top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-12-03

Swift is Open Source

https://swift.org/

11 years ago

1824 upvotes – 432 comments

Entering Public Beta

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html

11 years ago

1249 upvotes – 213 comments

Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematical-mysteries/

11 years ago

403 upvotes – 132 comments

Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap

http://twitter.github.io/labella.js/

11 years ago

375 upvotes – 77 comments

Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=36762

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 209 comments

HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-http2/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 69 comments

Kickstarter is Debt

https://blog.bolt.io/kickstarter-is-debt-e3b6a70ce180

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 58 comments

Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata

https://github.com/davidlazar/vuvuzela

11 years ago

★ 2.4k Go
243 upvotes – 30 comments

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral.html

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 93 comments

A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)

http://darrenhobbs.com/2006/04/22/a-bad-citizen-in-javaland/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 63 comments

Facebook Sponsors Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/facebook-sponsorship.html

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 50 comments

French Uber drivers have created their own Uber

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/9841562/french-uber-drivers-launch-app-vtc-cab

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 186 comments

Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/12/the-frbny-dsge-model-meets-julia.html#.VmBiFd-rQ6g

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 88 comments

Debugging Node.js in Production

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/debugging-nodejs-in-production.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 72 comments

Remove the ++ and –- operators

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0004-remove-pre-post-inc-decrement.md

11 years ago

★ 15.8k Markdown Apache-2.0
171 upvotes – 240 comments

Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World's Exit from Fossil Fuels

http://fortune.com/2015/12/02/elon-musk-carbon-tax-paris/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 128 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

A radically simple idea may open the door to a new world of antibiotics

http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/03/antibiotics-bacteria-research/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 69 comments

GC and Rust Part 1: Specifying the Problem

http://blog.pnkfx.org/blog/2015/11/10/gc-and-rust-part-1-specing-the-problem/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 23 comments

Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Tree Lecture

http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=8632047

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments
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