top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-23

'New' Python modules of 2015

http://blog.rtwilson.com/my-top-5-new-python-modules-of-2015/

11 years ago

591 upvotes – 131 comments

When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/technology/when-a-unicorn-start-up-stumbles-its-employees-get-hurt.html

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 267 comments

Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux

https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/tree/d751bb2bcacd2a6536280cdc7d313bc6584aa40e

11 years ago

★ 5.7k Shell BSD-2-Clause
261 upvotes – 159 comments

Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06808

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 19 comments

Things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning

https://peadarcoyle.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/three-things-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-about-machine-learning/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 11 comments

Kim Dotcom loses extradition case

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75407880/kim-dotcom-loses-extradition-case

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 132 comments

Hierarchy Is Detrimental for Human Cooperation

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18634

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 117 comments

Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx

https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-ddos-attacks-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783983

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 45 comments

NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/juniper-firewalls-successfully-targeted-by-nsa-and-gchq/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 57 comments

Progress on JMAP, better standard for synchronising mail, calendars and contacts

https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/12/23/the-jmap-momentum-builds/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 35 comments

Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/23/japanese-bookshop-stocks-only-one-book-at-a-time

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 69 comments

So You Want to Write Your Own Language (2014)

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-language/240165488

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783219

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 164 comments

Ericsson, Apple Settle Patent Dispute

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ericsson-apple-settle-patent-dispute-1450700464

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 141 comments

Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to reap millions

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/12/23/from-boston-penthouse-world-best-fantasy-player-plunges-into-startup-world/QHNpLh0O3QMyUDqTd4t27N/story.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 80 comments

Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-sports/35164700

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 158 comments

What the new video compression strategy from Netflix means for Apple and Amazon

https://donmelton.com/2015/12/21/what-the-new-video-compression-strategy-from-netflix-means-for-apple-and-amazon/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 97 comments

What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/05/wittgenstein-schoolteacher

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

12 Fractured Apps

https://medium.com/@kelseyhightower/12-fractured-apps-1080c73d481c

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

Hard Truths about Equity

https://whilewest.com/4-hard-truths-about-equity-dfa2f24b3a6d#.pphh8235x

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/23/apple-tim-cook-defends-encryption-when-will-other-tech-ceos-do-so

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 82 comments

How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (2007)

http://pmarchive.com/how_to_hire_the_best_people.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 48 comments

Software error releases up to 3,200 inmates early

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-error-releases-inmates-early-since-2002/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 103 comments

FreedomBox 0.7 released

https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/news/FreedomBox-0.7/index.en.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

http://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]

http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/internet-freedom-is-actively-dissolving-in-america

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Amiga emulator in pure JavaScript and HTML5

http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35166113

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 109 comments

When Greedy Algorithms Are Good Enough (2014)

http://jeremykun.com/2014/07/07/when-greedy-algorithms-are-good-enough-submodularity-and-the-1-1e-approximation/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 7 comments

New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India

http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/growth-predictions/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 97 comments

SHA-1 Deprecation: No Browser Left Behind

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-deprecation-no-browser-left-behind/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Indian Regulator Temporarily Suspends Facebook’s Free Basics

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Put-FBs-Free-Basics-service-on-hold-TRAI-tells-Reliance-Communications/articleshow/50290490.cms

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

Zimbabwe's plan to use China's currency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/23/zimbabwes-curious-plan-to-adopt-chinas-currency/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 77 comments

Coca-Cola Owns All 61 URLs from Ahh.com to Ahh-With-60-More-‘H’s.com

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/coca-cola-owns-all-61-urls-fromahhcom-to-ahh-with-60-more-hscom

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

http://mongotron.io/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

GPS Always Overestimates Distances

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/145-mapping-a-gis/9164-gps-always-over-estimates-distances.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Here be dragons

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/11/20/here-be-dragons/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Launching and landing rockets: A comparison between Blue Origin and SpaceX

http://i.imgur.com/ATkpdAX.png

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Anti-concussion collar draws inspiration from woodpeckers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-23/preventing-football-concussions-lessons-from-bird-brains

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

What does a GB of Internet service really cost? The worst case scenario (2011)

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/brainstuff/what-does-a-gigabyte-of-internet-service-really-cost-a-look-at-the-worst-case-scenario.htm

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Why Spinlocks Are Bad On iOS

http://engineering.postmates.com/Spinlocks-Considered-Harmful-On-iOS/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap (YC W09) for $45M

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/23/rnts-media-buys-mobile-ad-network-heyzap-for-20m/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments
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