top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-20

Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted

https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/12/20/cve-2015-7755-juniper-screenos-authentication-backdoor

11 years ago

407 upvotes – 170 comments

About those lava lamps

https://gist.github.com/marick/3ec112bc38b2af267e15

11 years ago

360 upvotes – 66 comments

Deep Learning: An MIT Press Book in Preparation

http://goodfeli.github.io/dlbook/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 22 comments

YC's 2015 Reading List

http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/yc-2015-reading-list/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 71 comments

Juniper hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 104 comments

Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151216-physicists-and-philosophers-debate-the-boundaries-of-science/

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 163 comments

Real-time GIF images

http://github.com/ErikvdVen/php-gif

11 years ago

★ 897 PHP
211 upvotes – 67 comments

AI will cause “structural collapse” of law firms by 2030

http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/report-ai-will-transform-legal-world

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 148 comments

India to make CBSE textbooks available online for free

http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/good-governance-cbse-books-to-be-made-available-online-for-free-says-smriti-irani/articleshow/50245429.cms

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 19 comments

The Internet Archive Telethon

http://telethon.archive.org/?ref=hn

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 35 comments

Is REST Best in a Microservices Architecture?

http://capgemini.github.io/architecture/is-rest-best-microservices/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 44 comments

Let's build coolest web components purely in CSS, NO JavaScript

http://technical.nailfashionsweden.se/web-components-that-can-be-built-purely-using-css-no-javascript/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 29 comments

GTD sucks for creative work. Here’s an alternative system

http://heydave.org/post/24286720323/gtd-sucks-for-creative-work-heres-an-alternative

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

1% the Code (2001)

http://www.colorforth.com/1percent.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 152 comments

Safe Native Code

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/12/19/safe-native-code/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

Soundproofing for New York Noise

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/realestate/soundproofing-for-new-york-noise.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 157 comments

Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 37 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents

http://artint.info/index.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 7 comments

99% of Costa Rica's electricity came from renewable energy in 2015

http://www.solarcrunch.org/2015/12/99-of-costa-ricas-electricity-came-from.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

MariOCaml: HTML5 Mario, written exclusively in OCaml

https://github.com/mahsu/MariOCaml

11 years ago

★ 544 OCaml MIT
110 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That?

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2015-breaking-news/giving-credence-why-so-much-reported-science-wrong-and

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 51 comments

Windows Kernel Architecture Internals (2010) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/wincore2010/Dave_Probert_1.pdf

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

Why Dole owns container ships

https://www.flexport.com/blog/why-dole-owns-container-ships/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (1981)

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/19/nyregion/the-10000-a-year-college-education-has-arrived.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 145 comments

A Distributed Haskell for the Modern Web [pdf]

http://ekblad.cc/lic.pdf

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 3 comments

As of 9.5, Postgres JSONB data can be modified

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.5#JSONB-modifying_operators_and_functions

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

Theranos Founder Faces a Test of Technology, and Reputation

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/business/theranos-founder-faces-a-test-of-technology-and-reputation.html?_r=0

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: A Werewolf bot for Slack

https://github.com/chrisgillis/slackwolf

11 years ago

★ 341 PHP
96 upvotes – 42 comments

The Year in Fungi

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-year-in-fungi-2015

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Taking Let's Encrypt for a Spin

https://timkadlec.com/2015/12/taking-lets-encrypt-for-a-spin/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

The ‘Greatest Corporate Failure in American History’

http://www.vice.com/read/hanks-for-the-memories-0000513-v21n12

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

Making a Three-Stone Hearth as Efficient as an Improved Cookstove

http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/237379

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

A 3-D printer capable of incorporating hydraulics

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/544766/how-to-3-d-print-a-hydraulic-powered-robot/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

Autism in Women Is Misunderstood

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-invisible-women-with-autism/410806/?utm_source=SFTwitter&single_page=true

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

Mind-wandering: the rise of a new anti-mindfulness movement

http://thelongandshort.org/society/is-mind-wandering-an-anti-mindfulness-movement

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers

http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-programmers/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 46 comments

Database leak exposes 3.3M Hello Kitty fans

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3017171/security/database-leak-exposes-3-3-million-hello-kitty-fans.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

How long are dams like Hoover Dam engineered to last? (2006)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2666/how-long-are-dams-like-hoover-dam-engineered-to-last

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Trim seeks out and destroys awful monthly subscriptions

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/20/10597788/trim-subscription-canceller-forgotten-bills-texts

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Homemade RSS aggregator followup

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/12/homemade-rss-aggregator-followup/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Swift available for Beaglebone/RasPi

http://www.housedillon.com/?p=2287

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Android on the desktop: Not really “good,” but better than you’d think

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/android-on-the-desktop-not-really-good-but-better-than-youd-think/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Kindergarten Has Become the New First Grade

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-new-preschool-is-crushing-kids/419139/?single_page=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

Mindfulness versus Concentration

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/12/mindfulness-versus-concentration/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Atlassian's User Onboarding Magic

http://appcues.com/blog/atlassian-5-billion-dollar-user-onboarding-magic/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments
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