top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-01

Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/ai-weiwei-is-living-in-our-future-474e5dd15e4f

12 years ago

514 upvotes – 170 comments

Microcontrollers Not Allowed – Trolling a college instructor

http://ultrakeet.com.au/write-ups/microcontrollers-not-allowed

12 years ago

447 upvotes – 100 comments

Thunderstrike – Apple EFI firmware vulnerability

https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_31c3

12 years ago

392 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Snabbt.js – a minimalistic animation library

http://daniel-lundin.github.io/snabbt.js/cards.html

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 47 comments

What is special about Nim?

http://hookrace.net/blog/what-is-special-about-nim/

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 84 comments

Rise of the Scientific Programmer

http://byterot.blogspot.com/2015/01/future-of-programming-rise-of-the-scientific-developer-bigdata-datascience-machine-learning-and-fall-of-the-craftsman.html

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822808

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 330 comments

One day left to help Internet Archive reach its donation goal

https://archive.org/donate/?1

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 42 comments

Elasticsearch for Beginners: Indexing Your GMail Inbox

https://github.com/oliver006/elasticsearch-gmail

12 years ago

★ 2k Python
216 upvotes – 32 comments

What is going to happen in 2015

http://avc.com/2015/01/what-is-going-to-happen/

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 122 comments

Dark Mail Technical Alliance

http://darkmail.info/home.html

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 52 comments

Last Call: HTTP2

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014OctDec/0982.html

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 146 comments

A new Microsoft browser?

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2014/12/a_new_microsoft.html

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 121 comments

Fraud caused disappearance of 99% of Mt. Gox Bitcoins

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001825662

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 71 comments

Two-year-old Nexus 4 issue status changed to obsolete

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41626

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 85 comments

Confessions of a Car Salesman (2001)

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-salesman-pg2.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Should I report my main competitor for PCI Violations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8823760

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 126 comments

Your best passive income? (2015 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822151

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)

http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional-programming-be-liberated-from-the-von-neumann-paradigm

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 36 comments

Privoxy – a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities

http://www.privoxy.org/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwell

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-genius-and-faith-of-faraday-and-maxwell

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 78 comments

Brands pay Twitter to falsely appear in your following list

https://gigaom.com/2014/12/30/brands-pay-twitter-to-falsely-appear-in-your-following-list/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Pattern theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_theory

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 0 comments

Snapchat has raised $485M more from 23 investors

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/snapchat-485m/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 107 comments

F-35 stealth jet 'will not be able to fire its guns until 2019'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11319455/F-35-stealth-jet-will-not-be-able-to-fire-its-guns-until-2019.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 128 comments

U.S. cancer deaths have fallen 22% since 1991

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/31/us-cancer-casualties-idUSKBN0K918220141231

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go

https://gopee.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Something New in Garage Doors

http://www.davintosh.com/2015/01/01/something-new-in-garage-doors/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

Why people leave companies

http://qz.com/287876/this-is-why-people-leave-your-company/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824760

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822817

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 122 comments

Scientific Computing on the Erlang VM

http://blog.lfe.io/tutorials/2015/01/01/1215-scientific-computing-on-the-erlang-vm/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: How can I verify that WhatsApp uses E2E encryption?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822834

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

The Illustrated GHC [pdf]

http://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/haskell_ghc_illustrated.pdf

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/government-computer-security

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments
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