top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-28

Look, no hands

http://looknohands.me/

12 years ago

Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html

12 years ago

Neat Algorithms: Paxos

http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/?hn=1

12 years ago

List of Computer Science Courses

https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

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MozJPEG 3.0

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/mozjpeg-3-0/

12 years ago

Chrome DevTools outside of the browser

https://kenneth.io/blog/2014/12/28/taking-chrome-devtools-outside-the-browser/

12 years ago

James Golick has died

https://twitter.com/jill380/status/548978785404874753

12 years ago

From Gongkai to Open Source

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

12 years ago

On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/27/on-immigration-engineers-simply-dont-trust-vcs/

12 years ago

That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720-britains-payment-is-coming.html

12 years ago

Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/cracking-the-sitcom-code/384068/?single_page=true

12 years ago

What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/15/what-if-finlands-great-teachers-taught-in-u-s-schools-not-what-you-think/

12 years ago

Microservices – Not a free lunch

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html

12 years ago

Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay

http://openbay.isohunt.to

12 years ago

My OpenBSD Story

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/605

12 years ago

The World of Linux System Calls

http://sysdigcloud.com/fascinating-world-linux-system-calls/

12 years ago

What is good running technique?

http://www.runningtechniquebook.com/chapter-4-what-is-good-running-technique/

12 years ago

Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950

12 years ago

A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

12 years ago

“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2014/12/the-great-plate-count-anomaly-that-is-no-more.html#re

12 years ago

A tale of two’s complement

http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/a-tale-of-twos-complement/1062

12 years ago

Psychologists Strike a Blow for Reproducibility (2013)

http://www.nature.com/news/psychologists-strike-a-blow-for-reproducibility-1.14232/

12 years ago

One Frickin' User Interface for Linux (2003)

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Hugh.Fisher/writing/1fui.html

12 years ago

The X-15, the fastest manned aircraft ever made

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-best-photos-of-the-x-15-fastest-manned-aircraft-ev-1675268839

12 years ago

The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’

http://nytimes.com/2014/12/27/opinion/the-slow-death-of-do-not-track.html

12 years ago

Redesiging a Broken Internet: Cory Doctorow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y

12 years ago

How Instacart Built Its On-Demand Grocery Delivery Service

http://stackshare.io/posts/the-tech-behind-instacarts-grocery-delivery-service

12 years ago

German Defense Minister's Fingerprint Copied by Chaos Computer Club

http://www.dw.de/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-fingerprint-copied-by-chaos-computer-club/a-18154832

12 years ago

Distributed Python for the Erlang Ecosystem

https://github.com/lfex/py

12 years ago

★ 221 Erlang

Jeff Hawkins: Brains, Data, and Machine Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-3WDdqbj0

12 years ago

Scalatex: Type-safe, programmable documents

https://github.com/lihaoyi/Scalatex

12 years ago

★ 291 Scala

How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/523326/how-google-cracked-house-number-identification-in-street-view/

12 years ago

Gödel's ontological proof

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_ontological_proof

12 years ago

My favorite Erlang program (2013)

http://joearms.github.io/2013/11/21/My-favorite-erlang-program.html

12 years ago