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Top of Month - Dec 2014

1. NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
   (2 Dec 2014 | 1424 points | Comments)

2. “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
   (14 Dec 2014 | 1284 points | Comments)

3. Nature makes all articles free to view
   (2 Dec 2014 | 1102 points | Comments)

4. Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
   (16 Dec 2014 | 1029 points | Comments)

5. CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
   (1 Dec 2014 | 902 points | Comments)

6. “Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
   (21 Dec 2014 | 883 points | Comments)

7. US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
   (9 Dec 2014 | 879 points | Comments)

8. The Case for Slow Programming
   (1 Dec 2014 | 865 points | Comments)

9. Quake on an oscilloscope
   (29 Dec 2014 | 859 points | Comments)

10. BPG Image format
    (5 Dec 2014 | 843 points | Comments)

11. Git client vulnerability announced
    (18 Dec 2014 | 818 points | Comments)

12. EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
    (18 Dec 2014 | 808 points | Comments)

13. India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
    (31 Dec 2014 | 796 points | Comments)

14. Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
    (27 Dec 2014 | 748 points | Comments)

15. PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
    (18 Dec 2014 | 744 points | Comments)

16. Android Studio 1.0
    (8 Dec 2014 | 725 points | Comments)

17. Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
    (7 Dec 2014 | 698 points | Comments)

18. Look, no hands
    (28 Dec 2014 | 698 points | Comments)

19. Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
    (3 Dec 2014 | 694 points | Comments)

20. How You Know
    (15 Dec 2014 | 686 points | Comments)

21. The State of JavaScript in 2015
    (1 Dec 2014 | 675 points | Comments)

22. Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
    (10 Dec 2014 | 675 points | Comments)

23. Good News You May Have Missed in 2014
    (15 Dec 2014 | 656 points | Comments)

24. Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
    (9 Dec 2014 | 650 points | Comments)

25. Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
    (30 Dec 2014 | 621 points | Comments)

26. From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
    (1 Dec 2014 | 618 points | Comments)

27. Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML
    (10 Dec 2014 | 609 points | Comments)

28. 24/192 music downloads are silly
    (2 Dec 2014 | 604 points | Comments)

29. Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
    (9 Dec 2014 | 598 points | Comments)

30. Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
    (28 Dec 2014 | 595 points | Comments)

31. Streem – a new programming language from Matz
    (11 Dec 2014 | 547 points | Comments)

32. Android: I don't need your permission
    (16 Dec 2014 | 540 points | Comments)

33. Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass
    (10 Dec 2014 | 535 points | Comments)

34. Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count
    (2 Dec 2014 | 530 points | Comments)

35. Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
    (22 Dec 2014 | 521 points | Comments)

36. Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
    (19 Dec 2014 | 516 points | Comments)

37. Merry Christmas to HN
    (25 Dec 2014 | 502 points | Comments)

38. Wire – Modern Communications Network
    (3 Dec 2014 | 498 points | Comments)

39. The Pirate Bay down, forever?
    (10 Dec 2014 | 496 points | Comments)

40. Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
    (15 Dec 2014 | 489 points | Comments)

41. Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions
    (16 Dec 2014 | 488 points | Comments)

42. Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo
    (11 Dec 2014 | 485 points | Comments)

43. The Fatal Pinch
    (8 Dec 2014 | 480 points | Comments)

44. Immigration is about talent, not costs
    (2 Dec 2014 | 468 points | Comments)

45. Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
    (12 Dec 2014 | 460 points | Comments)

46. Introducing .NET Core
    (4 Dec 2014 | 458 points | Comments)

47. Go 1.4 is released
    (11 Dec 2014 | 453 points | Comments)

48. How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
    (21 Dec 2014 | 452 points | Comments)

49. Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine
    (4 Dec 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

50. Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
    (13 Dec 2014 | 441 points | Comments)

51. Mozilla Research Projects
    (24 Dec 2014 | 440 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps
    (4 Dec 2014 | 438 points | Comments)

53. Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
    (26 Dec 2014 | 434 points | Comments)

54. Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps
    (24 Dec 2014 | 433 points | Comments)

55. Saving a Project and a Company
    (30 Dec 2014 | 425 points | Comments)

56. Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team
    (12 Dec 2014 | 423 points | Comments)

57. Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government Backdoors Into Cellphones and Computers
    (4 Dec 2014 | 417 points | Comments)

58. Microsoft accepting Bitcoin
    (11 Dec 2014 | 416 points | Comments)

59. “Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
    (1 Dec 2014 | 413 points | Comments)

60. JMAP – a better way to email
    (22 Dec 2014 | 410 points | Comments)

61. Marking HTTP as Non-Secure
    (13 Dec 2014 | 399 points | Comments)

62. The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
    (1 Dec 2014 | 396 points | Comments)

63. Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more
    (5 Dec 2014 | 395 points | Comments)

64. Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014
    (22 Dec 2014 | 391 points | Comments)

65. Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
    (18 Dec 2014 | 388 points | Comments)

66. Nashville police chief shares message, responds to questions
    (29 Dec 2014 | 387 points | Comments)

67. The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]
    (6 Dec 2014 | 379 points | Comments)

68. Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
    (9 Dec 2014 | 375 points | Comments)

69. Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
    (22 Dec 2014 | 373 points | Comments)

70. Scans of North Korean IP Space
    (20 Dec 2014 | 372 points | Comments)

71. Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps
    (4 Dec 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

72. Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning
    (7 Dec 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

73. Google News to shut down in Spain
    (11 Dec 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

74. Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
    (11 Dec 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

75. Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
    (20 Dec 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

76. World's Simplest Electric Train [video]
    (3 Dec 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

77. Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion
    (22 Dec 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

78. Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
    (8 Dec 2014 | 358 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
    (6 Dec 2014 | 357 points | Comments)

80. Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
    (8 Dec 2014 | 357 points | Comments)

81. BPG Image Comparison
    (16 Dec 2014 | 357 points | Comments)

82. An Offer to Sony from 2600
    (20 Dec 2014 | 354 points | Comments)

83. You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created
    (12 Dec 2014 | 352 points | Comments)

84. Bad Microsoft
    (14 Dec 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

85. Linus Torvalds on semaphores (1999)
    (17 Dec 2014 | 349 points | Comments)

86. My Amazon S3 Mistake
    (30 Dec 2014 | 349 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
    (4 Dec 2014 | 345 points | Comments)

88. The Old Pirate Bay
    (12 Dec 2014 | 344 points | Comments)

89. The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps
    (8 Dec 2014 | 340 points | Comments)

90. How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
    (30 Dec 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

91. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
    (30 Dec 2014 | 338 points | Comments)

92. When security goes right
    (25 Dec 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

93. How to Learn Efficiently
    (30 Dec 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
    (1 Dec 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

95. Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator
    (22 Dec 2014 | 332 points | Comments)

96. Neat Algorithms: Paxos
    (28 Dec 2014 | 331 points | Comments)

97. Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
    (12 Dec 2014 | 330 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?
    (8 Dec 2014 | 329 points | Comments)

99. What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs
    (17 Dec 2014 | 329 points | Comments)

100. Capsela, the game that changed my life
     (26 Dec 2014 | 328 points | Comments)