top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-22

SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]

http://spacex.com/webcast/

11 years ago

1284 upvotes – 426 comments

BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts

http://betterexplained.com/

11 years ago

666 upvotes – 126 comments

LÖVE 0.10 released with iOS and Android support

https://love2d.org/wiki/0.10.0

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 91 comments

On the Juniper backdoor

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 48 comments

Background on the Falcon 9 Launch

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/12/21/background-tonights-launch

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 139 comments

Santa Claus Confirms NSA Attack on Naughty or Nice Database

https://edri.org/santa-claus-confirms-nsa-attack-on-naughty-or-nice-database/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 94 comments

GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/22/gitlab-8-3-released/

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 101 comments

Bay Area Regional Planner: The Board Game

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1700980409/bay-area-regional-planner

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 70 comments

Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-its-harder-to-forge-a-sha-1-certificate-than-it-is-to-find-a-sha-1-collision/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 43 comments

Pipe Organ desk

http://www.kagenschaefer.com/pipeorgandesk.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 25 comments

How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read (2010)

http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Why-I-Taught-My-Toddler-to-Read.htm

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 130 comments

TSA can now force you to go through body scanners [pdf]

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-tsa-pia-32-d-ait.pdf

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 166 comments

Vagrant 1.8 released

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vagrant-1-8.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

Announcing Handmade Quake

http://philipbuuck.com/announcing-handmade-quake

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/eff-court-lifetime-gps-tracking-violates-fourth-amendment

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

GPL enforcement is a social good

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38992.html

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 18 comments

Ggplot2 version 2.0.0 released by Hadley Wickham

http://blog.rstudio.org/2015/12/21/ggplot2-2-0-0/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Google has made Usenet archives impossible to search

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

Integer overflow in glibc strncat

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19390

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Notifying Our Users of Attacks by Suspected State-Sponsored Actors

https://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/135674131435

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

https://magicsignup.com

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 75 comments

Factorizer

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: A high-tech floating Christmas tree with more than 2000 RGB LED's

http://www.maximise.dk/the-high-tech-floating-christmas-tree/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together

https://medium.com/@rrhoover/let-s-continue-to-build-product-hunt-together-fd5bed490bfe#.bhhlc2h4y

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 83 comments

Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (1999)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/irrationality-of-square-root-of-m

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

GoshawkDB: A distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant object store

https://goshawkdb.io/features.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Camera Zapping: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Cameras

http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

The language of productivity is now being used to advocate napping on the job

http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/want-to-boost-the-economy-take-a-nap-at-work/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 60 comments

App Developers on Swift Evolution

http://curtclifton.net/app-developers-on-swift-evolution

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

Analysis of the Backdoored Backdoor

https://rpw.sh/blog/2015/12/21/the-backdoored-backdoor/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

Creating a Virtual Printer Using Node.js [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Ti8w1yX2w

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Subtleties of the ANSI/ISO C standard [pdf]

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1637.pdf

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook’s “Save Free Basics in India” Campaign Provokes Controversy

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/17/save-free-basics/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off

http://www.geekademy.com/2015/11/warning-signs-youre-about-to-be-laid-off.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 72 comments

“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”

http://blog.flytenow.com/the-beginning-of-the-end

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 105 comments

Sued Over Old Debt, and Blocked from Suing Back

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/business/dealbook/sued-over-old-debt-and-blocked-from-suing-back.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service

http://holidaysearch.mapzen.com

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Common: Co-Living Startup from a General Assembly Founder

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/19/common-building-opening/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 45 comments
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