Hacker Newsletter #232

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Issue #232 // December 26, 2014 // View in your browser

If you celebrated it, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Looking forward to spending 2015 with you, but before we get there, watch for a special issue looking back at the best stories of 2014 next week. –kale #FAVORITES How to Be an Expert in a Changing World //paulgraham comments→ Mozilla Research Projects //mozilla comments→ Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014 //kalzumeus comments→ Scans of North Korean IP Space //github comments→ Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator //stuffwithstuff comments→ We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation //codeascraft comments→ How to Send Email Like a Startup //sendwithus comments→ Page load fail makes it difficult to cook cornbread in the woodstove //debian comments→ High speed M&M sorting machine //reviewmylife comments→ Systematizing Sales with Software and Processes //kalzumeus comments→ Adventures in Piano Building //medium comments→ Algorithms playground for common questions solved in Ruby syntax //github comments→ #SHOW HN Plague //plague comments→ Startup Fighter //startupfighter comments→ Scrape the web by injecting JavaScript into web pages //espion comments→ Gobot: A framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things//gobot comments→ My Personal Hacker News Reader //github comments→ Grab – simple but very fast grep //github comments→ World’s First Connected Bike Grips //smrtgrips comments→ #CLASSICS T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree //github comments→ Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit) //hakim comments→ What happens when you introduce 29 reindeer to an isolated island? //imageshackcomments→ #CODE Ruby 2.2.0 Released //ruby-lang comments→ Rails 4.2 released //rubyonrails comments→ No more JavaScript frameworks //bitworking comments→ Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for Python 3.5 //quip comments→ Node.js stream handbook //github comments→ Beginners' Guide to Linkers in C //lurklurk comments→ Getting Started with Elm //pragmaticstudio comments→ #LEARN Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps //accidentalscientistcomments→ Principles of Distributed Computing //ethz comments→ Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers //wired comments→ #BOOKS Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries//publicdomainreview comments→ How to Design Programs, Second Edition //neu comments→ Causal Inference Book //harvard comments→ #WATCHING The Interview //stripe comments→ The Humane Representation of Thought //vimeo comments→ What's wrong with convolutional nets? //mit comments→ Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike //youtube comments→ #WORKING Why is everyone so busy? //economist comments→ Why the ‘Best Places to Work’ Often Aren’t //nytimes comments→ Why you should think twice about Freelancer.com //ycombinator comments→ #FUN Jenga Pistol //woodgears comments→ Is_computer_on_fire() //everything2 comments→ Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine //mmodm comments→

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