top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-01

Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/

11 years ago

Get your loved ones off Facebook

http://saintsal.com/facebook/

11 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980047

11 years ago

My Gravity lawsuit and how it affects every writer who sells to Hollywood

http://www.tessgerritsen.com/gravity-lawsuit-affects-every-writer-sells-hollywood/

11 years ago

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351?repost=HN2

11 years ago

Mkcast – GIF terminal screencasts with key presses overlaid

https://github.com/KeyboardFire/mkcast

11 years ago

★ 3k Python

Some notes on Rust

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5113

11 years ago

Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

http://scienceblog.com/76752/army-open-sources-cyber-defense-code-new-github-project/

11 years ago

Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger

http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/

11 years ago

Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015

http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/fosdem-2015-its-christmas.html

11 years ago

The Secret History of Silicon Valley (2010)

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

11 years ago

Atlassian HipChat was breached. Time to reset your password.

https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/02/01/hipchat-security-notice-and-password-reset/

11 years ago

Super easy project planning and estimation

http://geon.github.io/estimator/

11 years ago

Syntax across languages

http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/

11 years ago

Webseclab – Web security test cases and a construction toolkit

https://github.com/yahoo/webseclab

11 years ago

★ 908 Go BSD-3-Clause

Microsoft Makes Clever Moves

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/02/01/microsoft-makes-clever-moves/

11 years ago

Go Koans

https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans

11 years ago

★ 2k Go MIT

WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate

https://www.ohling.org/blog/2015/02/wosign-free-2y-ssl-certificate.html

11 years ago

Some disasters caused by numerical errors

http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/users/vuik/wi211/disasters.html

11 years ago

The Raccoon Princess and the Fox Prince: A Bayesian Parable

http://cassandraxia.com/projs/raccoon/

11 years ago

Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/yuan

11 years ago

Maxwell's equations predict that the speed of light is constant

http://proofs.wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations_predict_that_the_speed_of_light_is_constant

11 years ago

Latin Lives

http://www.thenation.com/article/196177/latin-lives

11 years ago

The Swedish Schindler who disappeared

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30934452

11 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980054

11 years ago

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980065

11 years ago

PyDark – 2D Game Framework

http://www.pydark.com/

11 years ago

Security Reward Programs: Year in Review, Year in Preview

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/01/security-reward-programs-year-in-review.html

11 years ago

Git: ignore file lines

http://benmezger.me/post/109706270421/git-ignore-file-lines

11 years ago

The Army of the New Independents

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-army-of-the-new-independents

11 years ago

Memory matters, even in Erlang (2010)

http://www.lshift.net/blog/2010/02/28/memory-matters-even-in-erlang/?repost=HN

11 years ago

Cultures of Code

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2015/1/cultures-of-code/99999

11 years ago

The Selling of the Avocado

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-selling-of-the-avocado/385047/?single_page=true

11 years ago

The Multiverse and you – Is there another version of you somewhere out there?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-73-the-multiverse-and-you-46c9e3c493e2

11 years ago

Little Known Ways to Think about Discipline

http://7goldfish.com/Little%20know%20ways%20to%20think%20about%20dicipline

11 years ago