top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-13

Bullshit Startup Experiences

http://totalgarb.tumblr.com/tagged/startupbullshit

11 years ago

530 upvotes – 288 comments

Files Are Hard

http://danluu.com/file-consistency/

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 151 comments

Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

http://ankisrs.net/

11 years ago

398 upvotes – 210 comments

Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us

http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2015/12/13/hi-im-from-the-games-industry-governments-please-stop-us/

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 229 comments

Graphics Drivers

http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/2015-12-13-graphics-drivers/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 20 comments

Avast’s man in the middle

http://www.thesafemac.com/avasts-man-in-the-middle/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 77 comments

Git-appraise: Distributed code review system for Git repos

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

11 years ago

★ 5.3k Go Apache-2.0
189 upvotes – 26 comments

How I started in web security

https://medium.com/@homakov/how-i-started-in-web-security-400b80824e86

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 43 comments

Chris Lattner on Swift and dynamic dispatch

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001948.html

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 81 comments

Clojure at a Real Estate Portal

http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=1069

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 45 comments

Kowloon Walled City: City of Darkness Revisited

http://cityofdarkness.co.uk/category/the_city/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 19 comments

Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale

http://allankelly.blogspot.com/2015/10/software-has-diseconomies-of-scale-not.html?

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 87 comments

Twitter Tells Users They May Be Targets of a 'State Sponsored Attack'

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/twitter-told-a-bunch-of-users-they-may-be-targets-of-a-state-sponsored-attack

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

Elm by Example

http://elm-by-example.org/toc.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

The quantum computing era is coming fast

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/13/the-quantum-computing-era-is-coming-qubits-processors-d-wave-google

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 71 comments

What Satoshi Did

http://www.coinscrum.com/2015/10/29/what-satoshi-did/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10726489

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 118 comments

Bad reviews for Taser documentary seem to come from Taser employees

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/12/bad-reviews-for-taser-documentary-on-amazon-itunes-seem-to-come-from-taser-employees/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

Poor man's VPN via ssh socks proxy

http://www.redpill-linpro.com/sysadvent//2015/12/13/socks-proxy-as-poor-mans-vpn.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

In Search of Tomorrow: On the Future of Eve IDE [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 15 comments

Atlassian's success reminds what a crappy place Australia is for tech business

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2015/12/atlassians-success-illustrates-what.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 106 comments

SqlPad: Run SQL in your browser and chart the results

http://rickbergfalk.github.io/sqlpad/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelevant sensory information

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/03/creative-genius-driven-by-distraction.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce et al.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

Costs of under-confidence

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/12/costs-of-under-confidence.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Theoretical Physics: Why Gravity Is So Weak

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2015/12/11/the-greatest-unsolved-problem-in-theoretical-physics-why-gravity-is-so-weak/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 71 comments

Apktool – A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Life and Death at Cirque Du Soleil

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/05/life-and-death-at-cirque-du-soleil

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Open source effort to bring open biomedical data together – anyone interested?

http://inspiratron.org/blog/2015/12/12/open-source-effort-to-bring-all-open-biomedical-data-together/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

You Can Never Size a Market in Excel

https://medium.com/on-startups/you-can-never-size-a-market-in-excel-786886d11f50#.6t6oxias0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

The Doomsday Invention

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

Smartphones, Posture, and Mood

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/your-iphone-is-ruining-your-posture-and-your-mood.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Japan’s 105-Hour Workweek

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/japans-105-hour-workweek/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

The GPU Clusters That Power Baidu's Neural Networks

http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/12/11/inside-the-gpu-clusters-that-power-baidus-neural-networks/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

Treed: A Tree Editor in JavaScript

https://github.com/jaredly/treed

11 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript
66 upvotes – 5 comments

The current state of machine intelligence 2.0

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-current-state-of-machine-intelligence-2-0

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 0 comments

Sayre's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments
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