top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-15

Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/microsoft-decides-to-automatically-update-internet-explorer-for-everyone-20111215/

15 years ago

626 upvotes – 171 comments

The nightmarish SOPA hearings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/the-nightmarish-sopa-hearings/2011/12/15/gIQA47RUwO_blog.html

15 years ago

592 upvotes – 166 comments

I'm starting to think LEGO is evil

http://sinker.tumblr.com/post/14267087602/im-starting-to-think-lego-is-evil

15 years ago

398 upvotes – 283 comments

Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 95 comments

Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/15/2638611/horseshit

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 164 comments

Linux flavors and derivatives tree

http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/11.10/gldt1110.svg

15 years ago

229 upvotes – 64 comments

Bug Prediction at Google

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 65 comments

Sergey Brin, et al. to U.S. Government: Do Not Emulate These Oppressive Nations

http://www.greyreview.com/2011/12/15/sergey-brin-jack-dorsey-chad-hurley-jimmy-wales-et-al-to-u-s-government-do-not-emulate-these-oppressive-nations-malaysia-china-and-iran/

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 85 comments

The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal

http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/book/cli-crash-course.html

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 87 comments

Report: Iran Hacked, Hijacked U.S. Drone

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 126 comments

Hacking Google for Fun and Profit

http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google-for-fun-and-profit/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 16 comments

Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/judge-gives-umg-24-hours-to-explain-takedown-spree.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 33 comments

Live video of House SOPA hearing

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/mark_12152011.html

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

Metaclasses in Python

http://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 30 comments

It’s Instant

http://blog.dwolla.com/its-instant/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

Riak Handbook

http://riakhandbook.com/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 16 comments

Fake App Becomes Real

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes-live-in-itunes/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 19 comments

Strangest Language Features

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 73 comments

Billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-founders?

http://designerfund.com/infographic

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 83 comments

Why big companies fail to keep talent

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/12/14/top-ten-reasons-why-large-companies-fail-to-keep-their-best-talent/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

French President’s Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy

http://torrentfreak.com/french-presidents-residence-busted-for-bittorrent-piracy-111215/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Startup escape path

http://swombat.com/2011/12/15/startup-escape-path

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Canonical to remove all Sun JDK packages from the Partner archive

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-December/001528.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 93 comments

Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

http://browserfame.com/321/chrome15-most-popular-browser-worldwide

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 74 comments

Understanding lvalues and rvalues in C and C++

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/12/15/understanding-lvalues-and-rvalues-in-c-and-c/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Windows Live Messenger supports XMPP

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/12/14/anyone-can-build-a-windows-live-messenger-client-with-open-standards-access-via-xmpp.aspx

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Learn Knockout.js in 30 minutes

http://learn.knockoutjs.com

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers

http://danwin.com/2011/12/louis-c-k-thanks-his-fans-for-buying-his-5-beacon-theater-show/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain

http://betashop.com/post/14249821547/behind-the-scenes-how-fab-raised-40-million-with-a

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/12/now-open-south-america-sao-paulo-region-ec2-s3-and-lots-more.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

The smallest possible valid (X)HTML documents

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/minimal-html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 1 comments

Map of CPAN

http://mapofcpan.org/#/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

3D printing could keep the ISS in orbit indefinitely

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/3d-printing-could-keep-the-iss-in-orbit-indefinitely-20111215/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Can't solve a quintic? Galois Theory in 1500 words

http://www.lisazhang.ca/2011/12/galois-theory-in-1500-words.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Inside Amazon's Playbook: How Bezos Built Today's GE

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/14/the-amazon-playbook/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: A new way to consume the social web

http://tawlk.com

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

Gumroad Lets You Sell Anything You Make

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/14/gumroad-lets-you-sell-anything-you-make/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Using Redis SORT and GET to save on roundtrips

http://trentstrong.com/blog/2011/using-redis-sort-get-save-roundtrips.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Visualizing Postmates' first 1000 deliveries in San Francisco

http://1000.postmates.com/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-is-close-to-releasing-siri-rival-called-majel-20111213/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

Bach cello suites visualized

http://flowingdata.com/2011/12/08/bach-cello-suites-visualized/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Galaxy Nexus Available In US

http://www.google.com/nexus/#utm_campaign=us&utm_source=ha-bk&utm_medium=sem&utm_term=%2Bnexus

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

Why programmers work at night

http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments
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