top 50% 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

TSA Sued Over New Policy to Refuse Opt-Outs

http://professional-troublemaker.com/2015/12/24/corbett-sues-tsa-over-new-policy-to-refuse-opt-outs/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

Does exercise slow the aging process?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/does-exercise-slow-the-aging-process/?_r=1

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 93 comments

How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-mtvs-16-and-pregnant-reduced-teen.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 51 comments

Typing with pleasure

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Vue.js: 2015 in Review

http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/12/20/vuejs-2015-in-review/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

http://salmanarif.bitbucket.org/visual/index.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

How does the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 change the Internet surveillance laws?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/12/24/how-does-the-cybersecurity-act-of-2015-change-the-internet-surveillance-laws/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

Freetserv: a free serial terminal server

https://freetserv.github.io/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Marshmallow: Simplified object serialization for Python

https://github.com/marshmallow-code/marshmallow

11 years ago

★ 7.2k Python MIT
91 upvotes – 15 comments

Deep Learning in a Nutshell: History and Training

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/deep-learning-nutshell-history-training/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 5 comments

Misleading charts of 2015, fixed

http://qz.com/580859/the-most-misleading-charts-of-2015-fixed/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Making a Mini-Lisp: Introduction to Transpilers in JavaScript

https://angularclass.com/making-a-mini-lisp-introduction-to-transpilers/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments
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