top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-26

AWS mistakes to avoid

https://cloudonaut.io/5-aws-mistakes-you-should-avoid/

10 years ago

Perl 6 Released

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/

10 years ago

Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone

http://www.sphaero.org/blog:2012:0418_am_i_hacked_oh_it_s_just_vodafone

10 years ago

My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO

https://moz.com/rand/my-complicated-relationship-with-no-longer-being-ceo/

11 years ago

Big Oil Companies Should Adopt a Self-Liquidation Strategy

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/marginal-pricing-end-of-western-oil-producers-by-anatole-kaletsky-2015-12

10 years ago

Much faster incremental apt updates

https://juliank.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/much-faster-incremental-apt-updates/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

10 years ago

Extracting the Private Key from a TREZOR

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/trezor-power-analysis/

10 years ago

Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual (1971)

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero.txt

10 years ago

React-boilerplate: setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps

https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate

10 years ago

★ 29.5k JavaScript MIT

Open-Source Watch

http://oswatch.org/build_page_1.php

10 years ago

Moore's law hits the roof

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=417

10 years ago

Watch a Computer Made Out of Dominoes Do Basic Math

http://thescienceexplorer.com/technology/watch-computer-made-out-dominoes-do-basic-math

10 years ago

OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly

http://www.openbsdjumpstart.org

10 years ago

How to contribute to the Haskell ecosystem

http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/12/how-to-contribute-to-haskell-ecosystem.html

10 years ago

"Free Basics" - Myths and Facts

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fy8rGMIleYNPGNNZvO16_NLyPSJ0_JhCLU0Uo6W8Ogk/edit?pref=2&pli=1#heading=h.mvl2arsbzxqk

10 years ago

Implementing functional languages: a tutorial (1992)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/pj-lester-book/

10 years ago

Drawbacks of Freelance Web Development

http://foorious.com/articles/drawbacks-of-freelance-web-development/

10 years ago

Perl 6.0 released

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.12.md

11 years ago

★ 1.8k Raku Artistic-2.0

Yubico with new 4096-bit keys and gpg-agent for ssh authentication

https://trmm.net/Yubikey

10 years ago

SerialUSB – a cheap USB proxy for input devices

http://blog.gimx.fr/serialusb/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What are your predictions in technology for 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795296

10 years ago

The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/24/central-war-terror-propaganda-tool-western-victims-acknowledged/

10 years ago

Web Security – Client side certs

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-ClientCerts.html

10 years ago

The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (2014)

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/qa-the-miseducation-of-our-college-elite/377524/?single_page=true

10 years ago

Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/review-mint-17-3-may-be-the-best-linux-desktop-distro/

10 years ago

Brotli compression for the web

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/new-years-diet-brotli-compression/

10 years ago

How the Speed of Light Was First Measured

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/how-the-speed-of-light-was-first-measured/

10 years ago

Holography Without Lasers: Hand-Drawn Holograms (1995)

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/holo1.html

10 years ago

Progress in graph processing

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-12-24.md

10 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript

The Commercial Zen of Muji

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-commercial-zen-of-muji

10 years ago

LambdaCube 3D

http://lambdacube3d.com/

10 years ago

Raspberry Pi vs. SPARCstation 20: Fight

http://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=266

10 years ago

Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/12/leaked-documents-that-were-not.html

10 years ago

A math quartet's breakthrough bridges number theory and geometry

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151208-four-mathematicians/

10 years ago

Why the SpaceX landing is Better than Apollo 11

http://lochief.com/2015/12/27/why-the-spacex-landing-is-better-than-apollo-11/

10 years ago

Virtual queue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_queue

11 years ago

“Instagram's Million Dollar Bug”: Case Study for Defense

https://summitroute.com/blog/2015/12/24/instagram_bounty_case_study_for_defense/

10 years ago

Stock options: a balanced approach

http://yosefk.com/blog/stock-options-a-balanced-approach.html

10 years ago

Handbook of Constraint Programming (2006) [pdf]

http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/CSP/papers/CP_Handbook-20060315-final.pdf

10 years ago

IntermezzOS: a teaching operating system for experienced developers

http://intermezzos.github.io/

10 years ago

Pogoscript – a compile-to-JS language that emphasises concurrency, readability

http://pogoscript.org/

10 years ago

Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub Analysed

http://ukupat.github.io/tabs-or-spaces/?

10 years ago

The Müller Formula or Predictable Color Preferences (2007)

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/02/the-muller-formula-or-predictable-color-preferences

10 years ago

Surgeon warns that swallowing a button battery could be lethal

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/campaigns/give-to-gosh/great-ormond-street-hospital-surgeon-warns-of-the-dangers-of-button-batteries-a6783641.html

10 years ago

What Code Does vs. What Code Means [video]

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-12-26-what-code-means.html

10 years ago