top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-07

Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer

https://www.mint.com/accounting

15 years ago

672 upvotes – 149 comments

Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/tv-experiment-goes-awry-sends-cannonball-rocketing-through-homes/

15 years ago

496 upvotes – 298 comments

You've Probably Read Enough

http://bennesvig.com/2011/12/05/youve-probably-read-enough/

15 years ago

410 upvotes – 72 comments

Thoughts on Python 3

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/7/thoughts-on-python3/

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 118 comments

Please Donate to the Internet Archive

http://blog.archive.org/2011/12/07/please-donate-to-the-internet-archive/

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 46 comments

Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GoodUXInTheWildDropboxsAttentionToDetailOnTheirDownloadPage.aspx

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 38 comments

CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads

http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 74 comments

What I suspect Google is up to with Native Client

http://www.hackerspews.com/?a

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 89 comments

Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

http://haacked.com/archive/2011/12/07/hello-github.aspx

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 124 comments

Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

https://github.com/welaika/wordless

15 years ago

★ 1.4k PHP
165 upvotes – 85 comments

Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd)

http://deadmemes.net/2010/10/19/fear-and-loathing-in-debianubuntu-or-who-needs-etcmotd/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 85 comments

After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, We’ve Lost Confidence In PayPal

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/paypal-account-freeze/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 81 comments

Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 55 comments

Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.

http://dougaitken.tumblr.com/post/13849170869/hacker-news-ev-news

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/06/apple_submits_updated_renderings_plans_for_cupertino_spaceship_campus.html

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 53 comments

Google Android: The Accidental Empire

http://nikcub.appspot.com/google-android-the-accidental-empire

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 115 comments

Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript

http://elm-lang.org/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 50 comments

Can your REPL do this?

http://whalliburton.github.com/academy/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 35 comments

Five-minute Multimethods in Python

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

A better search for visually similar images

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/crossDomainMatching/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 11 comments
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