top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-29

Quake on an oscilloscope

http://lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html

12 years ago

859 upvotes – 70 comments

Nashville police chief shares message, responds to questions

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson/2014/12/26/nashville-police-chief-shares-message-responds-to-questions/20914171/

12 years ago

387 upvotes – 179 comments

Software engineers should write

http://www.shubhro.com/2014/12/27/software-engineers-should-write/

12 years ago

318 upvotes – 159 comments

The best things and stuff of 2014

http://blog.fogus.me/2014/12/29/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2014/

12 years ago

314 upvotes – 26 comments

How Paul Graham Is Wrong

http://ma.tt/2014/12/how-paul-graham-is-wrong/

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 198 comments

Gmail blocked in China

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/29/google-china-idUSL3N0UD21W20141229

12 years ago

261 upvotes – 179 comments

The Benefits of Being Cold

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/?single_page=true

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 176 comments

If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810157

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 73 comments

William Gibson: How I wrote Neuromancer

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/26/william-gibson-neuromancer-book-club

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 91 comments

On the new Snowden documents

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/12/on-new-snowden-documents.html

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 27 comments

Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

http://nim-lang.org/news.html#Z2014-12-29-version-0-10-2-released

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 140 comments

Julia is awesome, but..

http://danluu.com/julialang/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 66 comments

Copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master on Atari ST and Amiga

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/210

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 109 comments

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 26 comments

Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route

http://ains.co/blog/things-which-arent-magic-flask-part-1.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 33 comments

Everything we know Google is working on for the new year

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/12/google-tracker-2015-everything-google-is-working-on-for-the-new-year/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

VNC Roulette

https://srsly.de

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 66 comments

Nim Programming Language Tutorial

http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering company)”

https://stallman.org/uber.html

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 144 comments

Who Is Watching You?

https://medium.com/backchannel/who-is-watching-you-7296eeb036c1

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments
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