top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-24

Google Engineer bails out student in jail

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2010/12/23/

16 years ago

540 upvotes – 196 comments

CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#top

16 years ago

289 upvotes – 53 comments

Write code like you just learned how to program

http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html

16 years ago

222 upvotes – 51 comments

If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002080.html

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 58 comments

Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566201554448476.html

16 years ago

184 upvotes – 62 comments

Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/24/common-mistakes-as-web-developer

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

The Internet is a public commons erected on private property

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2010/12/wikileaks-exposes-internets-dissent-tax-not-nerd-supremacy/68397/

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened

http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2010/12/23/skype-outage-i-run-a-supernode-and-heres-what-i-think-happened/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 43 comments

Diseases of Affluence

http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/article/2010/nov/15/the-diseases-affluence/

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

How a Vim user converts to Emacs

http://bradbeveridge.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/how-a-vim-user-converts-to-emacs/

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

How David Blaine Held His Breath

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1736834,00.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

The Rise Of The Hybrid Startup

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/24/hybrid-startup/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Gift HN: tund - SSH to your stolen laptop

https://github.com/aphyr/tund

16 years ago

★ 416 Ruby MIT
86 upvotes – 46 comments

Ray Kurzweil: How My Predictions Are Faring (2010)

http://c0068172.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/predictions.pdf

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Testing is waste of time, I know that my code works

http://progfu.com/post/384151811/testing-is-waste-of-time-i-know-that-my-code-works

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 69 comments

How to create a startup country

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-create-a-startup-country

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments

Uncertainty Can Increase Romantic Attraction

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21169522

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Don't invert that matrix

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-matrix/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, with extra bonus goodies

http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibly-Go-Wrong

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Full employment theorem

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

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments
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