top 50% 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

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

On the new Snowden documents

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

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 27 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

Show HN: New Hacker News web client

http://hack.ernews.info/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 81 comments

King of Clickbait

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

It’s Not Too Late for Uber to Avoid Stupid Patent of the Month

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/spirit-holidays-its-not-too-late-uber-avoid-stupid-patent-month

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Math from Three to Seven: Chapters One and Three [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/mcl-5-prev.pdf

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

The Future of Meat Is Plant-Based Burgers

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/culinary/Replacing-Meat-Plant-Based-Meats-Vegetarian.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 92 comments

OpenELEC 5.0

http://openelec.tv/news/22-releases/153-openelec-5-0-released

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression

http://bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=fundamentals-of-data-compression

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat

http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/how-learning-to-code-kept-me-sane/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 46 comments

It's Almost 2015. Update Your Footer

http://updateyourfooter.com/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30623611

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments

A comforting lie

http://www.dansdata.com/gz148.htm

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopters

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/finney-swat/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

Diary of a little girl in old New York (1919)

https://archive.org/details/diaryoflittlegir00haven

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

The Implications of Facebook Indexing a Trillion Posts

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/28/mining-the-hive-mind/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

ECMAScript 6: new OOP features besides classes

http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/es6-oop.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

My weekly newsletter about LLVM/Clang has been running for one year

http://llvmweekly.org/issue/52

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

Some gripes about nacl

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/some-gripes-about-nacl

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Introduction to Microcontrollers (2007) [pdf]

http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/ecs/teaching/courses/mclu/theory-material/Microcontroller.pdf

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

The New Computer Chess World Champion

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/the-new-chess-world-champion/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

The Weirdness of 50s Bomb Shelters

http://allday.com/post/1192-the-weirdness-of-50s-bomb-shelters

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Gun Trouble

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/gun-trouble/383508/?single_page=true

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Revitalise your CV – Simple resume-editing tool

http://cvtalize.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

31c3 videos are up

http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2014/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Some Thoughts on Founder Liquidity

http://avc.com/2014/12/some-thoughts-on-founder-liquidity/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

Curated List of Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff

https://github.com/kozross/awesome-cl

12 years ago

★ 2.9k Makefile
64 upvotes – 1 comments

Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-building-a-new-browser-as-part-of-its-windows-10-push/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments

Blimps Protecting Washington, D.C

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040209/there-are-secret-blimps-protecting-washington-dc

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Crowdfunding is too expensive

http://ink.hackeress.com/2014/12/crowdfunding-is-too-expensive-payments.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments

Symbols in ECMAScript 6

http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/es6-symbols.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments
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