top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-28

3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/nsvfc/33_million_emails_between_some_of_the_most/

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 137 comments

A man, a mop, a year, and an app

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/12/a-man-a-mop-a-year-and-an-app-joseph-hill-on-aeir-talk/

15 years ago

257 upvotes – 27 comments

Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 23 comments

Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ntsco/i_am_salman_khan_founder_of_khan_academyama/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 24 comments

6 month read-through/discussion of Gödel, Escher, Bach starting 1/17 on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/GEB/comments/nmy4p/starting_a_readthrough_january_17/

15 years ago

228 upvotes – 80 comments

Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student

http://pennyhacks.com/2011/12/28/stanford-free-classes-a-review-from-a-stanford-student/

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 102 comments

Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less

http://www.devttys0.com/2011/12/cracking-wpa-in-10-hours-or-less/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7202157/can-you-explain-why-10

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

The Coming War on General Purpose Computation

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html?utm_source=assburner

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

http://subpug.com/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 69 comments

Multiple programming languages vulnerable to DoS via hash algorithm collision

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 39 comments

Darts, Dice, and Coins: A beautiful article on a beautiful algorithm

http://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 13 comments

Its raining Haskell

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Simon-Peyton-Jones-and-John-Hughes-Its-Raining-Haskell

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 4 comments

One congressman's opposition to SOPA worth noting

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2011/12/one-congressmans-opposition-to-sopa-worth-noting.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

On (Startup) Chile

http://hervalicio.us/post/14915671294/on-startup-chile

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

Engineer wins $1.9 million in "wrongful hire" suit against Seagate.

http://www.hirecentrix.com/can-an-employer-wrongfully-hire-someone-case-highlights-potential-pitfalls-of-the-hiring-process.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

So You Want to Save the World

http://lesswrong.com/lw/91c/so_you_want_to_save_the_world/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

URI.js is a facility for working with URLs

http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Parse Powered iOS Table Views: Remote Data Driven Tables in Minutes

http://blog.parse.com/2011/12/28/parse-powered-ios-table-views/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Infographic examples, ca. 1920s

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/december/painting-by-numbers

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 145 comments

Photographers: Please Stop Using Flash

http://ohnozen.posterous.com/photographers-please-stop-making-flash-sites

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept)

http://blog.self.li/post/14864315302/qr-login

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/27/plentyoffish-update-6-billion-pageviews-and-32-billion-image.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript

http://www.sarajchipps.com/2011/12/there-is-no-such-thing-is-proprietary-client-side-javascript.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16306742

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Design Patterns in Python (Free Book)

http://dpip.testingperspective.com/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Ember.js Live Collections

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2011/12/27/emberjs-collections.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Clojure & Java Interop

http://blog.jayfields.com/2011/12/clojure-java-interop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jayfields%2FmjKQ+%28Jay+Fields%27+Thoughts%29

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Abstraction makes us stupid at business

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/12/abstraction-makes-us-stupid-at-business/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Merchant Says Amazon Sabotaged Its Business

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203391104577125000743279834.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

There's no such thing as Android, only Android-compatible

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/12/theres-no-such-thing-as-android-only-android-compatible.ars

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Time Machine for OSX Lion 10.7 using Debian 6.0 Squeeze

http://www.mikepalmer.net/build-a-netatalk-time-machine-for-osx-lion-using-debian-6-0-squeeze/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Geekli.st integrates with Github to let you publish achievements with your code

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/28/geekli-st-integrates-with-github-to-let-you-publish-achievements-with-your-code/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

One gene appears to regulate the brain’s ability to form new memories

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/hippocampus-memory-genes-1222.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments
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