HN - 50 points

Former Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny”

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:03:03 GMT

http://www.avclub.com/article/four-columbia-house-insiders-explain-shady-math-be-219964
15 comments
50 points

North Korea's computer operating system mirrors its political one

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:28:01 GMT

http://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-computers-idUSKBN0UA0GF20151227
33 comments
52 points

InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant [pdf]

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:28:01 GMT

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/InkWell.pdf
19 comments
50 points

Bertha back on the move after 2 years of delays

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:28:02 GMT

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/bertha-restarts-after-two-years-of-delays/
33 comments
50 points

A Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup (2013)

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:28:02 GMT

https://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html
discuss
55 points

React/JavaScript fatigue

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:28:02 GMT

https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4
25 comments
65 points

How bad are things?

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 03:58:02 GMT

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/24/how-bad-are-things/
8 comments
54 points

At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 03:28:06 GMT

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-theranos-many-strategies-and-snags-1451259629
52 comments
70 points

Pogoscript – a compile-to-JS language that emphasises concurrency, readability

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:28:04 GMT

http://pogoscript.org/
15 comments
51 points

The Bonsai Kid

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:28:04 GMT

http://craftsmanship.net/the-bonsai-kid/
3 comments
56 points

DLL Hijacking Just Won’t Die

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:25:02 GMT

http://textslashplain.com/2015/12/18/dll-hijacking-just-wont-die/
16 comments
54 points

How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:24:02 GMT

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-jack-dorsey-runs-both-twitter-square-1450713601-lMyQjAxMTA1OTI5MTUyMDE5Wj
44 comments
53 points

A math quartet's breakthrough bridges number theory and geometry

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:24:02 GMT

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151208-four-mathematicians/
13 comments
54 points

Progress in graph processing

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:52:02 GMT

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-12-24.md
4 comments
55 points

The Economics of Drone Delivery

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:52:02 GMT

https://www.flexport.com/blog/drone-delivery-economics/
23 comments
53 points

Gujarati Capitalism: Going Global

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:22:02 GMT

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683983-secrets-worlds-best-businesspeople-going-global
24 comments
52 points

Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual (1971)

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:22:02 GMT

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero.txt
14 comments
67 points

Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:22:02 GMT

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-patent-trolls-support-the-innovation-act-of-2015
12 comments
66 points

DOJ defers payments to local police agencies through asset forfeiture program

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:20:04 GMT

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-24/us-postpones-payments-to-police-in-asset-forfeiture-program
36 comments
114 points

Py-Videocore: Python Library for GPGPU on Raspberry Pi

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:20:04 GMT

https://github.com/nineties/py-videocore
13 comments
52 points

Big Oil Companies Should Adopt a Self-Liquidation Strategy

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:20:04 GMT

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/marginal-pricing-end-of-western-oil-producers-by-anatole-kaletsky-2015-12
22 comments
52 points

A better way to teach technical skills to a group

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:50:02 GMT

http://miriamposner.com/blog/a-better-way-to-teach-technical-skills-to-a-group/
14 comments
58 points

SuperTux v0.4.0 – first stable release since 2005

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:50:02 GMT

http://supertuxproject.org/
3 comments
52 points

Chevrolet Volt Extends Its Appeal

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:49:02 GMT

http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/video-review-all-new-2016-chevrolet-volt-extends-its-appeal
21 comments
50 points

Web Security – Client side certs

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:49:02 GMT

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-ClientCerts.html
18 comments
57 points