top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-05

A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/begich-towers-whittier-alaska/

12 years ago

Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/

12 years ago

Apple has lost the functional high ground

http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground

12 years ago

Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/arts/writers-say-they-feel-censored-by-surveillance.html?_r=0

12 years ago

How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/107245431809/how-software-in-half-of-nyc-cabs-generates-5-2

12 years ago

Show HN: WordsAPI

https://www.wordsapi.com/

12 years ago

Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data

http://www.ifc0nfig.com/moonpig-vulnerability/

12 years ago

Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of Andromeda Galaxy

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1502/

12 years ago

Introducing Google Cast for audio

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/01/introducing-google-cast-for-audio.html

12 years ago

Wit.ai (YC W14) Is Joining Facebook

https://wit.ai/blog/2015/01/05/wit-ai-facebook

12 years ago

BLOKK – A font for clients who don't understand lorem ipsum

http://blokkfont.com/

12 years ago

The 2014 Panic Report

http://www.panic.com/blog/the-2014-panic-report/

12 years ago

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html

12 years ago

A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat

12 years ago

What Is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get It Wrong

http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2015/01/05/what-is-aging-most-scientists-still-get-it-wrong/

12 years ago

Bitstamp Accounts Frozen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8837432

12 years ago

Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325&

12 years ago

Almost No Patented Discoveries Get Used

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/fixing-broken-patent-system/

12 years ago

Corman Lisp sources are now available

http://lispblog.xach.com/post/107215169193/corman-lisp-sources-are-now-available

12 years ago

Cactus for Mac – A fast, easy and free static site generator

http://cactusformac.com/

12 years ago