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Stories from December 21, 2015
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1. Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted (rapid7.com)
407 points by ghshephard on Dec 20, 2015 | 170 comments
2. About those lava lamps (gist.github.com)
360 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2015 | 66 comments
3. Deep Learning: An MIT Press Book in Preparation (goodfeli.github.io)
245 points by ingve on Dec 20, 2015 | 22 comments
4. Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command (rubyonrails.org)
395 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 21, 2015 | 132 comments
5. Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas (streetsblog.org)
217 points by jseliger on Dec 21, 2015 | 184 comments
6. Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang (googlesource.com)
260 points by ingve on Dec 21, 2015 | 250 comments
7. Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python (pocoo.org)
290 points by jilljennV on Dec 21, 2015 | 91 comments
8. Let's build coolest web components purely in CSS, NO JavaScript (nailfashionsweden.se)
164 points by ramsich on Dec 20, 2015 | 29 comments
9. NES Graphics – Part 3 (dustmop.io)
197 points by dustmop on Dec 21, 2015 | 22 comments
10. Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software (groups.google.com)
274 points by DCKing on Dec 21, 2015 | 241 comments
11. India to make CBSE textbooks available online for free (economictimes.com)
194 points by 3dfan on Dec 20, 2015 | 19 comments
12. Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That? (alumni.berkeley.edu)
109 points by tokenadult on Dec 20, 2015 | 51 comments
13. Fuck the Cloud (2009) (textfiles.com)
325 points by colinprince on Dec 21, 2015 | 219 comments
14. U.S. Probes Theranos Complaints (wsj.com)
102 points by jerryhuang100 on Dec 21, 2015 | 42 comments
15. How Theranos Misled Me (fortune.com)
148 points by apsec112 on Dec 21, 2015 | 83 comments
16. Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU (hackaday.com)
109 points by jamesbowman on Dec 21, 2015 | 29 comments
17. Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece (economist.com)
148 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 21, 2015 | 166 comments
18. F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment (github.com/f-secure)
138 points by tilt on Dec 21, 2015 | 21 comments
19. SuperMalloc: A Super Fast Multithreaded Malloc for 64-bit Machines (researchr.org)
147 points by ingve on Dec 21, 2015 | 32 comments
20. Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court (bloomberg.com)
93 points by philip1209 on Dec 21, 2015 | 89 comments
21. Making a Three-Stone Hearth as Efficient as an Improved Cookstove (thesolutionsjournal.com)
84 points by nkurz on Dec 20, 2015 | 34 comments
22. Ispy: A python script for monitoring the output of other terminals and processes (github.com/dellis23)
97 points by d23 on Dec 21, 2015 | 15 comments
23. A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp (chrisdone.com)
179 points by psibi on Dec 21, 2015 | 196 comments
24. Why Dole owns container ships (flexport.com)
104 points by mhb on Dec 20, 2015 | 29 comments
25. Windows Kernel Architecture Internals (2010) [pdf] (microsoft.com)
105 points by doener on Dec 20, 2015 | 16 comments
26. The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers (wolfram.com)
80 points by nkurz on Dec 20, 2015 | 46 comments
27. A Docker-inspired Heroku clone in 100 lines of PHP (gist.github.com)
60 points by igorw on Dec 21, 2015 | 32 comments
28. The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (1981) (nytimes.com)
98 points by Futurebot on Dec 20, 2015 | 145 comments
29. Mind-wandering: the rise of a new anti-mindfulness movement (thelongandshort.org)
81 points by ohjeez on Dec 20, 2015 | 38 comments
30. Taking Let's Encrypt for a Spin (timkadlec.com)
94 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2015 | 49 comments

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