top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-08

What really happened aboard Air France 447

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

15 years ago

858 upvotes – 365 comments

Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml

15 years ago

560 upvotes – 121 comments

The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars

https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/TpN1g1oSVbN

15 years ago

420 upvotes – 333 comments

Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe

http://gc-taylor.com/blog/2011/12/8/why-we-ditched-paypal-stripe/

15 years ago

382 upvotes – 119 comments

Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/apple-never-designed-the-ipad-they-undesigned-it/

15 years ago

358 upvotes – 225 comments

17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/17-year-old-wins-100k-for-creating-cancer-killing-nanoparticle-2011128/

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 112 comments

What Eric Schmidt actually said

http://julianyap.com/2011/12/08/What-Eric-Schmidt-actually-said.html

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 48 comments

Announcing Amber.js

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/08/announcing-amber-js/

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 112 comments

A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204770404577082933921432686.html

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 163 comments

Knuth and the Unix Way

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 62 comments

'I'm Retiring,' Nintendo's Miyamoto Tells His Staff

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/miyamoto-interview/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support

https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/238

15 years ago

★ 72 C
167 upvotes – 93 comments

I quit my job to do a startup.

http://blog.eval.me/?p=26

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 104 comments

Founder's Hell: Competitive Horror

http://mittermayr.tumblr.com/post/13920013660/founders-hell-competitive-horror

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

Simple ways to improve the security of a web app

http://blog.fiesta.cc/post/13896457582/three-simple-ways-to-improve-the-security-of-your-web

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

Standing Up For Android

http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/standing-up-for-android

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 77 comments

Standing Up For Android

http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/standing-up-for-android/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

Evernote: Company of the Year

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-the-year.html

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 56 comments

Aliasing and you

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/12/fast-approximate-anti-aliasing-fxaa.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

How we got the Hall.com domain

http://blog.hall.com/post/13936429456/how-we-got-the-hall-com-domain

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 94 comments

"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest developed nation

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2011/12/08/australian-exceptionalism/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 148 comments

Computers Will Entertain Us to Death

http://restrictionisexpression.com/post/13921641575/computers-will-entertain-us-to-death

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

Java Doesn't Need to Be So Bad

http://twitch.nervestaple.com/2011/12/04/java-patterns/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Imagine a world where Bash supports JSON.

http://qaa.ath.cx/TheEmperorsNewClothes.html?

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Simulated Knitting in Python

http://blog.learnfromdata.com/2011/11/simulated-knitting.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Twitter Redesigns Around Four Concepts: Home Timeline, Connect, Discover, Me

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/twitter-resigns-around-four-concepts-home-timeline-connect-discover-me-letsfly/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

Rails Is Not For Beginners

http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/code/rails-is-not-for-beginners/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 77 comments

Flash 0-day exploit

https://lists.immunityinc.com/pipermail/dailydave/2011-December/000402.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/12/the_innumeracy_of_educators_or.php

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

IBM Watson to battle patent trolls

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108281-ibm-watson-to-battle-patent-trolls

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Clojure and Logic: Lojic Part Two

http://clojure.com/blog/2011/12/08/lojic-part-two.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution

http://www.elezea.com/2011/12/google-path-ui-design/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/gmail-and-contacts-get-better-with.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Jawbone Cancels All Pending Up Orders, Refunds Unhappy Owners

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/jawbone-cancels-all-pending-up-orders-refunds-unhappy-owners-even-if-they-keep-it/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Socket.io benchmarking - how many messages can you send per second?

http://drewww.github.com/socket.io-benchmarking/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Clean Ruby

http://www.clean-ruby.com/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Websites are clients, too

http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/12/08/web-sites-are-clients-too/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 2 comments

Dartmouth computer scientists expanding diff, grep Unix tools

http://www.itworld.com/software/231515/usenix-dartmouth-expanding-diff-grep-unix-tools

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Malaysia government to draft insane Act for Computing Professionals

https://plus.google.com/116040656840015645378/posts/1byMQhGvREn

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 43 comments

How Dr. Terry Wahls Cured Her Own MS with Dietary Changes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc&feature=youtu.be

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Conquering the CHAOS of Online Community at Stack Exchange

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/07/conquering-the-chaos-of-online-community-at-stack-exchange/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments
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