top 50% 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

Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Canadians+start+vaccine+clinical+trials/5890341/story.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate

http://www.inc.com/brian-halligan/hiring-process-vet-a-candidate.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 65 comments

Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice"

http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/mayor-munich-eu-laptops-should-have-libreoffice-or-openoffice

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 53 comments

Build your own web search engine

http://himmele.blogspot.com/2011/05/build-your-own-internet-search-engine.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol

http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2011/07/websockets-is-a-stream-not-a-message-based-protocol.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Where are all those Galaxy Nexus subpixels?

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/where-are-all-those-galaxy-nexus-subpixels-20111221/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Sending holiday cards, but I don't have addresses, so I made SendSpree

https://www.sendspree.com

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

"Lifestyle" CEO bootstraps business to 30 MM unique visitors: The wikiHow story

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/12/16/how-to-build-a-lifestyle-business-with-30m-visitors-per-month/?single_page=true

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

DOJ takes bloggers laptops over reader comments left at Wordpress hosted blog

http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-comment/blog.html?b=opinion.financialpost.com/2011/12/20/climate-crackdown

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Sharing Scheduler App Buffer Raises $400,000, Gets Kicked Out Of US

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/sharing-scheduler-app-buffer-raises-400000-gets-kicked-out-of-us/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Investors In Our $400,000 Seed Round And How We Met Them

http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-17-awesome-investors-in-our-400000-seed-round-and-how-we-met-them

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Hacking Minecraft into WebGL

http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/implementing-minecraft-in-webgl/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

Introduction to Information Retrieval (pdf/html)

http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Lessons learned from 3 months on YC and 3 years in SF

http://peternixey.com/post/14565856457/what-i-learned-from-3-months-on-yc-and-3-years-in-sf

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

The Comeback of Xerox PARC

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39222/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

The No-Brainer Issue of the Year: Let High-Skill Immigrants Stay

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/the-no-brainer-issue-of-the-year-let-high-skill-immigrants-stay/250219/#

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 68 comments

'Tis the season for giving (to open source)

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-12-21-season-for-giving.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

India’s $45 tablet sold out in a week as pre-orders open for $55 2nd gen device

http://thenextweb.com/in/2011/12/21/indias-45-tablet-sold-out-in-a-week-as-pre-orders-open-for-55-device/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

Introducing Sugarless - A Functional & Context Oriented way to write JavaScript

http://laktek.com/2011/12/21/introducing-sugarless/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 16 comments

SOPA/PIPA Update

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/12/sopapipa-update.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 4 comments

Order theory for computer scientists

http://matt.might.net/articles/partial-orders/?

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 5 comments
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