top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-15

Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03651

7 years ago

465 upvotes – 222 comments

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

http://russolsen.com/articles/2012/08/09/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got.html

7 years ago

462 upvotes – 237 comments

I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a6fkpm/i_have_temporary_3_days_access_to_more_than_2000/

7 years ago

393 upvotes – 191 comments

Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690492

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 34 comments

Rust and WebAssembly in 2019

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/12/14/rust-and-webassembly-in-2019.html

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688647

7 years ago

229 upvotes – 258 comments

Pictures from the Eastern Bloc in the 80s

http://chrisniedenthal.com/en/works?cat=all

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 113 comments

Bootstrapping Rust

https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 46 comments

Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it

https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 177 comments

DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/ddr2/index.htm

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 28 comments

String tokenization in C

https://onebyezero.blogspot.com/2018/12/string-tokenization-in-c.html

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 114 comments

Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out

https://www.newsweek.com/parrot-alexa-amazon-african-grey-england-animals-1260318

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 75 comments

Depression

https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/depression.html

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 83 comments

Open source confronts its midlife crisis

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 89 comments

Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/world/australia/australia-gag-order-court.html

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 74 comments

PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-safety-investigation-20181214-story.html

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 68 comments

A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS

https://cyber-itl.org/2018/12/07/a-look-at-home-routers-and-linux-mips.html

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight

https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-cia-disguise/

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 76 comments

How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/13/the-untold-story-of-how-india-sex-workers-prevented-an-aids-epidemic-ashok-alexander-a-stranger-truth

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA

https://github.com/pwmarcz/fpga-chip8

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 9 comments
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