top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-25

Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-misleading-indians-its-full-page-ads-free-basics-murthy

11 years ago

804 upvotes – 245 comments

Ruby 2.3.0 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-released/

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 69 comments

OLEOutlook: Bypass Almost Every Corporate Security Control with a GUI

https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost-every-corporate-security-control-with-a-point-n-click-gui-37f4cbc107d0#.s7estyw9m

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 40 comments

Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM

http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 42 comments

Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out

http://www.sciencealert.com/water-bears-turn-into-glass-when-they-dry-out

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 37 comments

Steam: Seeing other people's accounts when logged in

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1162196

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 105 comments

Rbenv 1.0.0

https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv/releases/tag/v1.0.0

11 years ago

★ 16.6k Shell MIT
170 upvotes – 86 comments

How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube

http://pupeno.com/2015/12/21/how-i-found-one-of-the-earliest-browsers-in-history/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

Why Copenhagen Has Almost Perfect Water

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/12/why-copenhagen-has-almost-perfect-water/421728/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 79 comments

Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791018

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Beautiful Decay of AOL

http://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/5/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 52 comments

Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing The Ruby Programming Language

http://chrisseaton.com/phd/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 7 comments

Devstash.io – Hacker News alternative focused on computer science

https://devstash.io/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 28 comments

Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 40 comments

%*$*#&#* Windows 7 Calculator

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4ec1b55b-b516-471d-aa77-6b37b69d8df6/action?threadDisplayName=windows&forum=w7itproui

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 108 comments

How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable (2008)

http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/19/how-dr-suess-would-prove-the-halting-problem-undecidable/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-unsung-tax-agent-who-put-a-face-on-the-silk-road.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

“Rootless” feature in El Capitan means DTrace no longer works

http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/208185

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 65 comments

Analyzing networks of characters in 'Love Actually'

http://varianceexplained.org/r/love-actually-network/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Block ads on home devices using a Raspberry Pi

https://medium.com/@robleathern/block-ads-on-all-home-devices-for-53-18-a5f1ec139693

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Physicists believe they can create matter from colliding photons

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-photons-electrons-positrons

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

Workarounds for Opera Mini

http://wtfoperamini.com/#/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 6

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part6/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: What was your biggest life lesson in 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790971

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

A Silicon Valley for Drones, in North Dakota

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/technology/a-silicon-valley-for-drones-in-north-dakota.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

The Bkd Tree: A Dynamic Disk Optimized BSP Tree

https://medium.com/@nickgerleman/the-bkd-tree-da19cf9493fb

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 2 comments

Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (1999)

https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Why has nobody gone to the Moon since 1972?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791053

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

Hyde Park visitors tracked via mobile phone data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/25/hyde-park-visitors-tracked-mobile-phone-data-ee

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Tinkercad – Create 3D digital designs with online CAD

https://www.tinkercad.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Operation Easy Chair: How a Company in Holland Helped the CIA Bug the Russians

https://decorrespondent.nl/3789/Operation-Easy-Chair-or-how-a-little-company-in-Holland-helped-the-CIA-bug-the-Russians/106823277-f4300cc3

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Debunking myths about artificial intelligence

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/demystifying-artificial-intelligence-no-the-singularity-is-not-just-around-the-corner/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 63 comments
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