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Stories from December 8, 2014
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1. Android Studio 1.0 (android-developers.blogspot.com)
725 points by ingve on Dec 8, 2014 | 227 comments
2. The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps (wired.com)
340 points by dreamweapon on Dec 8, 2014 | 187 comments
3. Plan 9 from Bell Labs (github.com/0intro)
272 points by MaskedRabbit on Dec 8, 2014 | 88 comments
4. Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years (arstechnica.com)
273 points by SoapSeller on Dec 8, 2014 | 99 comments
5. Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society (ncase.me)
357 points by pyduan on Dec 8, 2014 | 86 comments
6. Yik Yak Hack (silverskylabs.github.io)
230 points by yakattack on Dec 8, 2014 | 69 comments
7. Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
260 points by coderush on Dec 7, 2014 | 43 comments
8. “This” in JavaScript (tipling.com)
256 points by alphabetam on Dec 7, 2014 | 93 comments
9. The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it (pchiusano.github.io)
176 points by jerf on Dec 8, 2014 | 119 comments
10. Detroit by Air (nytimes.com)
209 points by lxm on Dec 7, 2014 | 96 comments
11. Squire: FastMail’s rich text editor (fastmail.com)
210 points by brongondwana on Dec 8, 2014 | 48 comments
12. Interface Upgrades in Go (avtok.com)
174 points by zenazn on Dec 7, 2014 | 40 comments
13. Transcriptic for YC biotech startups (blog.ycombinator.com)
125 points by pouwerkerk on Dec 8, 2014 | 21 comments
14. Postgres full-text search is good enough (lostpropertyhq.com)
242 points by percept on Dec 8, 2014 | 57 comments
15. Suicide has surpassed war as the leading cause of US military deaths (usatoday.com)
237 points by remotorboater on Dec 8, 2014 | 83 comments
16. Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation (reuters.com)
358 points by cahitonur on Dec 8, 2014 | 207 comments
17. The U.S. Government Has a Secret System for Stalling Patents (yahoo.com)
196 points by jostmey on Dec 8, 2014 | 70 comments
18. Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?
329 points by petecooper on Dec 8, 2014 | 284 comments
19. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92 (nytimes.com)
117 points by jrlocke on Dec 7, 2014 | 15 comments
20. The Internet is Shit (2003) (internetisshit.org)
140 points by chroem- on Dec 7, 2014 | 82 comments
21. International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out (alchemistowl.org)
96 points by striking on Dec 7, 2014 | 13 comments
22. Golang on GitHub (github.com/golang)
220 points by brendanashworth on Dec 8, 2014 | 106 comments
23. Antivirus Companies Shouldn’t Have Hidden What They Knew About Regin (technologyreview.com)
123 points by aburan28 on Dec 8, 2014 | 65 comments
24. We Can't Trust Uber (nytimes.com)
318 points by applecore on Dec 8, 2014 | 126 comments
25. RIP Go Seigen (gogameguru.com)
107 points by awwducks on Dec 7, 2014 | 18 comments
26. Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS and $36M in Funding (gigaom.com)
129 points by preillyme on Dec 8, 2014 | 48 comments
27. Our quantum problem (aeon.co)
82 points by r721 on Dec 7, 2014 | 39 comments
28. Why I’m Giving Up My Passport (nytimes.com)
259 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 8, 2014 | 277 comments
29. At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services (panic.com)
245 points by Mowsh on Dec 8, 2014 | 98 comments
30. iOS 8 Debugging Case Study (objc.io)
79 points by hoggle on Dec 8, 2014 | 25 comments

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