top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-04

Open source software for developing world hospitals

http://hospitalrun.io/

11 years ago

458 upvotes – 112 comments

The Fall and Rise of SVG

http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-of-svg/

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny

11 years ago

★ 4.7k Python MIT
280 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2015/12/03/introducing-the-ibm-swift-sandbox/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 59 comments

Car turns driver in for hit-and-run

http://www.wpbf.com/news/car-turns-driver-in-for-hitandrun/36755942

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 246 comments

Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidance scheme?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/12/03/is-the-new-zuckerberg-fake-charity-an-estate-tax-avoidance-scheme/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 211 comments

Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 205 comments

Advent of Code – solve a puzzle every day

http://adventofcode.com/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 47 comments

HFS+ is crazy

http://liminality.xyz/hfs-is-crazy/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 203 comments

Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2015/12/learn-to-code-its-harder-than-you-think.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 191 comments

Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to terror

http://www.politico.eu/article/us-senator-warns-eu-against-dragnet-response-to-terror/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 80 comments

Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming

https://medium.com/backchannel/big-cable-s-sledgehammer-is-coming-down-2c6854e8bea9#.g30nbcv3y

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 73 comments

TPP Threatens Security and Safety by Locking Down US Policy on Source Code Audit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-threatens-security-and-safety-locking-down-us-policy-source-code-audit

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

KiCad 4.0.0 is Out

http://kicad-pcb.org/post/release-4.0.0/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 37 comments

Let's Encrypt Stats

https://letsencrypt.org/stats/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/holometer-rules-out-first-theory-of-space-time-correlations

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

https://medium.com/@singuerinc/i-installed-coreos-in-9-years-old-macbook-3aec88489090#.djmramizx

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy

http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-facts-about-student-data-privacy-in.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/12/04/introducing-clang-with-microsoft-codegen-in-vs-2015-update-1.aspx

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

http://www.pnas.org/lens/pnas/111/47/16647

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 70 comments

Phan by Etsy – A Static Analyzer for PHP 7+

https://github.com/etsy/phan

11 years ago

★ 5.6k PHP
113 upvotes – 60 comments

Men at work

https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-age-of-austerity

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 74 comments

The Curious Case of Linux Containers

https://medium.com/@sumbry/the-curious-case-of-linux-containers-328e2adc12a2#.ehqvuvenq

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Lavoisier died at age 50, on the guillotine

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/11/the-banker-who-lost-his-head.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

A scientist studying the accuracy of stereotypes

http://quillette.com/2015/12/04/rebellious-scientist-surprising-truth-about-stereotypes/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? (2013)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921468/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 70 comments

Silicon Valley Is Not Driving Jobs Growth

http://fortune.com/2015/12/04/silicon-valley-is-not-a-job-creator/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 123 comments

World air pollution map

https://air.plumelabs.com/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Sysadmin marched without an exit interview had no chance to explain big savings

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/04/sysadmins_100000_revenge_after_sudden_sacking/?mt=1449218256053

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Things I Won’t Touch: Hydrofluoric Acid (2004)

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/things_i_wont_touch_1

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

If I were designing Python's import from scratch

http://www.snarky.ca/if-i-were-designing-imort-from-scratch

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

2015 State of Clojure community survey

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015-clojure-community-survey

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-name-the-shooter/ldipcbiihbfjonainibmoiggbolhgodo

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 79 comments

How to Remove Obstacles to Learning Math

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/30/not-a-math-person-how-to-remove-obstacles-to-learning-math

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Route 53 Traffic Flow

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/traffic-flow.html?sc_ichannel=em&sc_icountry=global&sc_icampaigntype=launch&sc_icampaign=EM_158148660&sc_idetail=1063446210&ref_=pe_411040_158148660_9

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers

http://recode.net/2015/12/04/amazon-buys-thousands-of-its-own-trucks-as-its-transportation-ambitions-grow/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 63 comments

Codes of Misconduct

http://hintjens.com/blog:108

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Tesla is copying Apple's business model

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/12/tesla-is-copying-apples-business-model.html#.VmGBZHo8KrV

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Saudi Arabia to execute 52 prisoners, including juveniles, en masse

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/saudi-arabia-to-execute-52-prisoners-including-juveniles-en-masse/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Taʿârof, the ceremony of courtesy

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/11/taarof.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

OpenBSD errata

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144920913324251&w=2

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

C++ Modules in VS 2015 Update 1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/12/03/c-modules-in-vs-2015-update-1.aspx

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Read a good dance lately?

http://dancenotation.org/lnbasics/frame0.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Tricky Twins Spoofed Trading Computers

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-03/tricky-twins-spoofed-trading-computers

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

Physicists Hope to Be Wrong About the Higgs Boson

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/physicists-are-desperate-to-be-wrong-about-the-higgs-boson/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Master of the house: why we should fight for truly private spaces

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/04/private-spaces-technology-thoughts

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

The 'North Korea ghost boats' washing up on Japan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34981195

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

The Inescapable Pragmatism of Procedures

http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/12/04/the-inescapable-pragmatism-of-procedures/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Demo of Wiki and Forum coded in C under 80k

http://home.ronsor.gq:12321/cgi-bin/wiki

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 56 comments

A Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products

http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2015/12/02/the-grand-unified-theory-of-apple-products

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses (2007)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2007/12/dont_fear_starbucks.single.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 40 comments

Very basic HTTP implementation in Swift

https://github.com/huytd/swift-http

11 years ago

★ 447 Swift MIT
45 upvotes – 24 comments

Mark Zuckerberg responds to critics of his $45B pledge

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102507695055801

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 100 comments

Tom Lehrer

http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 32 comments

Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/world/europe/germany-may-offer-model-for-reining-in-fossil-fuel-use.html?_r=0

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 40 comments
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