top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-12-31

India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141231/02075529554/indian-government-orders-32-web-sites-blocked-including-github-archiveorg-pastebin-dailymotion-vimeo.shtml

12 years ago

796 upvotes – 298 comments

Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You

https://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2014/12/30/why-deleting-sensitive-information-from-github-doesnt-save-you/

12 years ago

313 upvotes – 82 comments

MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby

http://rubini.us/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-use-rubyspec/

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 112 comments

A Magician’s Best Trick: Revealing a Basic Human Bias

http://www.wsj.com/articles/confirmation-bias-is-a-basic-human-frailty-1420045281?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_1

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 63 comments

“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/31/7471901/i-cant-stop-comparing-everything-to-black-mirror

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 61 comments

The CPAN Pull Request Challenge

http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 47 comments

The End of Gangs

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/the-end-of-gangs-los-angeles-southern-california-epidemic-crime-95498/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent of Captured Light into Heat

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1589

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 89 comments

Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore

http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/hidden-costs-that-engineers-ignore?utm_source=Founder+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1a5eed15d1-Founder_Weekly_Issue_163_December_31_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_286b01fd3e-1a5eed15d1-331306269

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments

Ruby talks of 2014

http://przemekmroczek.com/post/106717411075/5-killer-ruby-talks-of-2014

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/000119312514457552/d721187ds1a.htm

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 98 comments

Static Linux

http://sta.li/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 57 comments

What Do We Want, Really?

http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/12/31/what-do-we-want-really/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

NixOS 14.12 released

http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2014-December/015411.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

Line drawing on a grid

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/line-drawing.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 21 comments

The two cultures of mathematics and biology

http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-cultures-of-mathematics-and-biology/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 69 comments

What Happened in 2014?

http://avc.com/2014/12/what-just-happened/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Sweden Has So Few Road Deaths

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-16?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whyswedenhassofewroaddeaths

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 244 comments

The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape

http://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-invented-scotch-tape/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

How Surround Sound for Headphones Works

http://hajo.me/blog/2014/12/28/how-surround-sound-for-headphones-works/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments
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