top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-30

Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

http://ifixit.org/blog/6882/why-i-drilled-holes-in-my-macbook-pro-and-put-it-in-the-oven/

12 years ago

621 upvotes – 372 comments

Saving a Project and a Company

http://jacquesmattheij.com/saving-a-project-and-a-company

12 years ago

425 upvotes – 130 comments

My Amazon S3 Mistake

http://www.devfactor.net/2014/12/30/2375-amazon-mistake/

12 years ago

349 upvotes – 165 comments

How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-as-fast/

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 132 comments

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257&ref=fullrss

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 132 comments

How to Learn Efficiently

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/12/30/how-to-learn-efficiently/

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 69 comments

World War II Battle When Americans and Germans Fought Together (2013)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/12/world-war-ii-s-strangest-battle-when-americans-and-germans-fought-together.html

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 42 comments

The Death of Cocoa

http://nshipster.com/the-death-of-cocoa/

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 110 comments

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=sm_fb

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 160 comments

Everyday hassles in Go

http://crufter.com/2014/12/01/everyday-hassles-in-go/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 291 comments

Sony Reveals an Even Bigger Attack on the Internet – the MPAA Is Behind It

http://blog.opendns.com/2014/12/30/sony-reveals-even-bigger-attack-internet-time-mpaa-behind/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 75 comments

Deep Learning Reading List

http://jmozah.github.io/links/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 13 comments

Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7agl-sNLXMI

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 84 comments

Problems with the Golang runtime and toolchain

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 73 comments

PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

http://pathgather.github.io/please-wait/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 81 comments

Secrets of Intel Management Engine – Hidden code in your chipset

http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

Generation JavaScript

http://manuel.bernhardt.io/2014/12/30/generation-javascript/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 147 comments

Python: Faster Way

http://pythonfasterway.uni.me/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

This year in side projects

http://www.ianww.com/blog/2014/12/30/this-year-in-side-projects-2014/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

John Carmack Q&A

http://fortune.com/2014/12/29/oculus-vr-john-carmack-extended

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Programming Computer Vision with Python

http://programmingcomputervision.com/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

Skiplagged sued by United and Orbitz

https://skiplagged.com

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 140 comments

We're all communication hoarders

http://www.aaronkharris.com/were-all-communication-hoarders-so-what

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

United Airlines sues hidden-city ticketing search site

http://fox13now.com/2014/12/29/united-airlines-sues-22-year-old-who-found-method-for-buying-cheaper-plane-tickets/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 2 comments

Mae Keane, the Last 'Radium Girl,' Dies at 107

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-the-last-radium-girl-dies-at-107

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

A gentle introduction to elliptic-curve cryptography [video]

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6369_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412272145_-_ecchacks_-_djb_-_tanja_lange.html#video

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Fin – Keith Wesolowski retires

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

Working with queue and stack people

http://marcesher.com/2014/08/18/working-with-queue-and-stack-people/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

In his garage lab, Omahan aims to bend fabric of space

http://www.omaha.com/living/working-toward-a-warp-drive-in-his-garage-lab-omahan/article_b6489acf-5622-5419-ac18-0c44474da9c9.html?mode=jqm

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/attachments/2022_11-ccc-qcombbdbg.pdf

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

How workers ended up in cubes – and how they could break free

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21637359-how-workers-ended-up-cubesand-how-they-could-break-free-inside-box

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Foldit – A game that contributes to protein folding research

http://fold.it/portal/info/about

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Dark Internet Mail Environment: Architecture and Specifications [pdf]

https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environment-december-2014.pdf

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Nim Advocacy and Promotion Strategies

http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/671

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 58 comments

PHP Install Statistics

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/12/php-install-statistics.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Real-World JavaScript Anti-Patterns

http://blog.javascripting.com/2014/11/06/real-world-javascript-anti-patterns/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Travel firms sue creator of cheap airfare site

http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-30634144

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

BBS – Text-Only Online Community

http://bigboringsystem.com/discover

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Towards the Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon

http://hackaday.com/2014/12/19/nist-randomness-beacon/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Instacart (YC S12) Scores $220M Investment

http://recode.net/2014/12/30/grocery-delivery-startup-instacart-scores-220-million-investment/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

http://www.hashtagstartup.co/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: LambdaNet – A functional neural network library written in Haskell

https://github.com/jbarrow/LambdaNet

12 years ago

★ 383 Haskell MIT
56 upvotes – 7 comments

Advanced Off-the-Shelf Targeted Attacks Against Nation States [video]

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6575_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412272300_-_rocket_kitten_advanced_off-the-shelf_targeted_attacks_against_nation_states_-_tw_-_gadi.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies

http://www.hajoheadphone.com/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 57 comments

Five Popular Myths about C++: Postscript

http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/five-popular-myths-about-c-bjarne-stroustrup

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 38 comments

Driving Range for the Tesla Model S Family

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/driving-range-model-s-family

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments
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