top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-08

Who Y Combinator Companies Want

http://data.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want-c1880a08ac88

11 years ago

667 upvotes – 527 comments

Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-will-stop-developing-and-selling-firefox-os-smartphones/

11 years ago

529 upvotes – 322 comments

We ditched Google Analytics

https://spideroak.com/articles/yeah-we-ditched-google

11 years ago

490 upvotes – 262 comments

After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6

http://www.nethack.org/v360/release.html

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 128 comments

Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 255 comments

Choosing an HTTP Status Code

http://racksburg.com/choosing-an-http-status-code/

11 years ago

445 upvotes – 119 comments

Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/being-homeless-a-struggle-even-with-a-100000-job-offer/

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 160 comments

Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/

11 years ago

395 upvotes – 151 comments

Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments

http://qz.com/566579/most-violence-in-the-world-is-motivated-by-personal-morality

11 years ago

383 upvotes – 323 comments

How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street

http://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 187 comments

Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/chicago-and-los-angeles-are-next-up-for-google-fiber/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 218 comments

How to Get Good at Chess, Fast (2013)

http://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 64 comments

Private key for *.xboxlive.com certificate disclosed

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3123040

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 41 comments

What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks: Modeling a person from photos

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/3DPersona/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 41 comments

Learn to play chess online

https://www.chesscademy.com

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 70 comments

Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting

http://magazine.good.is/articles/academics-for-hire-disclose-fossil-fuel-funding

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 91 comments

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition

http://www.redbook.io/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 34 comments

Attack on DNS root servers

http://root-servers.org/news/events-of-20151130.txt

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 90 comments

American satellite started transmitting again after being abandoned in 1967

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/10/23/american-satellite-started-transmitting-46-years-after-being-abandoned-in-1967

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 33 comments

NASA Open APIs

https://api.nasa.gov/index.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 17 comments

Tell HN: Peter Roberts, immigration lawyer for YC, will do an AMA this Friday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699795

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way We Think

https://www.vividcortex.com/blog/why-percentiles-dont-work-the-way-you-think

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695125

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 100 comments

The "Bush hid the facts" bug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

I Wrote a Book to Teach the Wolfram Language

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/i-wrote-a-book-to-teach-the-wolfram-language/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

Astronaut Selection

http://astronauts.nasa.gov/content/broch00.htm

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 110 comments

MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-32-now-powered-postgresql-john-de-goes

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to lung disease

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/12/popcorn-lung-seen-in-e-cigarette-smokers/?

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 160 comments

The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/08/fall-of-jersey-how-tax-haven-goes-bust

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 87 comments

Choose design over architecture

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/11/17/choose-design-over-architecture/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Reading the World in 196 Books (2014)

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130715-reading-the-world-in-365-days

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 1 comments

How Finland's Basic Income Experiment Will Work

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052595/how-finlands-exciting-basic-income-experiment-will-work-and-what-we-can-learn-from-it

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 81 comments

The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and bureaucrats

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/12/07/brain-surgeon-tortured-by-software-developers-and-hospital-bureaucrats/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 152 comments

Open Source .NET – 1 year later

http://mattwarren.org/2015/12/08/open-source-net-1-year-later/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Twitter is monkeying with the order of tweets in timelines

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/twitter-is-monkeying-around-with-the-order-of-tweets-in-your-timeline/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 74 comments

Fractal Gears

http://brm.io/gears/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Vermont utility says it will be the first to install Tesla powerwalls in the US

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/12/vermont-utility-says-it-will-be-the-first-to-install-tesla-powerwalls-in-the-us/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Pokemon Go for iOS and Android

http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-go/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

Windows Phone Internals Opens the Custom ROM World for Lumia Phones

http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-phone-internals-opens-the-custom-rom-world-for-lumia-phones/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Java? Tales from a Python Convert

http://sookocheff.com/post/java/why-java/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 100 comments

BrickInstructions.com: Lego booklet site

http://lego.brickinstructions.com

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Teens can't tell the difference between Google ads and search results

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/20/9768350/google-ads-search-results-ofcom

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue

http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/2015/12/08/threebody-2-0/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

When can Quantum Annealing win?

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/12/when-can-quantum-annealing-win.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/gJZg+(Official+Google+Research+Blog)

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Swift package manager

https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager

11 years ago

★ 10.1k Swift Apache-2.0
69 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: GitHub File Watcher – get notified when files change in a GitHub repo

http://github-file-watcher.com/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Pixel C

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_c

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Access UART ports

http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/open-source/open-devices/how-to-access-uart-ports-on-xperia-devices/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Personal data of Dutch telecom providers poorly protected

http://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/608-personal-data-of-dutch-telecom-providers-extremely-poorly-protected-how-i-could-access-12-million-records

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

A Jellyfish-Obsessed Engineer Upended Our Understanding of Swimming

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/weve-got-animal-swimming-all-wrong-says-jellyfish-obsessed-engineer/419169/?single_page=true

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

How Steve Ballmer Got So Much of Microsoft (2014)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/09/30/long-ago-twist-yielded-ballmer-a-fortune-in-microsoft-stock/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Making My Emacs Start Faster

http://www.wmecole.com/2015/11/making-my-emacs-start-faster.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-still-dominates-internets-upstream-traffic-151208/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Roll your own toy Unix clone OS (2008)

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

3d-Printed Revolver Can Fire 8 Rounds

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/3d-printed-revolver/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 101 comments

Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/08/mozillas-newest-app-perfectly-captures-the-ethical-dilemma-of-ad-blocking/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 91 comments

Paredit.js – structured navigation and editing of s-expressions

http://robert.kra.hn/projects/paredit-js

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Sssgen: Make static websites simple again

https://ehuber.info/blog/why-sssgen.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

Why WeWork.com uses a static generator

https://engineering.wework.com/engineering/2015/12/08/why-wework-com-uses-a-static-generator-and-why-you-should-too/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments
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