top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-22

The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-simple-software-that-could-but-probably-wont-change-the-face-of-writing/68364/

16 years ago

Homeland Security Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The Law

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101217/01190512310/homeland-security-presents-evidence-domain-seizures-proves-it-knows-little-about-internet---law.shtml

16 years ago

VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

16 years ago

Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video)

http://blog.hipmunk.com/37090485

16 years ago

How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/08/03/new-ideas-can-kill-your-startup/

16 years ago

More Mistakes Discovered In DHS's Domain Seizures

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101222/02112912376/more-bigger-mistakes-discovered-homeland-securitys-domain-seizures.shtml

16 years ago

DotCloud (YC S10) Mix and Match Cloud Platform Launches

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/yc-funded-dotcloud-an-application-platform-that-lets-you-mix-and-match/

16 years ago

Zinc: a low level language between assembler, C and C++ with Ruby-like syntax

http://tibleiz.net/zinc/

16 years ago

Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited

http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2010/12/python-as-alternative-to-lisp-or-java.html

16 years ago

Great. Skype is down.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/12/22/great-skype-is-down/

16 years ago

First we built an API, then we built a CMS

http://www.gethifi.com/blog/first-we-built-an-api-then-we-built-a-cms

16 years ago

Tell HN: Writing helps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2031235

16 years ago

Building a Recommendation Engine with NumPy

http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/matrix/recommend/

16 years ago

Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To)

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/22/everything-the-internet-knows-about-me-because-i-asked-it-to

16 years ago

AI Defeats the Hivemind

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26186/

16 years ago

Wayne Ting, nearly a billionaire. Or how Facebook won

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/12/wayne_ting_nearly_a_billionair.html

16 years ago

Skype brief post-mortem

http://www.skype.com/content/skype/intl/en-us/StatusUpdate.html

16 years ago

Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released

https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0b8/releasenotes/

16 years ago

Fish sucks (but your shell sucks more)

http://markhansen.co.nz/fish-sucks/

16 years ago

Google Purchases 111 Eighth Avenue, NYC

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/investing-in-new-york.html

16 years ago