top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-19

Why I love math

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/eo4e1/respectful_question_you_guys_actually_like_this/c19lh2k

16 years ago

WakeMates are ready

http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/12/18/wakemates-are-ready/

16 years ago

Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html

16 years ago

Mathematics: The Most Misunderstood Subject

http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/mathematics_departme/what_math/index.asp

16 years ago

Free High-Quality Fonts

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/17/25-new-free-high-quality-fonts-typography/

16 years ago

A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning

http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/typical-day-for-pfc-bradley-manning.html

16 years ago

Kod is a new Node.js scriptable code editor for OSX

http://kodapp.com/

16 years ago

Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

http://mojang.com/live/

16 years ago

A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe.

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20100905/p1

16 years ago

Show HN: Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/Writings/HackerNewsItemLifetime.html

16 years ago

Vagrant is a tool for building virtualized development environments.

http://vagrantup.com/

16 years ago

Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms

http://www.unhosted.org/manifesto.html

16 years ago

Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.

http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2010/12/09/my-thesis-building-blocks-of-a-scalable-webcrawler

16 years ago

Database of private SSL keys for embedded devices

http://code.google.com/p/littleblackbox/

16 years ago

Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/software/10-fresh-mac-apps-with-beautiful-interfaces-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them

16 years ago

Ask HN: Why are YC startups so secretive in Job postings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021547

16 years ago

Startup Blogs To Make You a Better Entrepreneur

http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/12/17-startup-blogs-to-make-you-a-better-entrepreneur/

16 years ago

Just Make It Faster

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/12/just-make-it-faster.html

16 years ago

The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/

16 years ago

Fred Wilson's Nexus S Review

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/nexus-s-review.html

16 years ago

Charging Objects in Ruby

http://timeless.judofyr.net/charging-objects-in-ruby

16 years ago

Using Puppet to Automatically Configure New EC2 Instances

http://www.codelord.net/2010/12/19/using-puppet-to-automatically-configure-new-ec2-instances/

16 years ago

Proofs without words

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/8846/proofs-without-words

16 years ago

How Dark Patterns can improve your conversion rates but damage your brand.

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/17/dark-patterns-an-overview-for-brand-owners/

16 years ago

Ruby Test::Unit sucks (and why I still use it)

http://evan.tiggerpalace.com/articles/2010/12/18/ruby-test-unit-sucks-and-why-i-still-use-it/

16 years ago

Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/18/former-yahoo-engineers-shed-light-on-why-delicious-and-other-acquisitions-failed/

16 years ago

Profit from frontpaging HN and Reddit - what now?

http://yieldthought.com/post/1477902830/37-91-from-frontpaging-hn-and-reddit-what-now/

16 years ago

The Economist's Books of the Year

http://www.economist.com/node/17626972

16 years ago

Ask HN: How do you balance college and a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020915

16 years ago

Apple posts free developer documentation for iBooks users

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/19/apple-posts-free-developer-documentation-for-ibooks-users/

16 years ago

I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest.

http://carwoo.com/blog/why-i-dont-want-to-write-a-blog-post/

16 years ago