top 50% 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

Debugging Node.js in Production

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

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 72 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

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

Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/towns-want-verizon-investigated-for-abandoning-networks-through-neglect/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 117 comments

The Last Dalai Lama?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/the-last-dalai-lama.html?_r=0

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 76 comments

What Holds Me Back from ClojureScript

http://jaredforsyth.com/2015/11/26/What-holds-me-back-from-Clojurescript/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

Self hosted C – breakdown

http://achacompilers.blogspot.com/2015/12/self-hosted-c-breakdown.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Android Audio Latency

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/13/android-audio-latency-in-depth-its-getting-better-especially-with-the-nexus-5x-and-6p/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

Let’s encrypt automation on Debian

http://eblog.damia.net/2015/12/03/lets-encrypt-automation-on-debian/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

The search for a faster CRC32

https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/12/03/the-search-for-a-faster-crc32/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

What is Color Banding? And what is it not?

http://simonschreibt.de/gat/colorbanding/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Why a German billionaire says that pledges like Mark Zuckerberg’s are really bad

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/why-some-people-feel-billionaire-pledges-like-mark-zuckerbergs-are-really-bad/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 216 comments

Transformation at Yahoo Foiled by Its Leader’s Inability to Bet the Farm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/technology/transformation-at-yahoo-foiled-by-its-leaders-inability-to-bet-the-farm.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

Bob Ross's Strange Afterlife

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/bob-ross-the-joy-of-painting.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Employee Equity Is Broken – Here's Our Fix

https://amplitude.com/blog/2015/12/01/employee-equity-is-broken-heres-our-fix/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 100 comments

“I was sued for sounding like myself”

https://readthink.com/i-was-sued-for-sounding-like-myself-da089f34d953#.lzk66uqbc

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Hawaii Court Rescinds Permit to Build Thirty Meter Telescope

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/science/space/hawaii-court-rescinds-permit-to-build-thirty-meter-telescope.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (1978) [pdf]

https://www.ida.liu.se/ext/caisor/archive/1978/001/caisor-1978-001.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

Hot code reloading with Erlang

https://medium.com/@kansi/hot-code-loading-with-erlang-and-rebar3-8252af16605b#.985ei76fw

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Experiments in Code Typography (2014)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming/typography.aspx

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Rcon: a lightweight resource virtualization tool for Linux processes

https://github.com/matsumoto-r/rcon

11 years ago

★ 378 Ruby
73 upvotes – 8 comments

Build your own Twitch using MPEG-DASH and HLS live streaming

https://www.bitcodin.com/blog/2015/11/mpeg-dash-and-hls-live-streaming-with-bitcodin/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy Uses L.L.C. For More Control

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/technology/zuckerbergs-philanthropy-uses-llc-for-more-control.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 114 comments

Uber Raises Funding at $62.5B Valuation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/uber-raises-funding-at-62-5-valuation

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 100 comments

Lyft, Didi, Ola and GrabTaxi Partner in Global Tech, Alliance to Rival Uber

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/lyft-didi-ola-and-grabtaxi-partner-in-global-tech-service-alliance-to-rival-uber/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

OpenPrescribing: England's medication prescription data

https://openprescribing.net/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

L-Theanine Experiment (1 Month)

http://doubleblinded.com/experiments/l-theanine-experiment-1-month

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

DagCoin: a cryptocurrency without blocks

https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/dagcoin/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments
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