top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-10

Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage

https://buy.louisck.net/purchase

15 years ago

592 upvotes – 160 comments

Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/09/apple-made-a-deal-with-the-devil-no-worse-a-patent-troll/

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 64 comments

Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/10151917022/shockingly-unshocking-two-congressional-staffers-who-helped-write-sopapipa-become-entertainment-industry-lobbyists.shtml

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 58 comments

I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

http://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bittorrent-111210/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 86 comments

Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”

http://torrentfreak.com/universal-censors-megaupload-song-gets-branded-a-rogue-label-111210/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 79 comments

The end of social

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/the-end-of-social.html

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 41 comments

Getting a job in software development: A Reddit discussion round-up

http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/n5spv/getting_a_job_in_software_development_a_reddit/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 45 comments

A Reddit tattoo in thanks for bone-marrow-transplant flash fundraiser

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/a-reddit-tattoo-in-thanks-for-bone-marrow-transplant-flash-fundraiser/2011/12/09/gIQAyUtvhO_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_tw

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

Timepicker for jQuery inspired by Google Calendar

http://jonthornton.github.com/jquery-timepicker/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 18 comments

Facebook is Hiding Your Mail

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/facebook_s_other_messages_mail_you_are_probably_missing.html

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 44 comments

2000x performance win

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/12/08/2000x-performance-win/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Hash Functions

http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Quotes from the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968

http://www.peterkrantz.com/2011/software-engineering-in-1968/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: small startups, what do you use for health insurance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3338161

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer

http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Lamest bug we ever encountered

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/lamest-bug-we-ever-encountered.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Discovery of the Higgs Boson rumoured to be at 3.5 sigma.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4212

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

What Facebook, Google+ and YouTube would have looked like in 1997

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/10/what-facebook-google-and-youtube-would-have-looked-like-in-1997/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Medical Patents Must Die

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/medical-patents-must-die.html#hn

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Scientists Find Studying For Test To Become London Cabbie Enlarges Brain

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/09/143465903/scientists-find-studying-for-test-to-become-london-cabbie-enlarges-brain

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments
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