top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-12-27

Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-adblock-plus-is-probably-the-reason-firefox-and-chrome-are-such-memory-hogs

12 years ago

The Wire in HD

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

12 years ago

Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=1&q=status:Obsolete&sort=-stars

12 years ago

Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon

https://medium.com/dome-kit/slow-flexible-cheap-5598ca91fb38

12 years ago

Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages

https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_language_learning_curves.md

12 years ago

★ 1.5k Python

The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST

http://engineering.imvu.com/2014/12/27/the-real-time-web-in-rest-services-at-imvu/

12 years ago

31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/saal1/

12 years ago

The future of jobs: The onrushing wave

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21594264-previous-technological-innovation-has-always-delivered-more-long-run-employment-not-less

12 years ago

How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ts/kfc-christmas-in-japan-colonel-sanders-history-12-23-2014

12 years ago

Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

12 years ago

★ 25.5k C AGPL-3.0