283
113
Merry Christmas HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624
16 years ago
208
32
Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms
181
27
Spelling Corrector in 21 lines of Python
http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
165
55
Who Writes Wikipedia?
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
149
36
The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman
http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.ws
139
64
The $20 Starbucks Test
http://blog.snootymonkey.com/post/2432103782/the-20-starbucks-test
137
15
1k 3D Christmas tree in Javascript
http://js1k.com/2010-xmas/demo/848
126
88
My conversation with AT&T
http://jasongullickson.posterous.com/my-conversation-with-att
125
134
Why Businesses Can’t Stand Free Markets
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-22/why-businesses-can-t-stand-free-markets-veronique-de-rugy.html
115
48
Unicode Snowman for You
http://xn--n3h.net/
102
21
Free Icon Set for Web Developers: Coded
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/23/free-icon-set-for-web-developers-coded/
97
29
A bad design is a good reminder
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2719-a-bad-design-is-a-good-reminder
95
22
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief (April 2010)
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/all/1
10
User Experience for Developers
http://uxmag.com/design/user-experience-for-developers
30
Netflix: We're Working On HTML5 Standard to Bring Streaming Video to All Devices
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/netflix_were_working_on_html5_standard_to_bring_st.php
86
Paul Rand's Unused Ford Logo from 1966
http://imjustcreative.com/paul-rands-unused-ford-logo-from-1966/2010/12/23/
18
Sales-Driven Side Projects
http://seeinginteractive.com/newspaper-support-group/sales-driven-side-projects/
83
31
MongoDB gotchas for the unaware user
http://senko.net/en/mongodb-gotchas/
A Censorship-Resistant Web
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/uncensor
80
51
BYTE, the most beloved computer-magazine brand of all, is coming back.
http://technologizer.com/2010/12/22/good-grief-byte-is-coming-back/
79
20
RethinkDB internals: making coroutines fast
http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2010/12/making-coroutines-fast/
77
92
We don't need freedom of religion
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/need+freedom+religion/4002627/story.html
76
Forget 200 lines, Red Hat speeds up Linux with 4 lines of code
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/forget-200-lines-red-hat-speed.html
74
Should you take a pay cut to work at a startup?
http://www.ellenbeldner.info/2010/12/elad_gil_bootstrapping_raise_d.html
73
Take a paycut to work at a startup
http://swombat.com/2010/12/23/take-a-pay-cut-to-work-at-a-startup
72
52
A secure way to store website users "offsite" but still own them.
http://autho.me
19
Diaspora ported to use buddycloud channels and XMPP
http://buddycloud.com/cms/node/210
63
6
Underhanded C: The Leaky Redaction
http://notanumber.net/archives/54/underhanded-c-the-leaky-redaction
61
Why is Groupon so important?
http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/12/23/why-is-groupon-so-important.html
58
81
Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa507.pdf
54
Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/whats-on-your-mind/477517358858
49
47
Why UT Austin is second-rate at producing startup founders
http://greengiraffe.posterous.com/why-ut-austin-is-second-rate-at-producing-sta
26
Brand new homepage for Taskforce... what do you think?
http://www.taskforceapp.com/
46
Not Really 'Made in China'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704828104576021142902413796.html
45
16
Bank of America buying up offensive domain names
http://www.itworld.com/internet/131693/as-it-awaits-wikileaks-bomb-bank-america-buys-offensive-domain-names-and-does-a-slop
43
Top 250 cracked Gawker passwords
http://www.duosecurity.com/docs/top250gawker.txt
42
8
Camera+ for iPhone hits 500,000 sales just 2 days after launching Camera+ 2
http://taptaptap.com/blog/camera-plus-hits-500000/
7
Django Security Releases Issued
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/security/
Awesome email advice from a friend on how to learn programming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033858
GCCalc: a horrible abuse of GCC
http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2007/12/14/presenting-gccalc-a-horribly-awesome-abuse-of-gcc/
41
Understanding Today's Skype Outage: Explaining Supernodes
http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2010/12/understanding-todays-skype-outage-explaining-supernodes.html
3
OpenBSD code audit uncovers bugs, but no evidence of backdoor
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/openbsd-code-audit-uncovers-bugs-but-no-evidence-of-backdoor.ars
34
Common Application Users Find a Glitch
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html
4
Dan Ariely: The Significant Objects Project
http://danariely.com/2009/12/25/the-significant-objects-project/