top 50% 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

673 upvotes – 177 comments

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

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

12 years ago

472 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple has lost the functional high ground

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

12 years ago

453 upvotes – 325 comments

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

270 upvotes – 132 comments

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

268 upvotes – 218 comments

Show HN: WordsAPI

https://www.wordsapi.com/

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 75 comments

Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data

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

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 121 comments

Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of Andromeda Galaxy

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

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 62 comments

Introducing Google Cast for audio

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

12 years ago

232 upvotes – 166 comments

Wit.ai (YC W14) Is Joining Facebook

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

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 50 comments

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

http://blokkfont.com/

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 65 comments

The 2014 Panic Report

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

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

What most young programmers need to learn

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

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 106 comments

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

203 upvotes – 109 comments

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

197 upvotes – 130 comments

Bitstamp Accounts Frozen

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

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 107 comments

Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)

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

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 56 comments

Almost No Patented Discoveries Get Used

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

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 129 comments

Corman Lisp sources are now available

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

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 27 comments

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

http://cactusformac.com/

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Google broke telephony for many Nexus users

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 112 comments

Pokémon plays Twitch: How a robot got IRC running on an unmodified SNES

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-how-a-robot-got-irc-running-on-an-unmodified-snes/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 27 comments

Now available: auto-scaling PostgreSQL deployments

https://blog.compose.io/new-year-new-database-postgresql-on-compose/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 46 comments

Disneyland with the Death Penalty (1993)

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 71 comments

Coder's Rights Project – Reverse Engineering FAQ

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

The MS-DOS Showcase

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4487

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains

https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551083956326920192/photo/1

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/skill_matching.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 98 comments

Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (2012)

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-why-products-fail/all/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be Toughest Progresses Slowly

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/sports/on-el-capitans-dawn-wall-two-climbers-make-slow-progress-toward-a-dream.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/30/us/ap-us-georgia-website-hack.html?_r=0

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments

Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition

http://battlecode.org/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

All About Angular 2.0 (2014)

http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/all-about-angular-2-0/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 59 comments

CSS changes that increased Reddit account creation by 200K yearly users

http://www.donotlick.com/2015/01/05/8-increase-in-reddit-account-registrations/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

Monoids, Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: Main Ideas

http://monadmadness.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/monoids-functors-applicatives-and-monads-10-main-ideas/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Scikit-learn: machine learning in Python

http://scikit-learn.org/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Profile of Ted Chiang: The Perfectionist

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/ted-chiang-scifi-perfectionist/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

The future of work: There’s an app for that

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21637355-freelance-workers-available-moments-notice-will-reshape-nature-companies-and

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

RFC Reader

http://www.rfcreader.com/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Dish Network Announces Web-Based Pay TV Offering

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/business/media/dish-network-announces-web-based-pay-tv-offering.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v3.0 (OTR + Tor + XMPP)

https://chatsecure.org/blog/chatsecure-ios-v3-released/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Onewheel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqOU4jx62I

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Diversity of the Mind

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/01/diversity_of_th.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

The Numbotron

http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-numbotron/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 0 comments

Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/01/why-were-not-going-to-see-sub-.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 74 comments

Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript

http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/smalltalk-mvc-translated-to-javascript#r

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Cathedrals, Bazaars, and in Between

http://third-bit.com/2015/01/05/cathedrals-bazaars-and-in-between.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Forbes 30 under 30 2015

http://www.forbes.com/30under30/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

CGI: Ruby's Bare Metal

http://www.mikeperham.com/2015/01/05/cgi-rubys-bare-metal/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/one-airline-figured-out-how-to-make-sure-its-airplanes-never-disappear/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 60 comments

Deep Space – A Simulation Drama [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJPilemNns

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

How to ask users for iOS permissions

https://medium.com/@mulligan/the-right-way-to-ask-users-for-ios-permissions-96fa4eb54f2c

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Multi-User Video Conference with WebRTC

https://mgechev-webrtc.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 29 comments

Nvidia Tegra X1 Preview and Architecture Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8811/nvidia-tegra-x1-preview

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Summary of Go Generics Discussions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX4pi-HnNjkMEgyAHX4N4/edit?pli=1

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 83 comments

Netflix restricts streaming from abroad

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/05/technology/netflix-vpn/index.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

Story Worth – privately collect and share family stories

https://www.storyworth.com

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments
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