top 50% 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

Exploit Information Leaks in Random Numbers from Python, Ruby and PHP

https://spideroak.com/blog/20121205114003-exploit-information-leaks-in-random-numbers-from-python-ruby-and-php

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

New GitHub Status Site

https://github.com/blog/1240-new-status-site

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites

http://www.nature.com/news/city-birds-use-cigarette-butts-to-smoke-out-parasites-1.11952

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds

http://securityledger.com/new-25-gpu-monster-devours-passwords-in-seconds/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

The PLT Games - monthly programming language competition

http://www.pltgames.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 11 comments

Sir Tim Berners-Lee flags UN net conference concerns

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20594779

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

NASA releases stunning photos of Earth at night

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NightLights/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Foldify - print foldable 3D figures from iOS

http://foldifyapp.com

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Google Analytics for developers

http://blog.arkency.com/2012/12/google-analytics-for-developers/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Are You Doing Research?

http://extravagaria.com/wiki/pages/M7k9z7a/Are_You_Doing_Science.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Tweeting on behalf of users is bad

https://gist.github.com/4218760

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

NUI: style your iOS app with style sheets

https://github.com/tombenner/nui

14 years ago

★ 3.7k Objective-C MIT
85 upvotes – 28 comments

Network problems last Friday

https://github.com/blog/1346-network-problems-last-friday

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Rethinking Mobile First

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/rethinking-mobile-first.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/prismatic-gets-15m-from-jim-breyer-and-yuri-milner-to-attack-the-really-hard-problem-of-bringing-you-relevant-news/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 69 comments

NoSQL: The Love Child of Google, Amazon and ... Lotus Notes

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/couchdb/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Anti-Portfolio

http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio?goback=%2Egde_1682587_member_192655139

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Auto Insurance Comparison Startup Leaky Launches Nationally, Raises $670K

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/leaky-national-launch-seed-funding/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Stop building apps no one wants

http://launchsky.com

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 140 comments

Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/05/nsfw-apples-russian-itunes-launch-plagued-with-bug-displaying-escortpornography-sites/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Run a 5 Whys (with Humans, not Robots)

http://www.slideshare.net/danmil30/how-to-run-a-5-whys-with-humans-not-robots

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Kicksend (YC S11) partners with Target/CVS/Walgreens to launch "Print to Family"

http://blog.kicksend.com/kicksend-3-0-the-only-app-youll-need-to-keep-in-touch/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Why I Love Balanced

http://whit537.org/2012/12/why-i-love-balanced.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Stashboard and Pingdom Weren't Enough: The Evolution of a Status Page

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/status-page

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

11k Citi employees fired. Help get them hired in tech.

http://retrain-citi.thinkful.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 40 comments

Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/177429/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 73 comments

If Peter Thiel And Garry Kasparov Are Right, Then We're In Trouble

http://thestockmarketwatch.com/news/news.aspx?articleid=611106

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 72 comments

Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design

http://colly.com/comments/bauhaus_ideology_and_the_future_of_web_design/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Nasa to send new rover to Mars in 2020

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20603689

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 67 comments

Map: The most and least corrupt countries in the world

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/05/map-the-most-and-least-corrupt-countries-in-the-world/?tid=socialss

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

ttf.js - A JavaScript TrueType Font Engine For Modern Browsers And Node.js

https://github.com/ynakajima/ttf.js

14 years ago

★ 420 JavaScript
54 upvotes – 8 comments
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