top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-31

Stop whining and start hiring remote workers

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3064-stop-whining-and-start-hiring-remote-workers

15 years ago

481 upvotes – 234 comments

Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/30/apple_design_chief_jonathan_ive_awarded_knighthood.html

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 111 comments

Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation

http://lwn.net/Articles/473794/

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 53 comments

Happy New Year!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3411501

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57350464-245/facebook-hands-out-white-hat-debit-cards-to-hackers/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Sony, Nintendo, EA hide behind PR move. Still support SOPA

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-nintendo-sony-reduce-sopa-support-by-50--218742.phtml

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 23 comments

The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/12/31/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2011/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments

Full color laser TV

http://hackaday.com/2011/12/31/full-color-laser-tv/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?

http://gettingsmart.com/blog/2011/12/why-don%E2%80%99t-we-value-spatial-intelligence/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS app store

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852638998/vector-tanks-3

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Let's update the HN circle on Google Plus (the proper way)

http://hngp.axxim.net/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Fundamental texts for serious web engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410433

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011

http://blog.leahculver.com/2011/12/living-in-the-cloud-my-2011-new-years-resolution.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Maciej Fijalkowski's view on PyPy's future

http://lostinjit.blogspot.com/2011/12/personal-view-on-pypys-future.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

MongoDB's Write Lock

http://blog.pythonisito.com/2011/12/mongodbs-write-lock.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 73 comments

Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)

http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0025-watterson.htm

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

$87 M. News Corp. Backed Startup Shuts Down Before Launch

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/31/to-oblivion-and-beyond-wait-no-just-oblivion-87-m-news-corp-backed-startup-shuts-down-before-launch/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Perl 6 in 2011 - A Retrospection

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/perl-6-in-2011.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

Complete Google App Engine + Backbone.js + Require.js Todo list Web App Example

https://github.com/ronreiter/webapp-boilerplate

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I

http://drdobbs.com/parallel/232300699

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/retailers-are-losing-the-software-talent-wars-12012011.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 88 comments

Reverse engineering uC firmware from audio signals

http://gravitronic.blogspot.com/2011/12/decoding-korg-monotribe-firmware.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

K-Means Clustering and Art

http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2011/12/k-means-clustering-and-art.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Driving has lost its cool for young Americans

http://www.grist.org/transportation/2011-12-27-driving-has-lost-its-cool-for-young-americans?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gristacct

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 118 comments

'Reputational' Media—Where Yelp Has an Edge Over AirBnB, VRBO, etc.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/reputational-media-where-yelp-has-an-edge-over-airbnb-vrbo-etc/250574/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

IBNIZ - A hardcore audiovisual VM

http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/12/ibniz-hardcore-audiovisual-virtual.html?m=1

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler

http://blog.phusion.nl/2011/12/30/xcode-4-ships-a-buggy-compiler/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 65 comments

Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus

http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/index.htm

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

WebGL Meincraft

http://dev.pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/webglmc?hn

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

Obama Discreetly Signs NDAA on New Year's Eve

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/us/politics/obama-signs-military-spending-bill.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments
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