top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-12-24

Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona

http://www.stavros.io/posts/open-letter-mozilla-bring-back-persona/

11 years ago

905 upvotes – 237 comments

Neon: Node plus Rust

http://calculist.org/blog/2015/12/23/neon-node-rust/

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 69 comments

Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/23/brazil-declares-emergency-after-2400-babies-are-born-with-brain-damage-possibly-due-to-mosquito-borne-virus/

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 137 comments

How to get rich in tech

http://startupljackson.com/post/135800367395/how-to-get-rich-in-tech-guaranteed

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 190 comments

ClojureScript Year in Review

http://swannodette.github.io/2015/12/23/year-in-review/

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 58 comments

How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/why-do-neural-networks-think-a-panda-is-a-vulture

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 66 comments

HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume

11 years ago

★ 9.3k JavaScript MIT
255 upvotes – 64 comments

Darktable 2.0 released

http://www.darktable.org/2015/12/darktable-2-0-released/

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 44 comments

Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (2008)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 70 comments

State Considered Harmful – A Proposal for a Stateless Laptop

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23/state_harmful.html

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 103 comments

What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-data-breach-president-debate/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 95 comments

The Problem with Friendly C

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 173 comments

What I Learned from Losing $200M

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/what-i-learned-from-losing-200-million

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 53 comments

Larry Wall announces that Perl6 is ready for production

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/an-unexpectedly-long-expected-party/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 41 comments

Regular Expression Crossword Puzzle

http://gregable.com/2015/12/regular-expression-crossword-puzzle.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

Lab explosions and accidents

http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/2015/12/lab-explosions-and-accidents.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/12/more-people-use-ubuntu-than-anyone.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 128 comments

Russia's leading expert on criminal tattoos

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0195-the-man-who-reads-the-criminal-mind-by-analysing-convicts-tattoos/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/12/19/you-should-make-a-doom-level-part-1/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 28 comments

Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/things_i_wont_work_with_dimethylcadmium

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments
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