top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-20

The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/08/12/the_secret_history_of_kim_jong_il?hidecomments=yes&page=full

15 years ago

631 upvotes – 154 comments

Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/misunderstood-pigs/id431451004?ls=1&mt=8

15 years ago

625 upvotes – 123 comments

Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/12/dropping-a-magnet-through-a-copper-pipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

569 upvotes – 106 comments

Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for

http://brajeshwar.com/2011/desingineer-the-mythical-person-every-startups-are-looking-for/

15 years ago

365 upvotes – 200 comments

ISO C is increasingly moronic

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/thetoolsweworkwith.html

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 167 comments

Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search-in-firefox/

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 88 comments

My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

http://carpeaqua.com/2011/12/19/my-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-mac-os-x-2011-edition-/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 120 comments

Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2011/12/good-news-mozilla-fixed-their-damn-browser/

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371938

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 36 comments

Rails 3.2 RC1: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/12/20/rails-3-2-rc1-faster-dev-mode-routing-explain-queries-tagged-logger-store

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 50 comments

Sony sued over PSN "can't sue us" clause

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/sony-sued-over-psn-cant-sue-us-clause-20111220/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 70 comments

63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor

http://paulrouget.com/e/colorssurvey/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just remaking a spreadsheet?

http://n8.tumblr.com/post/14518334287/37signals-doesnt-like-you-sorting-stuff-or-why-are

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 67 comments

A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/14510782165/a-stupid-idea-one-year-later

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Massive Ruby speed boost with JRuby and Java 7.

http://blog.jruby.org/2011/12/getting_started_with_jruby_and_java_7/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant

http://www.ousbey.com/blog/make-yourself-redundant

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

GitHub releases their CI server, Janky

https://github.com/github/janky

15 years ago

★ 2.7k Ruby MIT
135 upvotes – 21 comments

IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57344881-52/ibm-mind-reading-is-less-than-five-years-away-for-real/?tag=rtcol

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 90 comments

DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

R for the JVM: 60% complete, help wanted!

http://code.google.com/p/renjin/wiki/PlanOfAttack

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments
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