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December 2014 Archive
1.
NASA: We're sending humans to Mars (twitter.com)
1424 points by didgeoridoo on Dec 2, 2014 | 586 comments
2.
“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS” (imgur.com)
1284 points by shalmanese on Dec 14, 2014 | 265 comments
3.
Nature makes all articles free to view (nature.com)
1102 points by nikhilpandit on Dec 2, 2014 | 128 comments
4.
Farewell, Dr. Dobb's (drdobbs.com)
1029 points by andrewbinstock on Dec 16, 2014 | 320 comments
5.
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket (coreos.com)
902 points by kelseyhightower on Dec 1, 2014 | 277 comments
6.
“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation” (article.gmane.org)
883 points by chummm on Dec 21, 2014 | 157 comments
7.
US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program (intelligence.senate.gov)
879 points by uptown on Dec 9, 2014 | 551 comments
8.
The Case for Slow Programming (ventrellathing.wordpress.com)
865 points by bufo on Dec 1, 2014 | 337 comments
9.
Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)
859 points by markmassie on Dec 29, 2014 | 70 comments
10.
BPG Image format (bellard.org)
843 points by mjs on Dec 5, 2014 | 328 comments
11.
Git client vulnerability announced (github.com)
818 points by polemic on Dec 18, 2014 | 177 comments
12.
EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional (eff.org)
808 points by etr71115 on Dec 18, 2014 | 169 comments
13.
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin (techdirt.com)
796 points by peter123 on Dec 31, 2014 | 298 comments
14.
Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs (extremetech.com)
748 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2014 | 400 comments
15.
PostgreSQL 9.4 Released (postgresql.org)
744 points by petercooper on Dec 18, 2014 | 188 comments
16.
Android Studio 1.0 (android-developers.blogspot.com)
725 points by ingve on Dec 8, 2014 | 227 comments
17.
Look, no hands (looknohands.me)
698 points by jamesisaac on Dec 28, 2014 | 140 comments
18.
Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
698 points by plinkplonk on Dec 7, 2014 | 110 comments
19.
Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
694 points by r721 on Dec 3, 2014 | 420 comments
20.
How You Know (paulgraham.com)
686 points by _pius on Dec 15, 2014 | 257 comments
21.
Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy (paperplanes.de)
675 points by michaelochurch on Dec 10, 2014 | 329 comments
22.
The State of JavaScript in 2015 (breck-mckye.com)
675 points by sahara on Dec 1, 2014 | 220 comments
23.
Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 (gatesnotes.com)
656 points by prajjwal on Dec 15, 2014 | 114 comments
24.
Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates (markshuttleworth.com)
650 points by selectnull on Dec 9, 2014 | 147 comments
25.
Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven (ifixit.org)
621 points by ColinWright on Dec 30, 2014 | 372 comments
26.
From hacker to hospice in seven weeks (benjamincburns.com)
618 points by benjamincburns on Dec 1, 2014 | 221 comments
27.
Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML (mail.mozilla.org)
609 points by ash on Dec 10, 2014 | 144 comments
28.
24/192 music downloads are silly (xiph.org)
604 points by tosh on Dec 2, 2014 | 424 comments
29.
Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework (getskeleton.com)
598 points by hit8run on Dec 9, 2014 | 121 comments
30.
Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (spiegel.de)
595 points by FabianBeiner on Dec 28, 2014 | 165 comments