Hacker News on 27 December 2014

• Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
• The Wire in HD
• Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25
• Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon
• Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages
• The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST
• 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video
• The future of jobs: The onrushing wave
• How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
• Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes