top 50% 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

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

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

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

ISO C is increasingly moronic

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

15 years ago

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

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

Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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

15 years ago

Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)

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

15 years ago

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

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

63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor

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

15 years ago

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

A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN

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

15 years ago

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

My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant

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

15 years ago

GitHub releases their CI server, Janky

https://github.com/github/janky

15 years ago

★ 2.7k Ruby MIT

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

DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking

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

15 years ago

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

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

15 years ago

Rob Pike on Go interfaces

https://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/8de71de10ea48f96

15 years ago

Notch's New Game - Minicraft (And An Android Port)

http://gun.io/blog/notchs-new-game-minicraft-source-code-and-android-port/

15 years ago

Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEdwNEJkVk9jempXcHF2UUYtRlZTQ3c6MQ

15 years ago

You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla

http://blog.ascher.ca/2011/12/19/you-knew-the-old-mozilla-meet-the-new-mozilla/

15 years ago

Indian government drops plan to censor the internet

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/No-question-of-Internet-censorship--assures-govt/888443/

15 years ago

Why Science is Failing Us

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1

15 years ago

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm?

15 years ago

New kind of metal in the deep Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219112216.htm

15 years ago

Vnc.js: how to build a JavaScript VNC Client

http://engineering.linkedin.com/javascript/vncjs-how-build-javascript-vnc-client-24-hour-hackday

15 years ago

MITx is a game changer for higher education

http://www.masmithers.com/2011/12/20/early-thoughts-on-mitx/

15 years ago

Silly Python riddle

http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/14506657016/silly-python-riddle

15 years ago

Haskell: OOP vs type classes

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/OOP_vs_type_classes

15 years ago

Trouble in Node.js paradise: The mess that is npm

http://mikkel.hoegh.org/blog/2011/12/20/trouble-in-node-dot-js-paradise-the-mess-that-is-npm/

15 years ago

The ‘Gowalla Situation’

http://teamblog.supportbee.com/2011/12/20/the-gowalla-situation/

15 years ago

CryptDB - Encrypted MySQL

http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/

15 years ago

Pen.io is now probably the most minimalist blog platform on the Web

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/20/pen-io-is-now-probably-the-most-minimalist-blog-platform-on-the-web/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=Pen.io%20is%20now%20probably%20the%20most%20minimalist%20blog%20platform%20on%20the%20Web&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

15 years ago

Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Data Center

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/19/source-groupon-doesnt-have-the-cash-to-build-its-new-data-center/

15 years ago

Posterous Spaces is built on Backbone.js

http://technology.posterous.com/posterous-spaces-is-built-on-backbonejs

15 years ago

Speeding up the Internet by bouncing data off the ceiling

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/109765-speeding-up-the-internet-by-bouncing-data-off-the-ceiling

15 years ago

Apple takes patent attacks in a new direction

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/20/apple-takes-patent-attacks-in-a-new-direction/

15 years ago