top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-21

Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/12/18/Rails-5-0-beta1/

11 years ago

395 upvotes – 132 comments

Fuck the Cloud (2009)

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 219 comments

I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/12/18/i-analyzed-250-saas-pricing-pages-heres-what-i-found/

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 101 comments

Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/12/21/introducing-lektor/

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 91 comments

Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/boring-crypto/48qa1kWignU/o8GGp2K1DAAJ

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 241 comments

Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/master/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 250 comments

The cold fusion horizon

https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-scientists-dismiss-the-possibility-of-cold-fusion

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 190 comments

Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 73 comments

Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

https://kaiko.com/statistics/difficulty

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 254 comments

What web developers should know about SSL

https://certsimple.com/blog/obsolete-cipher-suite-and-things-web-developers-should-know-about-ssl

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 52 comments

Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/12/10/real-estate-giant-suburban-office-parks-increasingly-obsolete/#.Vnhp_CD-0bs.twitter

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 184 comments

NES Graphics – Part 3

http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/12/18/nes-graphics-part-3/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 22 comments

A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp

http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskell-lisp-philosophy-difference

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 196 comments

Show HN: I redesigned the USPS package delivery slip

https://medium.com/@alizauf/i-redesigned-the-usps-package-delivery-slip-fd43d8607753

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

What It's Like to Be Noam Chomsky's Assistant

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Its-Like-to-Be-Noam/234667

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21684138-disney-making-fortune-and-safeguarding-its-future-buying-childhood-piece-piece

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 166 comments

WebExtensions in Firefox 45

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/12/21/webextensions-in-firefox-45-2/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 78 comments

How Theranos Misled Me

http://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizabeth-holmes/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 83 comments

SuperMalloc: A Super Fast Multithreaded Malloc for 64-bit Machines

http://conf.researchr.org/event/ismm-2015/ismm-2015-papers-supermalloc-a-super-fast-multithreaded-malloc-for-64-bit-machines

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 32 comments

Selectric bug

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 17 comments

F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment

https://github.com/F-Secure/see

11 years ago

★ 821 Python Apache-2.0
138 upvotes – 21 comments

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269637/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 46 comments

Bacteria that resist 'last antibiotic' found in UK

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35153795

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 117 comments

Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-learn-in-restaurants/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 87 comments

Educated Germans avoid social media

http://www.dw.com/en/educated-germans-avoid-social-media/a-18875970

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

http://www.strem.io

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 30 comments

Chinese cities use “mist cannon” to shoot pollution from the sky

http://qz.com/572954/chinese-cities-are-using-this-mist-cannon-to-shoot-pollution-from-the-sky/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 101 comments

A cult of extreme physical endurance among executives

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21684107-cult-extreme-physical-endurance-taking-root-among-executives-here-comes-superboss?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/herecomessuperboss

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 88 comments

Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see him is changing

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683971-seventy-years-after-adolf-hitlers-death-how-germans-see-him-changing-what

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 130 comments

Introduction to x64 Assembly (2011) [pdf]

https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.2130-001/x64-intro.pdf

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU

http://hackaday.com/2015/07/28/open-source-fpga-toolchain-builds-cpu/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

Go/types, the Go type checker: a tutorial

https://github.com/golang/example/tree/master/gotypes

11 years ago

★ 2.9k Go BSD-3-Clause
107 upvotes – 3 comments

How the online hate mob set its sights on me

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/20/social-media-twitter-online-shame

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 83 comments

U.S. Probes Theranos Complaints

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-probes-theranos-complaints-1450663103

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

The Hadoop Ecosystem Table

https://hadoopecosystemtable.github.io/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Ispy: A python script for monitoring the output of other terminals and processes

https://github.com/dellis23/ispy

11 years ago

★ 1k Python GPL-2.0
97 upvotes – 15 comments

It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Email (2013)

http://www.27months.com/2013/10/its-always-sunny-in-iceland-or-how-i-nsa-proofed-my-email/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/uber-style-flight-sharing-service-shot-down-by-u-s-court

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 89 comments

What's inside net/http: Late binding in the Go standard library

https://blog.cloudflare.com/whats-inside-net-http-socket-late-binding-in-the-go-standard-library/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 2 comments

Blade: a Java Web Framework

https://github.com/biezhi/blade

11 years ago

★ 5.8k Java Apache-2.0
85 upvotes – 59 comments

Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cock-li-e-mail-server-seized-by-german-authorities-admin-announces/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Gephi 0.9 released: Graph visualization software for networks

https://gephi.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/gephi-0-9-released-play-with-network-data-again/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Problems with Systemd and Why I Like BSD Init

http://bsdmag.org/randy_w_3/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 69 comments

Is Sound Gradual Typing Dead? [pdf]

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/popl16-tfgnvf.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 93 comments

Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993)

http://textfiles.com/programming/antidbg.txt

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

10 GB Blocks

https://ryanxcharlestimes.com/10-gb-blocks-e7ed69e54a66#.4di6guakh

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Honey Fences

http://www.ediblegeography.com/honey-fences/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Hope Rekindled for ABC Conjecture Proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151221-hope-rekindled-for-abc-proof/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/12/DHS-Drug-Traffickers-Spoofing-Border-Drones/124613/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 74 comments

Lyft Files to Raise as Much as $1B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/lyft-files-to-raise-as-much-as-1-billion/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

3D Printing is for more than making brightly colored plastic pieces of crap

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/3DPrintingIsForSoMuchMoreThanJustMakingBrightlyColoredPlasticPiecesOfCrap.aspx

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 53 comments

You are your phone

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6683

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Citizen Maths: free/open adult math education for practical real-world numeracy

http://boingboing.net/2015/11/03/citizen-maths-freeopen-math.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

OpenTSDB – A Distributed, Scalable Time Series Database

http://opentsdb.net/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Data Privacy Protection: Why Tutanota Is in Germany

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-privacy-germany

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Teaching Operating Systems with Tracing

http://teachbsd.org/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

A Docker-inspired Heroku clone in 100 lines of PHP

https://gist.github.com/igorw/1d67f422689017e814a8

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Kotlin for Android Developers

http://www.javaadvent.com/2015/12/kotlin-android.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Bezos Takes Hands-On Role at Washington Post

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bezos-takes-hands-on-role-at-washington-post-1450658089

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

My Own Patent Apologies (2014)

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/06/elon-musk-tesla-and-my-own-patent-apology.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Graphs in the world: Modeling systems as networks

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/06/graphs-in-the-world-modeling-systems-as-networks.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments
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