top 20 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

Interactive Programming in C

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/12/23/

12 years ago

SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate [video]

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6249/

12 years ago

When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/

12 years ago

Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/robdns

12 years ago

★ 612 C

Functional Operating System and Security Protocol Engineering

http://decks.openmirage.org/31c3#/

12 years ago

Apollo 11 Flight Plan – Final [pdf]

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11fltpln_final_reformat.pdf

12 years ago

Ask HN: How to use small chunks of time productively

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803389

12 years ago

Demolished: The End of Chicago's Public Housing

http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/publichousing/

12 years ago

Patients do better when cardiologists are away at academic meetings

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/patients-do-better-when-cardiologists-are-away-at-academic-meetings/

12 years ago

Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp

https://github.com/fukamachi/woo

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Common Lisp MIT