top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-12-05

Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/

11 years ago

Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/federal-court-appeals-rejects-notion-violating-your-employers-computer-use

11 years ago

Introducing d3-shape

https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-shape-73f8367e6d12

11 years ago

Why Japanese leaders attacked Pearl Harbor

https://www.timeline.com/stories/pearl-harbor-was-attacked-because-it-would-have-been-rude-not-to

11 years ago

The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-patent-finally-expires

11 years ago

Pricing Programmers

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/pricing-programmers/1062181727148024

11 years ago

Python: Generators, Coroutines, Native Coroutines and Async/Await

http://masnun.com/2015/11/13/python-generators-coroutines-native-coroutines-and-async-await.html

11 years ago

Unexplored Areas in Data Compression

https://medium.com/@duhroach/unexplored-areas-in-data-compression-c256f70ba0c7

11 years ago

Ghost Streets of Los Angeles

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/ghost-streets-of-los-angeles.html

11 years ago

Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2945

11 years ago

Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze

http://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/why-old-sports-photos-often-have-a-blue-haze/

11 years ago

Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

11 years ago

The patent on the Space Shuttle has expired

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3866863A/en

11 years ago

How to Set Up a Common Lisp Web Environment

http://jdpressman.com/2015/11/25/how-to-setup-a-common-lisp-web-environment-%28november%202015%29.html

11 years ago

Samsung to pay Apple $548M in patent dispute

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/samsung-to-pay-apple-548-million-in-patent-dispute

11 years ago

The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/10/29/the-destruction-of-alderaan-was-completely-justified/

11 years ago

Show HN: Lego – A Let's Encrypt Library and CLI in Go

https://github.com/xenolf/lego

11 years ago

★ 9.4k Go MIT

Human Brains Are Wired to Blame Rather Than Praise

http://fortune.com/2015/12/04/brain-wired-praise-blame/

11 years ago

The Manager as Debugger

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-manager-as-debugger.html

11 years ago

Show HN: StoryGraph.js – Define a world and generate random stories

https://github.com/incrediblesound/story-graph

11 years ago

★ 466 TypeScript MIT