top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-12-05

Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit

http://redeye.firstround.com/2012/12/why-first-round-capital-funded-a-lawsuit.html

14 years ago

449 upvotes – 140 comments

Try R — A new online course, for free

http://oreilly.com/go/tryr/

14 years ago

391 upvotes – 125 comments

'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower

http://rt.com/usa/news/surveillance-spying-e-mail-citizens-178/

14 years ago

378 upvotes – 202 comments

Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-04/tesla-was-cash-flow-positive-last-week-ceo-musk-says.html

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 234 comments

You can now create files on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1327-creating-files-on-github

14 years ago

335 upvotes – 86 comments

Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 81 comments

How To Accept Bitcoin On Your Website

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/37274999622/how-to-accept-bitcoin-on-your-website

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 73 comments

On Heroku and 2012

http://kennethreitz.org/on-heroku-and-2012.html

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 49 comments

A new era begins for Haskell

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-December/105041.html

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 23 comments

Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/portals-physics-engine-rebuilt-in-50kb-on-a-graphing-calculator/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 49 comments

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/157645-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-academia/fulltext

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 88 comments

So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)

https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 128 comments

One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/One-reason-gmail-ios-still-sucks.html

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching

http://visimojo.com/survey/builder

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

http://littlesparkvt.com/flatstrap/index.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 79 comments

Git Tips And Workflows

http://durdn.com/blog/2012/12/05/git-12-curated-git-tips-and-workflows/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments

Foreign Language Learning Hacks

http://www.thangudu.com/post/37252447326/language-hacks

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2012/12/intellij-idea-12-is-available-for-download/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 121 comments

Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/04/top_25_app_devs_earn_half_of_revenue/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 74 comments

AWS SDK for Node.js (Preview)

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/aws-sdk-for-nodejs-now-available-in-preview-form.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments
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