top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-30

In Memoriam: Ian Murdock

http://blog.docker.com/2015/12/ian-murdock/

10 years ago

1457 upvotes – 366 comments

Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

http://link.springer.com/search/page/8?facet-language=%22En%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false

10 years ago

990 upvotes – 171 comments

How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal

http://danluu.com/wat/

10 years ago

631 upvotes – 252 comments

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web

10 years ago

570 upvotes – 183 comments

Do the math on your stock options

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/30/do-the-math-on-your-stock-options/

10 years ago

445 upvotes – 247 comments

Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock

https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html

10 years ago

388 upvotes – 40 comments

Resolutions for programmers (2012)

http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/

10 years ago

369 upvotes – 221 comments

Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin

http://qz.com/578974/bank-of-america-is-trying-to-load-up-on-patents-for-the-technology-behind-bitcoin/

10 years ago

367 upvotes – 194 comments

Permission to Fail

https://keen.io/blog/135255657976/permission-to-fail

10 years ago

347 upvotes – 60 comments

Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A7V3GLWF6U

10 years ago

342 upvotes – 87 comments

Reverse Engineering for Beginners

http://beginners.re/

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 34 comments

Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition

http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html

10 years ago

329 upvotes – 371 comments

No Brainer

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 50 comments

os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform

http://os.js.org/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813746

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 37 comments

WebSockets: caution required

https://samsaffron.com/archive/2015/12/29/websockets-caution-required

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 110 comments

Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS

https://lists.01.org/pipermail/android-ia/2015-December/001107.html

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 38 comments

The Amazon Whisperer (2013)

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazon-whisperer

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 78 comments

Companies to face criminal offence if they tip off U.K. users about snooping

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/12051443/Twitter-and-others-to-face-criminal-offence-if-they-tip-off-users-about-snooping-requests.html

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 66 comments

Profiling Python in Production

https://nylas.com/blog/performance

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 14 comments

Twitter’s updated Mac app wasn’t made by Twitter

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/30/10691290/twitter-mac-outsourced

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 87 comments

Help the Moldovan company RITLabs to survive

http://pastebin.com/SLjDrQN1

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple ][ Watch

http://www.instructables.com/id/Apple-II-Watch/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments

Cloudy with a Chance of Lock-In

http://jacquesmattheij.com/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lock-in

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 98 comments

Instant Web Application

https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/instant-web-application/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 34 comments

Non-Unique SSH Host Keys Ed25519 on Hetzner

http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Ed25519/en

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

React Router 2.0.0

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/upgrade-guides/v2.0.0.md

10 years ago

★ 56.3k TypeScript MIT
119 upvotes – 67 comments

Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University but Don’t

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/dear-parents-everything-you-need-to-know-about-your-son-and-daughters-university-but-dont

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 110 comments

Apple's $348M Tax Settlement In Italy Bodes Ill For Google, Facebook, Microsoft

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/12/30/apples-348-million-tax-settlement-in-italy-bodes-ill-for-google-facebook-microsoft-and-others/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 175 comments

In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/in-silicon-valley-now-its-almost-always-winner-takes-all?intcid=mod-latest

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 77 comments

Feeding Graph databases – a third use-case for modern log management platforms

https://medium.com/@henrikjohansen/feeding-graph-databases-a-third-use-case-for-modern-log-management-platforms-d5dac8a80d53

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Amiga OS Kickstart and Workbench source coded leaked

http://commodore.ninja/amiga-os-kickstart-and-workbench-source-coded-leaked/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

GaugeMap: Thousands of river gauges, each with a Twitter account

http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Which Programming Languages Are Functional?

http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/which-programming-languages-are-functional.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 106 comments

Update on Christmas Issues

http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852/?snr=1_550_552&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Statistical model of IQ test beats humans at the same IQ test

http://observer.com/2015/06/artificially-intelligent-computer-outperforms-humans-on-iq-test/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 41 comments

50 best HackerNews posts ever (found using math)

https://medium.com/swlh/best-of-2015-pfffffffft-79d9b014f4de#.trixqhj79

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in India

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-29/the-price-keeps-falling-for-a-superstar-gilead-drug-in-india

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 107 comments

How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: How to avoid being arrogant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812445

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments
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