top 50% 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

Announcing LTS Haskell 1.0

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

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

CGI Using Node.js

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

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 84 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

Introduction to Category Theory

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/cat.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos

http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 17 comments

The Story of Schiit Audio (2014)

http://www.head-fi.org/t/701900/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Brazen Attempts by Hotels to Block Wi-Fi

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/brazen-attempts-by-hotels-to-block-wi-fi.html?rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 72 comments

Hvdos, a simple DOS emulator based on the OS X Hypervisor.framework

https://github.com/mist64/hvdos

12 years ago

★ 445 C BSD-2-Clause
84 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Build a Pinball Machine

https://howtobuildapinballmachine.wordpress.com/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

The difference between top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing

http://qntm.org/top

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

What's the cheapest living situation possible that still has basic utilities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836398

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 106 comments

Gallery of animations that explain math ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 1 comments

Admitting Defeat on K&R in LCTHW

http://zedshaw.com/2015/01/04/admitting-defeat-on-kr-in-lcthw/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

The Case Against Credentialism (1985)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1985/12/the-case-against-credentialism/308286/?single_page=true

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

What is it about the financial sector that encourages bad behavior?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/banking-culture-encourages-dishonesty/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Her Task Is to Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/politics/her-task-weaning-the-white-house-off-floppy-disks.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Self Hell in Python

http://kmkeen.com/self-hell/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 89 comments

Unhosted web apps: freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms

https://unhosted.org/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

https://medium.com/matter/how-britain-exported-next-generation-surveillance-d15b5801b79e

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 78 comments

Exploring Flow, Facebook's Type Checker for JavaScript

http://www.crmarsh.com/flow/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Tech billionaires have a lot in common with previous capitalist titans

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21637338-todays-tech-billionaires-have-lot-common-previous-generation-capitalist?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/robberbaronsandsiliconsultans

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Building a Weather Station

http://www.drbunsen.org/building-a-weather-station/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

The Large Hadron Collider sets its sights on dark matter

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/04/large-hadron-collider-refit-dark-matter

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

At Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, MBA startup fever takes hold

http://fortune.com/2015/01/03/business-school-startups-entrepreneurs/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 61 comments

The Rust Belt Theory of Low-Cost High Culture

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/01/cheap_high_culture_in_baltimore_buffalo_detroit_and_other_midsize_cities.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

What Made OO Be Successful

http://rbrogan.github.io/what-made-oo-be-successful.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 69 comments

Deconstructing K&R C (2010)

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Formula 1 Lap Charts

http://davidor.github.io/formula1-lap-charts

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments
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