top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-20

Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/using-flat-files-so-elections-dont-break-your-server/?src=tptw

16 years ago

Title Junk

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/title_junk

16 years ago

You don't really want a million dollars

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/12/you-dont-really-want-a-million-dollars/

16 years ago

Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life

http://connectedcomedy.com/kevin-smiths-secrets-to-a-successful-life/

16 years ago

Impact HTML5 Game Engine released

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/12/brace-for-impact

16 years ago

How an Engineer Does Pizza

http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

16 years ago

Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-cleancode/

16 years ago

Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=432

16 years ago

Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html

16 years ago

Pandora, Angry Birds, other apps selling private info to advertisers

http://lifehacker.com/5715188/these-apps-are-rampantly-stealing-your-info-without-permission

16 years ago

Realtime encoding - over 150x faster

http://transloadit.com/blog/2010/12/realtime-encoding-over-150x-faster

16 years ago

Flirting Social Network Likealittle Hits 20M Pageviews In 6 Weeks

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/

16 years ago

iAd Producer from Apple

http://developer.apple.com/iad/iadproducer/

16 years ago

The puzzle that started complexity theory.

http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind/mccarthypuzzle.html

16 years ago

AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/aol-acquires-personal-profile-startup-about-me/

16 years ago

A 'Thank You' from Google

http://www.google.com/landing/thankyou/2010/

16 years ago

Why Facebook never happened in the UK. The case of FitFinder.

http://oonwoye.com/2010/12/20/why-facebook-never-happened-in-the-uk-the-case-of-fitfinder/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026080

16 years ago

An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons

http://blog.izs.me/post/2353458699/an-open-letter-to-javascript-leaders-regarding

16 years ago

Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-quietly-shuts-down-office-genuine-advantage-program/2798

16 years ago

Vertical farming: Does it really stack up?

http://www.economist.com/node/17647627?story_id=17647627

16 years ago

XSS vulnerability found in Github

https://github.com/Stuk/hackgh

16 years ago

Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9294890.stm

16 years ago

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html#

16 years ago

Avoiding Burnout in a Software Startup

http://www.tophatmonocle.com/blog/2010/12/20/avoiding-burnout-software-startup/

16 years ago

A Graph Processing Stack

http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/12/a-graph-processing-stack/

16 years ago

Forrst v3 Launched Today

http://blog.forrst.com/post/2387937011/the-new-forrst

16 years ago

A collection of apps the 37signals team started using in the past year

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2714-a-collection-of-apps-the-37signals-team-started-using-in-the-past-year

16 years ago

The Internet is made out of meat

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/its-made-out-of-meat.html

16 years ago

Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/free-calling-in-gmail-extended-through.html

16 years ago

Inside Rockst*r Games

http://blog.zerodean.com/2010/blog/my-life-at-rockstar-games/

16 years ago

Why Google's Chrome notebook will succeed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40745343/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

16 years ago

Undue process: how Uncle Sam seized BitTorrent domain names

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/busting-bittorrent.ars

16 years ago

Farewell NYC (and YCW11 rejection next steps)

http://www.richpalmer.org/farewell-nyc

16 years ago

Show HN: Our (two) weekend project: 365.io - A photo a day for one year.

http://365.io

16 years ago

A polyglot quine

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916

16 years ago

Erlang/OTP on android

http://www.burbas.se/artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattform/

16 years ago

How To Write A Quine

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html

16 years ago

Planning to hack over the holidays? Heroku & Indextank Search contest

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/12/20/hacking-over-the-holidays/

16 years ago

What's the point of stealing $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio?

http://www.slate.com/id/2278380/

16 years ago

Censorship - Won’t someone think of the adults?

http://gonedigital.net/2010/12/20/censorship-%E2%80%93-won%E2%80%99t-someone-think-of-the-adults/

16 years ago

Solving the Carwoo code-breaking challenge

http://grack.com/blog/2010/12/19/solving-the-carwoo-code-breaking-challenge/

16 years ago

Monitoring America

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/print/

16 years ago

Liquid breathing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing

16 years ago