top 50% 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

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

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

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

“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

The CPAN Pull Request Challenge

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

Ruby talks of 2014

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

12 years ago

Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust

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

12 years ago

Static Linux

http://sta.li/

12 years ago

What Do We Want, Really?

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

12 years ago

NixOS 14.12 released

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

12 years ago

Line drawing on a grid

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

12 years ago

The two cultures of mathematics and biology

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

12 years ago

What Happened in 2014?

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

12 years ago

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

The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape

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

12 years ago

How Surround Sound for Headphones Works

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

12 years ago

Junction design in the Netherlands [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQMgbDJPok&feature=share

12 years ago

Rr records nondeterministic executions and debugs them deterministically

http://rr-project.org

12 years ago

Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/tesla-is-working-on-robotic-snakes-that-emerge-from-the-wall-to-charge-your-car/

12 years ago

Ask HN: How can I stop being jealous of people who succeed before me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8820511

12 years ago

Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1682

12 years ago

Don't React (Presentation - Use arrows to navigate)

http://staltz.com/dont-react/#/

12 years ago

F# 2014 – A Retrospective and Call to Action

http://reedcopsey.com/2014/12/31/fsharp-2014-a-retrospective-and-call-to-action/

12 years ago

Arctic Fibre Project to Link Japan and U.K

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/arctic-fibre-project-to-link-japan-and-uk

12 years ago

What happens to your bike after it’s stolen

http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/articles/this-is-what-happens-to-your-bike-after-its-stolen-october-2014

12 years ago

Eventual Consistency in Concurrent Data Structures

http://belliottsmith.com/eventual-consistency-concurrent-data-structures/

12 years ago

Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2014/12/30/why-remote-engineering-is-so-difficult/

12 years ago

Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1

http://www.willusher.io/2014/12/30/porting-a-ray-tracer-to-rust-part-1/

12 years ago

Nvidia Corporate Network Breached

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davelewis/2014/12/29/nvidia-corporate-network-breached/

12 years ago

Scaling CloudFlare's Massive WAF

http://www.scalescale.com/scaling-cloudflares-massive-waf/

12 years ago

Omniref (YC W15) Is Rap Genius for Code

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/yc-backed-omniref-is-rap-genius-for-code/

12 years ago

The Rise of the 1099 Economy: More Americans Are Becoming Their Own Bosses

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/07/25/the-rise-of-the-1099-economy-more-americans-are-becoming-their-own-bosses/

12 years ago

The wreck of the Kulluk

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/the-wreck-of-the-kulluk.html?_r=0

12 years ago

More Data on Attributing the Sony Attack

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/more_data_on_at.html

12 years ago

Designing Twilight Struggle, the top-ranked board game

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/

12 years ago

Native calls to Rust code from Java code

https://github.com/drrb/java-rust-example

12 years ago

★ 342 Java GPL-3.0

Show HN: Intentionally subtle headphone crossfeed filter

https://github.com/LnxPrgr3/crossfeed

12 years ago