top 50% 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

852 upvotes – 268 comments

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

293 upvotes – 119 comments

Introducing d3-shape

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

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 19 comments

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

205 upvotes – 129 comments

The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires

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

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

Pricing Programmers

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

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 124 comments

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

147 upvotes – 30 comments

Unexplored Areas in Data Compression

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

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 46 comments

Ghost Streets of Los Angeles

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

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 21 comments

Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go

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

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

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

116 upvotes – 33 comments

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

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

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

The patent on the Space Shuttle has expired

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

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

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

98 upvotes – 35 comments

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

95 upvotes – 45 comments

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

94 upvotes – 84 comments

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

https://github.com/xenolf/lego

11 years ago

★ 9.4k Go MIT
93 upvotes – 26 comments

Human Brains Are Wired to Blame Rather Than Praise

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

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

The Manager as Debugger

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

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

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

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

11 years ago

★ 466 TypeScript MIT
82 upvotes – 8 comments

How not to report on the encryption ‘debate’

http://www.cjr.org/first_person/misinformation_and_misconceptions_how_not_to_report_on_the_encryption_debate.php

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Lakka – DIY retro emulation console

http://www.lakka.tv/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: ACME Let's Encrypt client – binary releases, works like 'make'

https://github.com/hlandau/acme.t

11 years ago

★ 68
73 upvotes – 0 comments

Fermilab Experiment Finds No Evidence That We Live in a Hologram

http://gizmodo.com/fermilab-experiment-finds-no-evidence-that-we-live-in-a-1746130140

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Reproducible-builds – Provide a verifiable path from source code to binary

https://reproducible-builds.org/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Everyone can be a target

https://people.debian.org/~lunar/blog/posts/everyone_can_be_a_target/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Git Cheat Sheet

http://luisbg.blogalia.com//historias/76017

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

America’s FISA court names five lawyers as public advocates

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/americas-super-secret-court-names-five-lawyers-as-public-advocates/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

How the Space Age Imagined 2014: Asimov's Predictions, Revisited

http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/7/isaac-asimovs-predictions-of-life-in-2014-revisited

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Caveman2 – A Common Lisp web framework

http://8arrow.org/caveman/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Why do we still write insecure software?

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2942

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

Deep-Brain-Stimulation Treatment for Depression Fails Another Trial

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/much-touted-deep-brain-stimulation-treatment-for-depression-fails-another-trial/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Tests on skull fragment cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/27/adolf-hitler-suicide-skull-fragment

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Chennai Flood – Crowdsourced List for Shelter

http://chennairains.org/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a18419/waterproof-drone-transforms-from-quadcopter-to-submarine/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Letsencrypt implemented as a shell script

https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh

11 years ago

★ 6.1k Shell MIT
60 upvotes – 32 comments

Apple Watch is encoding each frame as PNG

http://lionet.livejournal.com/137350.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

ListAndHash

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ListAndHash.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient

http://economics.mit.edu/files/10861

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Tripdelta Finds Cheaper Flights Through “Secret” Airport Routes

http://lifehacker.com/tripdelta-finds-cheaper-flights-through-secret-airpor-1746204552

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 37 comments

The First Sodium-Ion Rechargeable Battery

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/a-first-prototype-of-a-sodiumion-rechargeable-battery

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

Apple: Open Source

https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 59 comments

I Dreamed of a Perfect Database

https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 41 comments

Why I Don’t Rely on Time Machine

https://joeontech.net/why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 42 comments

Replacing Sawzall – a case study in domain-specific language migration

http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Death by Coconut: A Story of Food Obsession Gone Too Far

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/457124796/death-by-coconut-a-story-of-food-obsession-gone-too-far

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments
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