top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-01

Leaving the Mac App Store

http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store

11 years ago

884 upvotes – 401 comments

A letter to our daughter

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-our-daughter/10153375081581634

11 years ago

790 upvotes – 518 comments

This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University

http://www.okwu.edu/blog/2015/11/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university/

11 years ago

729 upvotes – 672 comments

Linux Performance Analysis

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 82 comments

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/30/thunderbird-flies-away-from-mozilla/

11 years ago

444 upvotes – 433 comments

WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

https://orat.io/blog/as-of-today-whatsapp-is-blocking-telegram-links/

11 years ago

433 upvotes – 226 comments

Three Stories

http://justinkan.com/three-stories

11 years ago

392 upvotes – 47 comments

Next Generation Eclipse IDE

https://eclipse.org/che/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 202 comments

Flexbox Froggy: A game for learning CSS flexbox

http://flexboxfroggy.com/

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 69 comments

Someone left my Gmail in debug mode

https://medium.com/@zg/someone-left-my-gmail-in-debug-mode-8aa1b1c46172

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10655740

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 427 comments

The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18343/the-cannons-on-the-b-29-bomber-were-a-mid-century-engineering-masterpiece/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 90 comments

Google Deceptively Tracks Students’ Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks-students-internet-browsing-eff-says-complaint-federal-trade

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 98 comments

GitHub's Metal Cloud

http://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 80 comments

Anti-Disassembly techniques used by malware

http://malwinator.com/anti-disassembly-used-in-malware-a-primer/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 25 comments

Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison

http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 57 comments

Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

https://medium.com/@metabase/why-we-picked-clojure-448bf759dc83#.w1uqkz6sp

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 183 comments

Why CardDAV took so long

https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/12/01/a-tangled-path-of-workarounds/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 67 comments

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 28 comments

On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09249

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 3 comments

Guide to Personal Productivity Methods

https://blog.todoist.com/2015/11/30/ultimate-guide-personal-productivity-methods/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 45 comments

The Mysterious Aging of Astronauts

http://lemire.me/blog/2015/12/01/the-mysterious-aging-of-astronauts/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 55 comments

The Peculiar Ascent of Bill Murray to Secular Saint

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/the-peculiar-ascent-of-bill-murray-to-secular-saint.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 80 comments

Python List Comprehensions Explained Visually

http://treyhunner.com/2015/12/python-list-comprehensions-now-in-color/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

Why FPGA manufacturers keep their bitstream formats secret

http://www.megacz.com/thoughts/bitstream.secrecy.html

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gravity-ceo-dan-price/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 88 comments

I bought HitTail (a SaaS app) in 2011, grew it, and sold it last week

http://blog.hittail.com/2015/12/meet-the-new-hittail-team.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 58 comments

Faking the TCP handshake

http://lgms.nl/blog-2

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

A punishing South Korean work culture is gradually being relaxed

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21679214-punishing-work-culture-gradually-being-relaxed-loosening-their-ties?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/looseningtheirties

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Browse the archived web the old way: 13 emulated browsers in your browser

http://oldweb.today/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Human Error in Software

http://soveran.com/human-error.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Visual Hunt – 354M Free Creative Commons Photos and CC0

http://visualhunt.com/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Pursuit of Serverless Architecture: What if we didn't need app servers anymore?

https://medium.com/in-pursuit-of-serverless-architecture/what-if-we-didn-t-need-an-app-server-anymore-f5b6586c58f4

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Adobe Animate CC, a New Era for Flash Professional

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashpro/welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-new-era-for-flash-professional/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year

https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/280996

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 147 comments

Flash, HTML5 and Open Web Standards

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

Conan – C/C++ package manager

https://www.conan.io/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

The Dawn of the Space Mining Age

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-dawn-of-the-space-mining-age/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Freecol – open source colonization game

http://www.freecol.org/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Japan's Cute Army

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/japans-cute-army?mbid=social_twitter

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web

https://hypothes.is/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

SEC charges GAW Miners and ZenMiner as a Ponzi scheme [pdf]

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp23415.pdf

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Chilling Effects Announces New Name and International Partnerships

https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/763

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

I feel therefore I am

https://aeon.co/essays/how-and-why-exactly-did-consciousness-become-a-problem

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments

Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/11/unnoticed-leak-answers-and-raises.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Whale Fall

http://granta.com/whale-fall/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Google is ramping up hiring for its plan to make 'energy kites'

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-makani-hiring-2015-12

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

Developing a computational pipeline using the asyncio module in Python 3

http://www.pythonsandbarracudas.com/blog/2015/11/22/developing-a-computational-pipeline-using-the-asyncio-module-in-python-3

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

The Cavendish banana is slowly but surely being driven to extinction

http://qz.com/559579/the-worlds-favorite-fruit-is-slowly-but-surely-being-driven-to-extinction/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments
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