top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-04

Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

http://wozniak.ca/why-i-quit-os-x

12 years ago

454 upvotes – 495 comments

Why Rosyna Can't Take a Movie Screenshot

http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/why-rosyna-cant-take-a-movie-screenshot.html

12 years ago

367 upvotes – 150 comments

Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies by 50 percent by doing nothing

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/01/02/kyoto-taxi-drivers-reduce-convenience-store-robberies-50-percent-by-doing-absolutely-nothing/

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 145 comments

Why are free proxies free? (2013)

https://blog.haschek.at/post/fd9bc

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 82 comments

StackExchange System Architecture

http://stackexchange.com/performance#

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 96 comments

Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD

http://homing-on-code.blogspot.com/2015/01/code-rot-openbsd.html

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

NixOS and Stateless Deployment

http://gfxmonk.net/2015/01/03/nixos-and-stateless-deployment.html

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 62 comments

Facebook is the new AOL

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7488495/facebook-is-the-new-aol

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 80 comments

Wifiphisher: Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks

https://github.com/sophron/wifiphisher

12 years ago

★ 14.5k Python GPL-3.0
189 upvotes – 55 comments

When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw

http://www.laweekly.com/publicspectacle/2014/12/31/when-a-cartoonist-landed-in-la-county-jail-she-drew-what-she-saw-using-only-a-golf-pencil?showFullText=true

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 112 comments

The Game AI Programmer's Bookshelf

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/aibooks.html

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 19 comments

How My Mom Got Hacked

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/how-my-mom-got-hacked.html

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 108 comments

Linux kernel booting process, part 1

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/linux-bootstrap-1.md

12 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
155 upvotes – 18 comments

Run Crouton in a Chrome OS Window

https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/JDVkXALPcNq

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 17 comments

OS Technologies to Watch

http://gfxmonk.net/2015/01/04/os-technologies-to-watch.html

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework

http://falconframework.org/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 75 comments

CGI Using Node.js

http://www.cgi-node.org/home

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 84 comments

Announcing LTS Haskell 1.0

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/01/announcing-lts-haskell-1-0

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/04/depression-allergic-reaction-inflammation-immune-system

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 95 comments

FlickSurfer – a way to find Netflix gems

http://flicksurfer.com/

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments
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