502
110
Merry Christmas to HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795524
12 years ago
336
99
When security goes right
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-12-25-when-security-goes-right.html
327
72
Ruby 2.2.0 Released
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/12/25/ruby-2-2-0-released/
251
83
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
223
165
The Fermi Paradox
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
213
122
Virgin births in animals are no longer rare
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141219-spectacular-real-virgin-births
180
55
The Tears of Donald Knuth
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181633-the-tears-of-donald-knuth/fulltext
169
53
Why we love repetition in music
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/
162
41
NSA Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-24/spy-agency-to-release-reports-documenting-surveillance-errors
161
10
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
148
66
Intrusive lists in Doom 3
http://gpfault.net/posts/intrusive-lists-doom3.txt.html
107
Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date
https://canary.silentcircle.com/
146
62
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/
139
79
Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795321
84
Why India outsourcing is doomed
http://www.devbattles.com/en/sand/post-490-Why+India+outsourcing+is+Doomed
115
67
Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796409
113
106
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/
93
11
Julia by Example
http://www.scolvin.com/juliabyexample/
27
JavaScript Internationalization API
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/introducing-the-javascript-internationalization-api/
90
30
I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them
http://silent700.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-this-something.html?m=1
64
Subtraction is not comparison
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/subtraction-is-not-comparison
88
28
A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System (2001)
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/schmidt/archive/social-anarchism.htm
87
16
Experimental C++11 multi-platform 3D engine
https://github.com/floooh/oryol
★ 2k C++ MIT– 12 years ago
15
What makes teams successful? 150,000 GitHub projects analyzed
http://research.gigaom.com/2014/07/part-1-what-makes-teams-successful/
76
Roaring bitmaps: A better compressed bitset
http://roaringbitmap.org/
Web Encryption Gets Stronger and More Widespread: 2014 in Review
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/2014-web-encryption-roundup
73
60
Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems – LaTeX and Word
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0115069
71
Where Smalltalk Went Wrong (2004)
http://www.ianbicking.org/where-smalltalk-went-wrong.html
24
The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181626-the-rise-and-fall-of-industrial-research-labs/fulltext
70
Six Pictures of Paradise
http://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/six-pictures-of-paradise-rp
65
9
20 Years of Impulse Tracker, Part 4 – full source code
http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-of-impulse-tracker-part-4.html
19
In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seen
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/world/europe/naples-suspended-coffee.html
