top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-19

Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460281572/congress-sends-1-8-trillion-tax-and-spending-bill-to-president-obama

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Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/juniper-networks-hidden-backdoors-show-the-risk-of-government-backdoors/

11 years ago

Juniper: Recording Some Twitter Conversations

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/12/19/juniper.html

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Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras

http://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39

11 years ago

Stop looking at HN and go work that thing you promised yourself you'd work on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764376

11 years ago

Norwegians campaign to give Finland a mountain

http://www.thelocal.no/20151216/give-finland-a-new-highest-peak-norway-campaign

11 years ago

Why 451?

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/12/18/451

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What RESTful actually means

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/what-restful-actually-means

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PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1631/

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Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010)

http://www.stellman-greene.com/2010/11/29/demoralize-your-teams-quickly-and-efficiently-with-micromanagement/

11 years ago

What we learned about SSDs in 2015

http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-we-learned-about-ssds-in-2015/

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Wine 1.8 is released

https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8

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Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?

http://priceonomics.com/why-are-projects-always-behind-schedule/

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How Tor Works: Part One

http://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/02/28/how-tor-works-part-one

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Tiingo – Pay-what-you-want “high-end” financial tools

https://www.tiingo.com/

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How Being Named the 'Best New Restaurant in America' Hurt My Business

https://munchies.vice.com/articles/how-being-named-the-best-new-restaurant-in-america-hurt-my-business

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Fairphone 2: world's first modular phone goes on sale

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34982724

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Google Knowledge Graph Search API

https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/

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Scientific publications should be anonymous

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05382

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“Compiler Construction” by Niklaus Wirth (2014) [pdf]

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.html

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Government Succeeds in Stalling Again, but Jewel V. NSA Goes On

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/government-succeeds-stalling-again-jewel-v-nsa-goes

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Chlorine: Dead Simple GPGPU

https://github.com/Polytonic/Chlorine

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★ 429 C++

Thepiratebay.com domain has been suspended

http://thepiratebay.com/

11 years ago

Running Windows under FreeBSD's bhyve

http://pr1ntf.xyz/windowsunderbhyve.html

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Ulix – a Literate Unix

http://ulixos.org/

11 years ago

Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

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★ 81.5k Clojure OFL-1.1

An Open Letter to California Air Resources Board on VW Cheating Scandal

http://www.takepart.com/open-letter-to-california-air-resources-board-chairman-mary-nichols

11 years ago

The Helsinki Bus Station Theory of Careers

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/23/change-life-helsinki-bus-station-theory

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The Mystery of Tetrachromacy

http://theneurosphere.com/2015/12/17/the-mystery-of-tetrachromacy-if-12-of-women-have-four-cone-types-in-their-eyes-why-do-so-few-of-them-actually-see-more-colours/

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MkLinux: Apple-Funded Port of Linux to the Power Mac / Mach Microkernel

http://mklinux.org/

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Literate SQL

https://modern-sql.com/use-case/literate-sql

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Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

11 years ago

Baghdad's First Coding Bootcamp

https://medium.com/iraq-s-oppritunity/a-water-proof-event-cd0604bd49ed#.7iet7dry4

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