top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-31

NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-israel-nsa-cheerleaders-discover-value-of-privacy-only-when-their-own-is-violated/

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Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain

https://medium.com/guesstimate-blog/introducing-guesstimate-a-spreadsheet-for-things-that-aren-t-certain-2fa54aa9340#.um4q5txph

10 years ago

} // good to go

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html

10 years ago

A Requiem for Ian Murdock

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/12/30/ian-murdock.html

10 years ago

Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit

http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/

10 years ago

Swift: Commonly Rejected Changes

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md

10 years ago

★ 15.8k Markdown Apache-2.0

The “Chad” bug

https://plus.google.com/+MarcBevand/posts/fBfCsaXReH5

10 years ago

Joyce K. Reynolds, co-editor of RFCs, has died

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/e9UDzTAAWSlXA2g9bhMbv1SHTx4

10 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg's Free Basics argument doesn't address conflicts of interest

https://www.techinasia.com/disconnect-mark-zuckerberg-scam-indias-poor

10 years ago

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl

http://blog.randi.io/2015/12/31/the-developer-formerly-known-as-freebsdgirl/

10 years ago

People can read their manager's mind

http://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.html

10 years ago

An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks

http://status.linode.com/incidents/mmdbljlglnfd

10 years ago

'All You Americans Are Fired'

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/all-you-americans-are-fired

10 years ago

JRuby and Truffle Update

http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2015-December/000262.html

10 years ago

Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor

http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ancestor-of.html

10 years ago

The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf]

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf

10 years ago

Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/

10 years ago

Make a Doom level, part 2: design

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/12/30/you-should-make-a-doom-level-part-2/

10 years ago

Flat Tree Dependency Resolution in Npm v3

https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3

10 years ago

Incorporating and accessing binary data into a C program

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2015/12/incorporating-and-accesses-binary-data.html

10 years ago

Teach Yourself Logic 2016: A Study Guide [pdf]

https://www.academia.edu/19781634/Teach_Yourself_Logic_2016_A_Study_Guide

10 years ago

Status of Sails.js

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/3429

10 years ago

★ 22.8k JavaScript MIT

C++ Status at the end of 2015

http://www.bfilipek.com/2015/12/c-status-at-end-of-2015.html

10 years ago

Findings from 15 years of the International Space Station

https://theconversation.com/five-key-findings-from-15-years-of-the-international-space-station-51540

10 years ago

A website for testing your app ideas

http://elevtr.io/

10 years ago

You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02640

10 years ago

How brain architecture relates to consciousness and abstract thought

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-brain-architecture-relates-to-consciousness-and-abstract-thought

10 years ago

British Library to put George III's map collection online

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/british-library-to-put-one-very-big-atlas-online/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Will HN put black bar for the death of Ian?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10815695

10 years ago

The Creepy Beauty of VCR Errors

https://killscreen.com/articles/vcr-errors/

10 years ago

Tell HN: I’d like to sponsor your passion project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819961

10 years ago

What Happened in 2015

http://avc.com/2015/12/what-happened-in-2015/

10 years ago

How to Build a Bad Research Center (2013)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-123.pdf?imm_mid=0ddf30&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20151230

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