top 50% 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

226 upvotes – 69 comments

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

158 upvotes – 38 comments

VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)

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

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 29 comments

Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video)

http://blog.hipmunk.com/37090485

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 60 comments

How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup

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

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 27 comments

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

121 upvotes – 36 comments

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

119 upvotes – 56 comments

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

http://tibleiz.net/zinc/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

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

111 upvotes – 95 comments

Great. Skype is down.

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

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

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

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Tell HN: Writing helps

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

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Building a Recommendation Engine with NumPy

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

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

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

86 upvotes – 12 comments

AI Defeats the Hivemind

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

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

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

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Skype brief post-mortem

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

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 65 comments

Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released

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

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Fish sucks (but your shell sucks more)

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

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Google Purchases 111 Eighth Avenue, NYC

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

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

Which Smalltalk?

http://smalltalkzen.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/which-smalltalk/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

What Separates a Generalist and a Dabbler?

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=438

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Android In Spaaaace

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-in-spaaaace.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12059564

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

RIP Things

http://brooksreview.net/2010/12/rip-things/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

A serious drug problem

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/22/930871/-America-has-a-serious-drug-problem

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

A hacker's Christmas wishlist

http://writings.withoutfriction.com/some-quick-and-easy-gift-ideas-for-geeks-or-m

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Hacking your OSX Address Book with C, Racket and LaTeX

http://matt.might.net/articles/address-book-hacking/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

Tell HN: Free Book Giveaway

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2031412

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

US driving Swedish Data Retention

http://www.piratpartiet.se/cables-us-driving-swedish-data-retention

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Scala Pros and Cons

http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2010/12/scala-pros-and-cons.html

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

PyPy 1.4.1 released

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/12/pypy-141.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

A Visual Guide to Net Neutrality and its Importance

http://www.theopeninter.net

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

http://kyleclouse.com/mormons-lds-church-seo/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 60 comments

Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

http://www.wingify.com/conversion-blog/how-important-website-titles-seo/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 25 comments

Kevin Smith on pursuing ideas

http://blog.akash.im/kevin-smith-on-pursuing-ideas

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

Asynchronous Processing in Python Using Redis

http://richardhenry.github.com/hotqueue/tutorial.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments

Federal reserve admits it doled out trillions of tax dollars to foreign banks

http://pubrecord.org/nation/8622/pentagon-papers-wall-street/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 25 comments

8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/kids-study-bees/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 14 comments

Hot Startups Lack Female Employees (even as applicants)

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/hottest-startups-full-bros

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 75 comments

The Blast Shack, Bruce Sterling's (long) essay on Wikileaks

http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 6 comments

Where Is Awarded "The Mother of All Geofencing Patents"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/where-geofencing-patent/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 12 comments

X.Org 7.6 Released

http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.6

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 2 comments

Don’t just write comments, tell a story

http://shahriarhaque.com/blog/?p=83

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 16 comments

How-to: create a real-time search app with IndexTank and Heroku

http://blog.indextank.com/132/creating-real-time-search-engine-indextank-heroku/

16 years ago

33 upvotes – 12 comments
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