top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-07

Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-for-businesses.html

14 years ago

626 upvotes – 455 comments

Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/07/dropbox-guido-van-rossum-python/

14 years ago

586 upvotes – 207 comments

Welcome Guido

https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcome-guido/

14 years ago

347 upvotes – 44 comments

Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 204 comments

Larry Page "providing free flu shots to all San Francisco bay area kids"

https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/32xY3Z1zckL

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 231 comments

Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 161 comments

GitHub now has Issue Attachments

https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 72 comments

A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science

http://blog.tedx.com/post/37405280671/a-letter-to-the-tedx-community-on-tedx-and-bad-science

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 153 comments

Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-droidrage-twitter-campaign-goes-painfully-wrong-7000008450/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

Let's make GitHub better, together

http://letsmake.github.com/bettertogether/#

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 144 comments

Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/282006

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 98 comments

Google+ Is Growing at Facebook Speed

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/google-grows-like-facebook/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 127 comments

Dogs learn to drive in New Zealand

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/06/watch-dogs-learn-to-drive-in-new-zealand/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

Bootleg.css - Twitter Bootstrap JS redone with CSS

http://labs.thecssninja.com/bootleg/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 13 comments

The Node Beginner Book

http://www.nodebeginner.org/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 13 comments

Mercedes’ Next Flagship Does the Commuting for You

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/12/mercedes-benz-s-class-tech/?pid=2527&viewall=true

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: UXArchive - How the best iPhone apps handle userflows

http://uxarchive.com/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 35 comments

Introducing the Predictive Interface

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/12/what-are-you-going-to-do-next-introducing-the-predictive-interface/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

A young person's guide to quitting your day job

http://arbor.posterous.com/i-quit-my-high-paying-job-what-now

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 65 comments

How to get free single-user Google Apps accounts

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/pVZfdeky-ow/TO1SmipM2Y0J

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Recreating Lamborghini V10 engine sound with beer can

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/06/guy-puts-crazy-effort-into-recreating-lamborghini-v10-engine-sou/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Using Outlook.com with your own Web Domain

http://www.labnol.org/internet/setup-outlook-on-custom-domain/24699/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Requires Proof of Google+ Activity to Attend SFPD's Bike Theft Workshop

http://sfappeal.com/news/2012/12/google-adds-bizarre-requirement-for-sfpds-bike-theft-workshop-attendees.php

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

Android Won. Windows Lost

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/12/android-won-windows-lost-now-what-the-battle-of-the-century-is-decided-microsoft-relegated-to-ever-s.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 113 comments

Netflix CEO Hastings faces SEC action over Facebook post

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-06/netflix-ceo-hastings-faces-sec-action-over-facebook-post

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Hacker News Google+ Community

https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Guido says goodbye to Google

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212051037621986145/posts/hNV7PxgFg2J

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for the iPad

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/id515114051?mt=8

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 47 comments

NameCheap is More Popular Than GoDaddy Among HackerNews Users

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/blog/28-namecheap-is-the-most-popular-registrar-for-hackernews-users

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

WhatsApp Hack

http://198.61.222.60/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

http://snag.gy

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain

http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/the-unofficial-guide-to-rich-hickeys-brain/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

The Ascent of the Patent Troll and the Devastating Consequences for Innovation

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/12/05/the-meteoric-ascent-of-the-patent-troll-and-the-devastating-consequences-for-innovation/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple's 'Steve Jobs Patent' on the iPhone

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/07/u-s-patent-office-preliminarily-invalidates-apples-steve-jobs-patent-on-the-iphone/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Bitcoin Central Licensed as Bank

http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-central-licensed-as-bank/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

SpaceX Awarded Two EELV-Class Missions from the United States Air Force

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20121205

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Launch Early, Launch Simple, and Test

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2012/12/06/launch-early-launch-simple-and-test/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Google+ community for HTML5, CSS, JS

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103299867207875326585

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Why math is painful to read

http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/2012/12/2/math-explained/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 104 comments

Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-their-donated-tablets-in-just-five-months

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

24-bit color sucks

http://tiamat.tsotech.com/24-bit-color-sucks

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 89 comments

Wii U's restrictive DRM is a baffling throwback

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/12/wii-us-restrictive-drm-is-a-baffling-throwback/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

jQRangeSlider - Slider For Selecting Value Ranges, Supporting Dates & More

http://ghusse.github.com/jQRangeSlider/index.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

How sound works on Google’s Project Glass

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-sound-works-on-googles-project-glass-2012127/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Think first, code later

http://24ways.org/2012/think-first-code-later/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Co-Founders: They're A Wonderful Thing. Indulge at Your Own Risk.

http://mattmireles.com/co-founders/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

Seattle police will not enforce against public marijuana use, only warn verbally

http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2012/12/05/officers-shall-not-take-any-enforcement-action-other-than-to-issue-a-verbal-warning-for-a-violation-of-i-502/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 61 comments

Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/37411481044/peter-thiel-on-the-future-of-legal-technology-notes

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 47 comments

Governments 'too inefficient' for future Moon landings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20540172

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments
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