top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-25

Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit)

http://hakim.se/experiments/css/domtree

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 33 comments

Death to .DS_Store

http://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 122 comments

GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone

http://www.dailychanges.com/domaincontrol.com/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 32 comments

Decades later, a Cold War secret revealed

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/25/national/a072136S43.DTL&tsp=1

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 38 comments

Institutional memory and reverse smuggling

http://wrttn.in/04af1a

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask PG: 2012 Startup ideas you'd like to fund?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3391343

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders

http://500.co/2010/11/04/harsh-realities-from-500-startups-founders/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

The momentum of Steve Jobs

http://craigmod.com/satellite/steve_jobs_momentum/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 11 comments

Revisiting 2011 in 365 HN stories

http://rrrewind.com/assets/yearly/2010hn.html

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-regex-that-matches-prime-numbers/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11)

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ISO-updates-C-standard-1400814.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 35 comments

Donald Knuth on how he became good at math

http://www.webofstories.com/play/17068?o=MS

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 31 comments

Siege, a DBMS written in Haskell

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-December/097907.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

802.11 Packets in Packets: A Standard-Compliant Exploit of Layer 1

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4766.en.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

Why Rackspace oppose SOPA

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/12/24/why-rackspace-opposes-the-%E2%80%9Cstop-online-piracy-act%E2%80%9D/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect

http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/bulletproof_your_blog/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Donald Knuth's advice to young people

http://www.webofstories.com/play/17152?o=MS

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

A Textbook Buffer Overflow: A Look at the FreeBSD telnetd Code

http://thexploit.com/secdev/a-textbook-buffer-overflow-a-look-at-the-freebsd-telnetd-code/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/apple-and-samsungs-symbiotic-relationship

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

E-Books from NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Tests Cast Doubts on iPad and Kindle Restrictions

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/disruptions-tests-cast-doubt-on-fcc-rules-on-kindle-and-ipad-html/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: multicasting video chat site I built over xmas break

http://chat.io

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 20 comments

Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work?

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/could-the-rebellion-against-traditional-publishing-actually-work

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 46 comments

DefendTheInter.net: An illustrated guide on why the Internet needs saving.

http://defendtheinter.net/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/sports/before-athletic-recruiting-in-the-ivy-league-some-math.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments
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