top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-06

Great HN parody

http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/archive/issue_081.html

14 years ago

642 upvotes – 163 comments

Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/12/06/apple-will-invest-100-million-to-bring-mac-production-back-to-the-us-next-year-says-tim-cook/

14 years ago

448 upvotes – 184 comments

Something really scary is going on in Germany

http://martinweigert.com/something-really-scary-is-going-on-in-germany/

14 years ago

338 upvotes – 152 comments

DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

http://duckduckgo.com/tty/

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 100 comments

Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright reform memo

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/staffer-axed-by-republican-group-over-retracted-copyright-reform-memo/

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 187 comments

Most lives are lived by default

http://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-default/

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 133 comments

IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market

http://mergy.org/2012/12/irecognition-i-am-no-longer-apples-target-market/

14 years ago

249 upvotes – 233 comments

Bitcoin-Central.net is now licensed to operate as a bank in Europe

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129461.0

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 72 comments

Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/12/introducing-sauce-for-mac-the-easiest-way-to-launch-any-browser-right-from-your-mac/

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 64 comments

John McAfee arrested in Guatemala

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/us-belize-mcafee-arrest-idUSBRE8B504H20121206

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 109 comments

AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/ar-drone-that-infects-other-drones-with-virus-wins-dronegames#.UMD0EHJvf8o.hackernews

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 62 comments

Postgres 9.2 – The Database You Helped Build

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/12/6/postgres_92_now_available/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 40 comments

Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant

http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/37338222496/bye-mongodb-hello-cloudant

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 44 comments

Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-gets-green-light-to-sue-new-zealand-spies-121206/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 57 comments

Designing Presentations

http://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

xCharts - A D3-Based Library For Building Custom Charts and Graphs

http://tenxer.github.com/xcharts/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition to U.N. Internet governance

http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-now-totally-unified-in-opposition-of-u-n-internet-governance-7000008382/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 69 comments

Beginners Guide to Maths and Stats behind Web Analytics

http://www.seotakeaways.com/beginners-guide-maths-stats-web-analytics/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Seven manufacturers share $1.92 billion fine for 10 years of CRT price fixing

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/seven-manufacturers-share-1-92-billion-fine-for-10-years-of-crt-price-fixing-2012126/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Introduction to Databases

https://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013/preview/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies

http://gigaom.com/mobile/t-mobile-ceo-confirms-the-iphone-and-the-death-of-phone-subsidies/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 75 comments

Old People

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/12/05/old-people

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

"Smart and Gets Things Done" is necessary, but not sufficient

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/12/smart-and-gets-things-done-is-necessary-but-not-sufficient.md#smart-and-gets-things-done-is-necessary-but-not-sufficient

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
96 upvotes – 46 comments

~2M msgs/second messaging system written in Go

https://gist.github.com/4227635

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

RMS: Apple has tightest digital handcuffs in history

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/1949204/richard-stallman-apple-has-tightest-digital-handcuffs-in-history

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github

https://github.com/maxogden/gh-pages-template

14 years ago

★ 223 CSS
90 upvotes – 32 comments

The Root Kit

http://www.therootkit.com

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

Design Mistakes We Made in Our iPhone App

http://sixrevisions.com/mobile/design-mistakes-iphone-app/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Google+: Communities and photos

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-communities-and-photos.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Tim Cook confirms one line of Macs will be exclusively US-manufactured in 2013

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/tim-cook-us-built-macs/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

Tim Cook's Freshman Year

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-freshman-year-the-apple-ceo-speaks?a

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 70 comments

List of Seed Accelerator Programs and their results

http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Google should just shut up and buy T-Mobile

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/142205-why-google-should-just-shut-up-and-buy-t-mobile

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Fragile

http://ninjasandrobots.com/fragile

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

From Ruby to Haskell, Part 1: Testing

http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2012/12/from-ruby-to-haskell-part-1-testing

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Responsible Disclosure Can Be Anything But

http://daeken.com/responsible-disclosure-can-be-anything-but

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without pilots

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/12/black_hawk_flies_lands_and_avo.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

High-Voltage DC Breakthrough Could Boost Renewable Energy

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/12/121206-high-voltage-dc-breakthrough/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments

If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat?

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/2115238/if-tech-is-so-important-why-are-it-wages-flat

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 65 comments

Is this a good commit message?

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23105

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

SodaStream Economics

http://priceonomics.com/soda-makers/sodastream/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 66 comments

Scroogled, new campaign by Microsoft

http://www.scroogled.com/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 47 comments

Losers exist. Don’t hire them

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/05/losers-exist-dont-hire-them/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 67 comments

Gmail graduates 3 Labs features

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/06/gmail-graduates-3-labs-features-send-and-archive-default-reply-to-all-and-quote-selected-text/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

"Not Invented Here" Versus Developer Sanity

http://prog21.dadgum.com/158.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

SwiftKey Flow beta now open

http://swiftkey.net/flow/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments
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