top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-25

Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255650

9 years ago

357 upvotes – 494 comments

Basics of Making a Rootkit – From syscall to hook

https://d0hnuts.com/2016/12/21/basics-of-making-a-rootkit-from-syscall-to-hook/

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 20 comments

A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)

https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-to-functional-programming

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 151 comments

Advent of Code Solutions

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20of%20Code.ipynb

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread

http://www.thevelop.nl/blog/2016-12-25/ThreadTone/

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

http://8bitworkshop.com/?platform=vcs

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 36 comments

LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was

http://lineageos.org/Yes-this-is-us/

9 years ago

275 upvotes – 114 comments

Reflecting on Haskell in 2016

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2017.html

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 102 comments

'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/all-i-wanted-to-do-is-build-a-house/article4346687/

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 244 comments

Ruby 2.4.0 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-released/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 105 comments

U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-hack-commission-idUSKBN1442VC

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 177 comments

Ways to do load balancing wrong

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3028689

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 29 comments

House Judiciary Committee Encryption Working Group Year-End Report [pdf]

https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161220EWGFINALReport.pdf

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 71 comments

The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-widowhood-effect/article33344335/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 40 comments

Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery

http://www.sciencealert.com/6-more-mysterious-radio-signals-have-been-detected-coming-from-outside-our-galaxy

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 148 comments

Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript

http://feederio.com/book/36/beautiful-javascript-functional-javascript

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: What coding/programming podcasts are you listening to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254983

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 53 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253618

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 50 comments

A tiny forest tribe built a DIY drone from YouTube to fight off illegal loggers

http://qz.com/662530/a-tiny-forest-tribe-built-a-diy-drone-from-youtube-to-fight-off-illegal-loggers/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 33 comments

Mind as an emergent self-organizing process

http://qz.com/866352/scientists-say-your-mind-isnt-confined-to-your-brain-or-even-your-body/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 74 comments

Get Let's Encrypt Cert in Five Minutes

https://github.com/kaienkira/acme-client-quick

9 years ago

★ 290 PHP
133 upvotes – 16 comments

A man who cleans up after plane crashes

http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole Car Thing

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/business/automakers-prepare-america-fewer-cars.html

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 154 comments

Nurturing Genius

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nurturing-genius/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

George Michael has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38432862

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/quinoa-is-the-new-big-mac

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Best uses for Amazon Echo?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255581

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

I'm becoming scared of Facebook

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5k4dn8/im_becoming_scared_of_facebook/?

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 108 comments

Self Healing Code with clojure.spec

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/12/9/works-on-my-machine-self-healing-code-with-clojurespec-1

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 28 comments

How the 2011 hack of DigiNotar changed the Internet’s infrastructure

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/12/how_the_2011_hack_of_diginotar_changed_the_internet_s_infrastructure.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

Raytracer.el: a raytracer in Emacs Lisp

https://github.com/burtonsamograd/emacs-jit/blob/master/lisp/raytracer.el

9 years ago

★ 143 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
94 upvotes – 53 comments

The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Pythagorean Cup: Practical Joke Chalice Overflows with Ancient Greek Humor

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/pythagorean-cup-practical-joke-chalice-overflows-ancient-greek-humor/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Channels in Golang

http://www.tapirgames.com/blog/golang-channel

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 104 comments

As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/groundwater-depletion-global-food-supply/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

Getting the Amiga 500 Online

https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=168

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments

Bosun – monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange

http://bosun.org/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments
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