top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-25

Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf

16 years ago

336 upvotes – 54 comments

What is Traitorware?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/what-traitorware

16 years ago

255 upvotes – 43 comments

Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money

http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/

16 years ago

221 upvotes – 192 comments

Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12043294

16 years ago

210 upvotes – 13 comments

Merry Christmas, HN. Hackety Hack 1.0 is here.

http://blog.hackety-hack.com/post/2457961910/merry-christmas-and-a-1-0-announcement

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 26 comments

Kod.app is open source

https://github.com/rsms/kod

16 years ago

★ 2.2k Objective-C
160 upvotes – 64 comments

Zombie.js -- headless full-stack testing using node.js

http://zombie.labnotes.org/

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

Mapping Income Distribution by Religious Belief

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 93 comments

Income Inequality and the 'Superstar Effect'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You

http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

A response to "Erlang - overhyped or underestimated"

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/12/response-to-erlang-overhyped-or.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Emscripten: an LLVM to JavaScript compiler

http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Top Things We Learned About SEO in 2010

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-10-things-we-learned-about-seo-in-2010?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seomoz+%28SEOmoz+Daily+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Node.js powered MMO scrabble

http://wordsquared.com/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Queueing Theory — Why the other lines always seem to move faster than yours

http://flowingdata.com/2010/12/24/why-the-other-lines-always-seem-to-move-faster-than-yours/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tputh+%28TPUTH+-+Breaking+News+With+The+Social+Hammer%29&utm_content=Twitter

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Chrome Extension: Python Shell

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gdiimmpmdoofmahingpgabiikimjgcia

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

The industry as a whole makes its choices on the basis of folklore

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-cannot-rightly-apprehend-the-confusion-of-i

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 22 comments

A Christmas Failure

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/12/a-christmas-fai.php

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MESSAGE_IN_A_BOTTLE?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Favourite Programming Quotes

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/39/whats-your-favourite-quote-about-programming

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

Africa is the last wave of outsroucing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12004815

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 26 comments

Merry Quine-mas

http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-quine-mas-2010.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments
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