top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-15

How Product Hunt really works

https://medium.com/@benjiwheeler/how-product-hunt-really-works-d8fdcda1da74

11 years ago

695 upvotes – 222 comments

Move Fast and Fix Things

http://githubengineering.com/move-fast/

11 years ago

538 upvotes – 90 comments

Angular 2 Beta released

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 263 comments

Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/15/toxic-water-soaring-lead-levels-in-childrens-blood-create-state-of-emergency-in-flint-mich/

11 years ago

405 upvotes – 321 comments

Bash Academy

http://www.bash.academy/

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 96 comments

Pebble Seizure Detect

https://github.com/PebbleSeizureDetect/PebbleSeizureDetect

11 years ago

★ 205 C GPL-3.0
301 upvotes – 46 comments

The Jacob’s Ladder of Coding

https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Meets_Julia_Micro_Performance

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 125 comments

Portable Offline Open Street Map

http://news.spatialdev.com/portable-open-street-map/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 49 comments

Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0/releasenotes/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 144 comments

AMD's Answer to GameWorks: Open Source Tools, Graphics FX, Libraries and SDKs

http://wccftech.com/amds-answer-to-nvidias-gameworks-gpuopen-announced-open-source-tools-graphics-effects-and-libraries/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 70 comments

Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/qubes-os-will-ship-pre-installed-on-purisms-security-focused-librem-13-laptop/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 109 comments

John Romero Shares PC “Super Mario Bros. 3” Demo Video

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/261822/John_Romero_shares_PC_Super_Mario_Bros_3_demo_vid.php

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 54 comments

Lexmark fires Mexico factory workers demanding $0.35 raise

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/15/printer-giant-lexmark-fires-juarez-factory-workers-demanding-raise

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 82 comments

Inflammation: Medicine's burning question

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/inflamed

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 152 comments

To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy

http://steveblank.com/2015/12/15/blanks-rule-to-predict-the-future-13-of-you-need-to-be-crazy/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 40 comments

A simple explanation of Chinese characters

https://medium.com/@adrieng/a-simple-explanation-of-chinese-characters-50f922ebe4e6#.hykxyoal9

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Craig Federighi talks to John Gruber about Swift

http://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/139/federighi-gruber-transcript

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 9 comments

Why I no longer use MVC frameworks

http://www.ebpml.org/blog15/2015/12/why-i-no-longer-use-mvc-frameworks/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 92 comments

It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09054

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 92 comments

The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases

http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/2015/12/14/personal-knowledgebases/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 106 comments

Defensive BASH programming

http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

Barnes and Noble is dying, Waterstones in the U.K. is thriving. Why?

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/12/barnes_noble_is_dying_waterstones_in_the_u_k_is_thriving.single.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 116 comments

What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/what-the-web-platform-can-learn-from-nodejs/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 124 comments

“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing

http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6141

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 48 comments

Apollo: Spotify's Java libraries for writing micro-services

http://spotify.github.io/apollo/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Tim Peake: UK astronaut heads for space station

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

For the first time, less than 10% of the world is living in extreme poverty

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/05/for-the-first-time-less-than-10-percent-of-the-world-is-living-in-extreme-poverty-world-bank-says/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

More Responsive Tapping on iOS

https://webkit.org/blog/5610/more-responsive-tapping-on-ios/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Xto6 modernizes your JavaScript code

http://xto6.js.org/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains

http://nautil.us/blog/how-poverty-changes-kids-brains

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 116 comments

Back to 28: Grub2 Authentication 0-Day

http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/your-money/your-most-valuable-asset-is-yourself.html?_r=0

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

IncludeOS roadmap: tiny Node.js-style web services in highly efficient C++

https://github.com/hioa-cs/IncludeOS/wiki/Roadmap

11 years ago

★ 5.2k C++ Apache-2.0
80 upvotes – 43 comments

Scientists may have solved a mystery about sea-level rise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/11/scientists-may-have-just-solved-one-of-the-most-troubling-mysteries-about-sea-level-rise/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 69 comments

Podcasting is getting huge

http://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2015/12/15/10126144/serial-podcast-huge-hit

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 117 comments

Why does programming suck?

https://medium.com/@luisobo/why-does-programming-suck-6b253ebfc607

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments

SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

http://www.symphonyos.com/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Real-time visualisation of orbiting satellites

http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

An Artist Who Obsessed the FBI

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/13/the-artist-who-obsessed-the-fbi.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Erdstall

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

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/traveling-salesman-with-simulated-annealing-r-and-shiny/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Fossil SCM keeps more than just your code

https://blog.kotur.org/posts/fossil-keeps-more-than-just-your-code.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 90 comments

Old Book Illustrations

http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Micro VCs Are Coming

http://mattermark.com/the-micro-vcs-are-coming/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]

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

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

CSS3 proven to be Turing complete?

http://my-codeworks.com/blog/2015/css3-proven-to-be-turing-complete

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 55 comments

How the Universal Symbols for Escalators, Restrooms, and Transport Were Designed

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-universal-symbols-for-escalators-restrooms-and-transport-were-designed

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

C++14: Transducers

http://vitiy.info/cpp14-how-to-implement-transducers/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 84 comments

Building solar farms above the clouds

https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/solar-energy-aims-for-the-sky-0

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Tesla Powerwall: Crunching the Numbers for Australia

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/05/tesla-powerwall-crunching-the-numbers-for-an-australian-suburban-home/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

Calculating integer factorials in constant time, taking advantage of overflow

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20151214-00/?p=92621

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

A Day in the Life of Americans

http://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

How to Predict Bad Cops in Chicago

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-predict-which-chicago-cops-will-commit-misconduct/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Rumble: Twitter over sneakernet

http://www.disruptedsystems.org/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Why can't China make a good ballpoint pen?

http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/10/world/why-cant-china-make-good-ballpoint-pen

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 60 comments

EMS: Shared Memory Parallelism for Node.js

https://github.com/syntheticsemantics/ems

11 years ago

★ 603 JavaScript
59 upvotes – 16 comments

Diagnosing Yahoo’s Ills: Ugly Math in Marissa Mayer’s Reign

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/dealbook/diagnosing-yahoos-ills-ugly-math-in-mayers-reign.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 73 comments

Counterexamples of Type Classes

http://blog.functorial.com/posts/2015-12-06-Counterexamples.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Can we use Jenkins for that?

http://engineering.simondata.com/can-we-use-jenkins-for-that/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Developer claims 'PS4 officially jailbroken'

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3014714/security/developer-claims-ps4-officially-jailbroken.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Layered – Neural Networks in Python 3

https://github.com/danijar/layered

11 years ago

★ 242 Python MIT
56 upvotes – 5 comments

DHS Giving Firms Free Penetration Tests

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/dhs-giving-firms-free-penetration-tests/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

JSweet: A transpiler from Java to TypeScript/JavaScript

http://www.jsweet.org

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

Simplicity isn't simple – Delphi's design principles

http://removingalldoubt.com/programming/2015/07/23/simplicity-isnt-simple/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments
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