top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-27

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/27/wired

16 years ago

230 upvotes – 110 comments

RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was.lying.on.iphone.in.2007/

16 years ago

220 upvotes – 77 comments

How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/811246/how-to-hide-thinking-at-work-so-that-the-non-programmers-dont-suspect-slacking/

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 52 comments

Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/12/putin-orders-russian-move-to-gnulinux.html

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

On Depression & Getting Help

http://robdelaney.tumblr.com/post/414007899/on-depression-getting-help

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

How not to design a landing page: Tazo Tea

http://www.tazo.com/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 62 comments

Dumb and gets things done

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/27/dumb-and-gets-things-done/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie games

http://venturebeat.com/2010/12/27/humble-bundle-sale-ends/

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

Meld - a great visual diff and merge tool for linux

http://meld.sourceforge.net/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Google's Marissa Mayer: Girls Can Be Geeks, Too

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/22/google-s-marissa-mayer-girls-can-be-geeks-too.html?from=rss

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 44 comments

Emotional Rescue

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/emotional_rescue

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 99 comments

Facebook Engineering Puzzles

http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Vim plugin makes Ruby blocks into text objects

http://vimcasts.org/blog/2010/12/a-text-object-for-ruby-blocks/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/12/23/james-burke-connections/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

I don't dwell on the past

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/12/i-dont-dwell-on-the-past.html

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

The A.I. Revolution Is On

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_essay_airevolution/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

2011: The Year Android Explodes

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/26/2011-android/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Anyone use AOLServer recently?

http://aolserver.github.com/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications

http://addyosmani.com/blog/large-scale-jquery/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Scott Adams: Tax the Comfortable

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/tax_the_comfortable/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 136 comments

Do a startup or travel around the world?

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/do-a-startup-or-travel-around-the-world.htm

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Chaos Computer Club Congress starts today. Livestreams.

http://27c3.iphoneblog.de/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Haskell and the "foul stench of cargo cult mathematics"

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=788

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

Apple is not a luxury brand

http://blog.yafla.com/The_Biggest_Lie_That_Ever_Was_Told/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

"In Haskell we think for quite a long time before starting typing"

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4864#comment:1

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Claim of Superconductivity Above 0C

http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/claim-of-superconductivity-above-0.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

How To: Making a great screencast

http://wistia.com/blog/how-to-5-steps-to-making-a-great-screencast/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields

http://www.neuroquantology.com/repository/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:honeybees-are-found-to-interact-with-quantum-fields&catid=59:quantum-field-theory-in-brain&Itemid=70

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

The Washington Post overdoses on Facebook

http://someguysblog.com/2010/12/facebook-and-the-washington-post/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

How To Talk to Investors About Your Competitors

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/26/talking-to-a-vc-about-your-competitors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BothSidesOfTheTable+%28Both+Sides+of+the+Table%29

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 1 comments

Stuxnet may have destroyed 1,000 centrifuges at Natanz

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=200843

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

Neanderthals cooked and ate vegetables

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12071424

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

3 Types of Programmers: Zerg, Terran, Protoss

http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/12/3-types-of-programmers-zerg-terran.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

Making Macros in CoffeeScript

http://blog.davidpadbury.com/2010/12/09/making-macros-in-coffeescript/#

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments

Micro-volunteering

https://www.sparked.com/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 21 comments

The Meritocracy Myth

http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v21/merit.htm

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 39 comments

450 Page Google Docs Presentation

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/12/16/450-page-google-docs-presentation/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

The $85 Smartphone and the imminent extinction of non-smartphones

http://www.asymco.com/2010/12/27/the-85-smartphone/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 58 comments

"Game Layer on Top of the World": Nissan Leaf's Driving Karma System

http://green.autoblog.com/2010/12/23/nissan-leaf-carwings-efficiency/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 14 comments

The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy

http://cdixon.org/2010/12/26/the-thin-edge-of-the-wedge-strategy/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments

Your Smartphone’s Battery Gauge is Lying to You (and it’s not such a bad thing)

http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/your-smartphones-battery-gauge-is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 10 comments

Why (Some) Smart People Hate Programming

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=711

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 17 comments
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