top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-09

How would I get started?

http://hackertourism.com/post/37555787943/how-would-i-get-started

14 years ago

561 upvotes – 141 comments

Everything is my fault

http://sivers.org/my-fault

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 103 comments

I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/web-scraping/

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 172 comments

Better Rails errors

https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors

14 years ago

★ 6.8k Ruby MIT
252 upvotes – 48 comments

160 Mac Minis, One Rack

http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 117 comments

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy

http://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 72 comments

1983 Radio Shack Catalog

http://archive.org/stream/radio-shack-catalog-rsc-09-computer-catalog-1983/radio_shack_catalog_rsc-09_computer_catalog.1983#page/n0/mode/2up

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 105 comments

The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 118 comments

The Most Dangerous Equation [pdf]

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 48 comments

Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 29 comments

The End: NZBMatrix closes

http://nzbmatrix.com/the_end.html

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 128 comments

Better Python APIs

http://ozkatz.github.com/better-python-apis.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Did YC accept anyone without an idea this round?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4896009

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 17 comments

Ingress

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/12/08/Ingress

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/valve_confirms_they_are_working_steam_box123

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

California School District Owes $1 Billion On $100 Million Loan

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166745290/school-district-owes-1-billion-on-100-million-loan

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

Forcing the CPU affinity can make a monothreaded process run 2-3x faster

http://klaig.blogspot.com/2012/12/forcing-cpu-affinity-can-make.html

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

Bootstrap 2.2.2 is out

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/08/bootstrap-2-2-2-released/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

Building a Keyboard: Part 2

http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-2.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-released-from-solitary-confinement-121209/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

Building a Keyboard

http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-1.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

iOS port of $1 Gesture Recognizer

http://blog.chrismiles.info/2012/12/introducing-cmunistrokegesturerecognizer.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

The Raspberry Pi web server speed test

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/programming/raspberry-pi-web-server-comparison/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Motivating posters for your startup

http://startupvitamins.com

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

The Rise of the Secret Supper Club

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/03/121203fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

USC doctoral student unravels ‘tin whisker’ mystery

http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5371#.UMQOcOTAdnE

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: I want to build a cable company. How would I get started?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893776

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4896020

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Killed by Homeopathy

http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/killed-by-homeopathy/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 180 comments

The New University Of California Logo Needs To Die A Quick, Painful Death

http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2012/12/8/3742854/uc-logo-kill-it-with-fire

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Amateurs beat specialists in data-prediction competitions

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/12/kaggle_president_jeremy_howard_amateurs_beat_specialists_in_data_prediction.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments
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