540
196
Google Engineer bails out student in jail
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2010/12/23/
16 years ago
289
53
CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN
http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#top
222
51
Write code like you just learned how to program
http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
204
58
If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002080.html
184
62
Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566201554448476.html
114
28
Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/24/common-mistakes-as-web-developer
102
32
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/
99
43
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/
97
Diseases of Affluence
http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/article/2010/nov/15/the-diseases-affluence/
92
66
How a Vim user converts to Emacs
http://bradbeveridge.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/how-a-vim-user-converts-to-emacs/
91
9
The Rise Of The Hybrid Startup
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/24/hybrid-startup/
22
How David Blaine Held His Breath
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1736834,00.html
86
46
Gift HN: tund - SSH to your stolen laptop
https://github.com/aphyr/tund
★ 416 Ruby MIT– 16 years ago
Ray Kurzweil: How My Predictions Are Faring (2010)
http://c0068172.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/predictions.pdf
84
69
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
78
63
How to create a startup country
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-create-a-startup-country
70
26
Uncertainty Can Increase Romantic Attraction
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21169522
68
8
Don't invert that matrix
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-matrix/
7
Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, with extra bonus goodies
http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibly-Go-Wrong
20
Full employment theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment_theorem
55
16
Crash course in applied functional programming
http://redsymbol.net/articles/crash-course-applied-functional-programming/
17
CELT: Next-generation low-latency audio codec from xiph.org
http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/celt/demo.html
Manuel Blum: Advice to a beginning graduate student
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html
23
Are smart people overrated?
http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm
52
30
Bjoern: A screamingly fast Python WSGI server written in C.
https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern
★ 3k C – 16 years ago
50
24
42 days of HN karma
http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/forty-two-days-of-hacker-news-karma.html
49
Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
11
Some Google employees defect, then rebel
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employees/
48
3
Why must the last part of an Objective-C method name take an argument?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4479967/why-must-the-last-part-of-an-objective-c-method-name-take-an-argument-when-there
44
37
Africa’s Rural Poor Begin Harnessing the Sun
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/science/earth/25fossil.html?pagewanted=1&src=twr
42
6
Help Uganda children and make Vim better at the same time
http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php
