top 50% 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

748 upvotes – 400 comments

The Wire in HD

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

12 years ago

292 upvotes – 40 comments

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

269 upvotes – 194 comments

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

255 upvotes – 33 comments

Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages

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

12 years ago

★ 1.5k Python
207 upvotes – 207 comments

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

167 upvotes – 23 comments

31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video

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

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 34 comments

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

164 upvotes – 137 comments

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

161 upvotes – 49 comments

Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

12 years ago

★ 25.5k C AGPL-3.0
147 upvotes – 29 comments

Interactive Programming in C

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

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 15 comments

SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate [video]

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

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

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

120 upvotes – 83 comments

Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/robdns

12 years ago

★ 612 C
120 upvotes – 54 comments

Functional Operating System and Security Protocol Engineering

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

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

Apollo 11 Flight Plan – Final [pdf]

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

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: How to use small chunks of time productively

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

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 55 comments

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

104 upvotes – 50 comments

Demolished: The End of Chicago's Public Housing

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

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 64 comments

Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts

http://ranf.tl/2014/12/23/self-hosting-google-web-fonts/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp

https://github.com/fukamachi/woo

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Common Lisp MIT
100 upvotes – 40 comments

Internal Versus External BLOBs in SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Would You Bet $100M on Your Pet Programming Language? (2007)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/13.html?

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

The Software Scientist

http://www.evanmiller.org/the-software-scientist.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Free speech is last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

Inferno OS

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InfernoOs

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 48 comments

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced by Software

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-away-jobs-2014-3

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

Fernvale: An Open Hardware and Software Platform

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6156.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

When you have to wake up earlier than usual

http://blog.42floors.com/waking-up-early/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

1MB+ of HTTP overhead due to TowerData cookies

http://bigqueri.es/t/1mb-of-http-overhead-due-to-towerdata-cookies/479

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Visual problems besetting Android's Lollipop

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/do-all-google-employees-have-perfect-eyesight/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

Statisticians in World War II

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636589-how-statisticians-changed-war-and-war-changed-statistics-they-also-served

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Downtown is for People (1958)

http://fortune.com/2011/09/18/downtown-is-for-people-fortune-classic-1958/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line

https://github.com/mmastrac/webfont-dl

12 years ago

★ 333 JavaScript
64 upvotes – 13 comments

Deterministic Lockstep for Networked Games

http://gafferongames.com/networked-physics/deterministic-lockstep/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/bies.201400071/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

The Worst Journalism of 2014

http://www.cjr.org/darts_and_laurels/the_worst_journalism_of_2014.php?page=all

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments
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