top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-25

Merry Christmas to HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795524

12 years ago

502 upvotes – 110 comments

When security goes right

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-12-25-when-security-goes-right.html

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 99 comments

Ruby 2.2.0 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/12/25/ruby-2-2-0-released/

12 years ago

327 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015

http://blog.kazuhooku.com/2014/12/ann-initial-release-of-h2o-and-why.html

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 83 comments

The Fermi Paradox

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 165 comments

Virgin births in animals are no longer rare

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141219-spectacular-real-virgin-births

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 122 comments

The Tears of Donald Knuth

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181633-the-tears-of-donald-knuth/fulltext

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 55 comments

Why we love repetition in music

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 53 comments

NSA Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-24/spy-agency-to-release-reports-documenting-surveillance-errors

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 41 comments

He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (1986)

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-25/local/me-537_1_peaches

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 10 comments

Intrusive lists in Doom 3

http://gpfault.net/posts/intrusive-lists-doom3.txt.html

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 66 comments

Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date

https://canary.silentcircle.com/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 107 comments

Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/12/22/mozilla-and-kddi-launch-first-firefox-os-smartphone-in-japan/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 62 comments

Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795321

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Why India outsourcing is doomed

http://www.devbattles.com/en/sand/post-490-Why+India+outsourcing+is+Doomed

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796409

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 67 comments

Why the ‘Best Places to Work’ Often Aren’t

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/a-great-place-to-work-cant-be-found-on-lists/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 106 comments

Julia by Example

http://www.scolvin.com/juliabyexample/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

JavaScript Internationalization API

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/introducing-the-javascript-internationalization-api/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them

http://silent700.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-this-something.html?m=1

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments
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