-classifier-a-decent-face-detector-here-comes-ccv-0.7/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments
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