top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-21

Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/jurors-can-say-no.html

15 years ago

353 upvotes – 133 comments

Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_really_creeping_me_out_with_this_how/

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 157 comments

John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/

15 years ago

306 upvotes – 216 comments

Smoke Screening: Journalist tests TSA

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 95 comments

Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby

http://hungryacademy.com/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 165 comments

All Programmers Are Self-Taught

http://jgneuf.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/all-programmers-are-self-taught/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 79 comments

Bingo Card Creator (etc) Year In Review 2011

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/21/bingo-card-creator-etc-year-in-review-2011/

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 74 comments

Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-user-retention-lifecycle-email

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 62 comments

Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 107 comments

Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/2011-review-20-sites-pushed-javascript-limit

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 27 comments

Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 Billion

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/seagate-samsung-acquisition/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 68 comments

Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/scribd-protests-sopa/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 53 comments

700,000 Android devices activated each day

https://plus.google.com/112599748506977857728/posts/PLAaEFy1fNa

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 89 comments

How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston

http://mixergy.com/drew-houston-dropbox-interview/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

Nest thermostat teardown

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/334

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83135286/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

The Golden Age of the Developer

http://www.kernelmag.com/scene/2011/12/developers-developers-developers/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

What to Look For in PHP 5.4

http://jburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/what-to-look-for-in-php-5-4-0/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 60 comments

Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/bitcoins-comeback-should-western-union-be-afraid.ars

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either

http://searchengineland.com/dear-congress-its-not-ok-not-to-know-how-search-engines-work-either-105265

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments
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