top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-18

Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

https://www.openhunt.co

11 years ago

1093 upvotes – 180 comments

Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

11 years ago

730 upvotes – 402 comments

The best icon is a text label

http://thomasbyttebier.be/blog/the-best-icon-is-a-text-label

11 years ago

603 upvotes – 203 comments

Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

http://lwn.net/Articles/667165/

11 years ago

354 upvotes – 149 comments

A visualisation of all of the money in the world

http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and-markets-in-one-visualization/

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: A fireplace for Emacs

https://github.com/johanvts/emacs-fireplace

11 years ago

★ 750 Emacs Lisp
257 upvotes – 69 comments

Go 1.6 Beta Released

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.6

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 64 comments

Reflecting on Haskell in 2015

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2016.html

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 102 comments

Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project

http://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 68 comments

Design Patterns in Clojure

http://mishadoff.com/blog/clojure-design-patterns/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 61 comments

The long process of creating a Chinese font

http://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10756640

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 93 comments

Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/big-ipo-tiny-payout-for-many-startup-workers?trk=pulse-det-art_view_ext

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 143 comments

Wifibroadcast – Analog-like transmission of live video data

https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/wifibroadcast-analog-like-transmission-of-live-video-data/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

My First Death Threat (2004)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040603-00/?p=39033

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

The last new subway line in Japan

http://gyrovague.com/2015/12/18/the-last-subway-line-in-japan/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 92 comments

A New Kind of Landscape Photography

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/a-new-kind-of-landscape-photography/421287/?single_page=true

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

How Art Became Irrelevant

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/how-art-became-irrelevant/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 98 comments

Common Lisp Koans

https://github.com/google/lisp-koans

11 years ago

★ 3.1k Common Lisp Apache-2.0
100 upvotes – 22 comments

A challenge to startups

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-12-18-startup-challenge.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

The DNC data breach

http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Mast Brothers obscure the fact that they originally used remelted chocolate

http://qz.com/571151/the-mast-brothers-fooled-the-world-into-buying-crappy-hipster-chocolate-for-10-a-bar/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 118 comments

X-Rays Expose a Hidden Medieval Library

http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/12/18/x-rays-expose-a-hidden-medieval-library/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

Comcast customer discovers huge mistake in company’s data cap meter

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/comcast-admits-data-cap-meter-blunder-charges-wrong-customer-for-overage/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Deep-Spying: Spying Using Smartwatch and Deep Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05616

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Psychology of Clickbait

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/psychology-of-clickbait/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story?

http://cepr.net/publications/reports/working-paper-the-upward-redistribution-of-income-are-rents-the-story

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 152 comments

Why we chose to move to HTML5 video

https://code.facebook.com/posts/159906447698921/why-we-chose-to-move-to-html5-video/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Mars Rover Finds Changing Rocks, Surprising Scientists

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/science/mars-rover-finds-changing-rocks-surprising-scientists.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements [pdf]

http://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/QAI/qai.pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Japan's curious passion for the business novel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35125739

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

APT tilting train: A laughing stock that changed the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35061511

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Mobile Theses

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/12/15/16-mobile-theses

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

New York State Agrees to Overhaul Solitary Confinement in Prisons

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/nyregion/new-york-state-agrees-to-overhaul-solitary-confinement-in-prisons.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Rayon: data paralellism in Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/12/18/rayon-data-parallelism-in-rust/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/blogs/wild-bees-are-recycling-plastic-study-finds

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments
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