top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-11

You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.

http://42floors.com/blog/youre-not-anonymous-i-know-your-name-email-and-company/

14 years ago

710 upvotes – 231 comments

You Are Naturally Short Housing

http://thezikomoletter.com/2012/12/10/you-are-naturally-short-housing/

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 202 comments

23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers

http://blog.23andme.com/news/one-million-strong-a-note-from-23andmes-anne-wojcicki/

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 236 comments

Welcome to a New Gist

https://github.com/blog/1276-welcome-to-a-new-gist

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 90 comments

Lorem Pixel

http://lorempixel.com/

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 51 comments

ITunes 11 and Colors

http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/12/itunes-11-and-colors/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 113 comments

Linux 3.7 released

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.7

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 114 comments

8-Bit Generation Documentary

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3800

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 27 comments

Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon

http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 95 comments

I'm 85 and I Learned To Code. You Should Too.

http://blog.codehs.com/post/37288742720/im-85-and-i-learned-to-code-you-should-too

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue

http://microsoft-news.com/apple-blocking-skydrive-from-ios-store-wants-cut-of-revenue/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 165 comments

How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171#c27

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 83 comments

Checklist for Creating a Landing Page

http://unbounce.com/landing-pages/checklist/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM

http://www.fullstackoptimization.com/box2d-jquery/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 39 comments

Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20121209/07431921317/psy-makes-81-million-ignoring-copyright-infringements-gangnam-style.shtml

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 100 comments

Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America"

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/12/netflix-says-google-fiber-is-most-consistently-fast-isp-in-america/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 51 comments

Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa

http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-disrupting-africa-much-faster-than-you-think-says-wikipedias-jimmy-wales/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 79 comments

Samba 4.0 released

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/4.0.0.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 72 comments

It will take a 'baby elephant' to knock over this bike [video]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9776325.stm

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript

https://github.com/sjkaliski/numbers.js

14 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript Apache-2.0
123 upvotes – 48 comments

Programmer behind YouPorn empire arrested in Belgium

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fverdacht-auf-steuerhinterziehung-youporn-chef-ist-festgenommen-worden-1.1546865

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 83 comments

Uses For A Message Queue

http://blog.iron.io/2012/12/top-10-uses-for-message-queue.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

The Making Of OpenERP

http://v6.openerp.com/node/1291

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 100 comments

Challenging Programming Exercises Published Weekly

http://programmingpraxis.com

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Unix Text Processing (1987)

http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 63 comments

Marketing hacks to boost your startup

http://www.slideshare.net/benmaxime/10-marketing-hacks-to-boost-your-startup-15573937/#

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

Surprises When Designing An iPhone App

http://jackg.org/iphone-design

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

ZenPayroll raises seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/11/zenpayroll-raises-ycs-largest-seed-round-from-the-mt-rushmore-of-valley-entrepreneurs/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes

http://stevepulec.com/freezegun/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

JavaScript PDP-1 emulator running the original code of “Spacewar!” from 1962

http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/index.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

FedEx Overcharged Customers for Years, Sealed E-Mail Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-11/fedex-overcharged-customers-for-years-sealed-e-mail-says.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released

http://wordpress.org/news/2012/12/elvin/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

http://ycorpblog.com/2012/12/11/introducing-the-new-yahoo-mail/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Lester's Time Has Come Today

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195088551/lesters-time-has-come-today

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Hull.io, an open platform for social apps

http://hull.io

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Why Lisp? 3 answers

http://www.mattknox.com/whylisp.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: the app that powers our order fulfillment warehouse

http://plusbryan.com/rocket

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: anyone else sick of startups for startups posted on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904648

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

The solitaire encryption algorithm (1999)

http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Homegrown Computer Science for Middle Schoolers

http://tessrinearson.com/blog/?p=607

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4905038

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested

http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/12/10/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-uw-researchers-say-idea-can-be-tested/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

Princeton’s nanomesh nearly triples solar cell efficiency

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/142962-princetons-nanomesh-nearly-triples-solar-cell-efficiency

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

SeatGeek Launches iPhone App

http://seatgeek.com/mobile

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Stanford MBA price tag hits $185K: Highest in the world

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/07/stanford-mba-price-tag-hits-185k-highest-in-the-world/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 76 comments

Build an iOS App in 10 Minutes with Heroku

http://mobile.heroku.com/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments
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