top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-27

Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-patent-trolls-support-the-innovation-act-of-2015

10 years ago

501 upvotes – 96 comments

32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/

10 years ago

414 upvotes – 69 comments

TLDR pages

http://tldr-pages.github.io/

10 years ago

401 upvotes – 111 comments

How bad are things?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/24/how-bad-are-things/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 118 comments

SuperTux v0.4.0 – first stable release since 2005

http://supertuxproject.org/

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 36 comments

DLL Hijacking Just Won’t Die

http://textslashplain.com/2015/12/18/dll-hijacking-just-wont-die/

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 94 comments

Postgres 9.5 feature rundown

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/12/27/postgres-9-5-feature-rundown/

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 18 comments

A better way to teach technical skills to a group

http://miriamposner.com/blog/a-better-way-to-teach-technical-skills-to-a-group/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 21 comments

The Bonsai Kid

http://craftsmanship.net/the-bonsai-kid/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 29 comments

DOJ defers payments to local police agencies through asset forfeiture program

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-24/us-postpones-payments-to-police-in-asset-forfeiture-program

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 117 comments

Shellcode Injection

https://dhavalkapil.com/blogs/Shellcode-Injection/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships

http://qz.com/572284/the-tail-end/?utm_source=parVC

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 74 comments

The Pirate Book

http://thepiratebook.net/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 21 comments

Py-Videocore: Python Library for GPGPU on Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/nineties/py-videocore

10 years ago

★ 809 Python MIT
105 upvotes – 22 comments

A Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup (2013)

https://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: CodeUpStart – Learn Python/Flask by Cloning Kickstarter

http://www.codeupstart.com/project/build-kickstarter-with-python-and-flask

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

JavaScript Fatigue

https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4#.m0c2f9fe5

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Theranos Wellness Centers Aren’t Using “Nanotainers” at This Time

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/26/theranos-wellness-centers-arent-using-nanotainers-at-this-time/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 86 comments

Home is where the cartel is: On the politics and economics of land-use controls

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6287.html

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

North Korea's computer operating system mirrors its political one

http://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-computers-idUSKBN0UA0GF20151227

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

Gujarati Capitalism: Going Global

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683983-secrets-worlds-best-businesspeople-going-global

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

The Economics of Drone Delivery

https://www.flexport.com/blog/drone-delivery-economics/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

An Entrepreneur Juggles Six Companies and One Worker: Herself

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/an-entrepreneur-juggles-six-companies-and-one-worker-herself.html

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-jack-dorsey-runs-both-twitter-square-1450713601-lMyQjAxMTA1OTI5MTUyMDE5Wj

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 67 comments

Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (2004)

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Secret Atari DRAM Resale Operation Revealed by FBI (2013)

http://www.atariarchives.org/atarileaks/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Chevrolet Volt Extends Its Appeal

http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/video-review-all-new-2016-chevrolet-volt-extends-its-appeal

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

LifePaint Safety Spray

http://www.volvocars.com/uk/about/our-innovations/lifepaint

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant [pdf]

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/InkWell.pdf

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/techno-skeptics-objection-growing-louder/2015/12/26/e83cf658-617a-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 57 comments

Modula-2 Reloaded – A Modern Typesafe and Literate Programming Language

http://modula-2.info/m2r10/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Is Re-Emerging

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-tehran-museum-of-contemporary-art/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

Ed Snowden taught me to smuggle secrets past danger. Now I teach you (2014)

https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-have-we-lost-now-we-can-no-longer-read-the-sky

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments
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