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

If you’re trying to hack/deface a website, don’t submit a pull request

https://github.com/CoderDojo/CoderDojo-Kata/pull/1/files

14 years ago

★ 16 PHP
484 upvotes – 107 comments

Thorium

http://rein.pk/thorium

14 years ago

345 upvotes – 110 comments

IPython gets $1.15M funding

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2012-December/010799.html

14 years ago

335 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted

http://segmentio.github.com/analytics.js/

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 67 comments

Any page loaded in IE can track your mouse movements anywhere

http://spider.io/blog/2012/12/internet-explorer-data-leakage/

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 161 comments

The hum that helps to fight crime

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 102 comments

IPv6 Attack Kills Mac OS X and makes Windows Server 2012 restart in Seconds

http://samsclass.info/ipv6/proj/RA_flood2.htm#1

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 53 comments

Kickstarter backers ready class action lawsuit against Code Hero dev

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-game-that-teaches-you-to-make-games-he/comments

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 193 comments

Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008)

http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/?hn

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 53 comments

Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac

http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/12/12/your-app-on-66-million-macs-c-sharp-on-mac/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 141 comments

Ravi Shankar dies at 92

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ravi-shankar-sitar-virtuoso-who-brought-indian-music-to-west-mentored-beatles-dies-at-92/2012/12/11/a05f1b48-4415-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 49 comments

Google Zeitgeist 2012

http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 61 comments

Gangnam Style in Pure CSS (Easter Egg by Google)

http://jsfiddle.net/Layke/7hjTC/show

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 27 comments

A Common Pricing Mistake

http://thinktraffic.net/most-common-pricing-mistake

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 40 comments

The Minimum Wage Machine

http://blakefallconroy.com/18.html

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 193 comments

386-DX/SX support nuked from Linux Kernel

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=743aa456c1834f76982af44e8b71d1a0b2a82e21

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 84 comments

Why founders shouldn't be the developers

http://www.zemanta.com/blog/why-founders-shouldnt-be-the-developers/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 93 comments

Tumblr just dropped out of DNS

https://www.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Book Translates American Minutiae for Russians

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/world/europe/book-gives-russians-close-up-of-american-minutiae.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 98 comments

Letter to TEDx India Licensees

http://pastebin.com/v9wHUWrh

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript

http://syzygy.st/javascript-coroutines/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 44 comments

Python 3 "Wall of Shame" Becomes "Wall of Superpowers" Today

http://python3wos.appspot.com/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 174 comments

CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cdnjs-the-fastest-javascript-repo-on-the-web

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 44 comments

Goodbye, Uploads

https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Designing Web Applications

http://nathanbarry.com/webapps/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 110 comments

Urbanization of Dubai

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/dubai.php

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film About the Singularity

http://betabeat.com/2012/12/christopher-nolan-johnny-depp-transcendance-supercomputer-movie/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 108 comments

Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/flickr-has-the-opportunity-to-become-the-next-flickr/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Crowdtilt announces the first Crowdfunding API

https://github.com/Crowdtilt/crowdtilt-api-spec

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Github Ruby Styleguide

https://github.com/styleguide/ruby

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

How to Hack and Not Get Caught

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2012/12/how-to-hack-and-not-get-caught.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Why I’m Quitting My Job and Leaving San Francisco

http://future-bits.com/quitting-and-leaving

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 84 comments

My master plan for revolutionizing the future of publishing

http://www.marco.org/2012/12/12/the-magazine-future-of-publishing

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Optimization at the Obama campaign: a/b testing

http://kylerush.net/blog/optimization-at-the-obama-campaign-ab-testing/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

REBOL 3 Source Code Released

http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0519

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

New tool for secret agents and the rest of us

http://www.caltech.edu/content/new-tool-secret-agents-and-rest-us

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Faster Rails partial rendering and caching. 78% improvement of test application

http://ninjasandrobots.com/rails-faster-partial-rendering-and-caching/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Prof. calls out student for cheating via Math StackExchange

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/256816/if-n-the-order-of-a-group-and-gcdk-n-1-then-there-exists-an-element-in?__=650705013#comment562583_256816

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 125 comments

Tranquil is a programming language built on top of LLVM & the Obj-C Runtime

https://github.com/fjolnir/Tranquil#hn

14 years ago

★ 322 Objective-C++
75 upvotes – 28 comments

Anatomy of a knockout

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anatomy-of-a-knockout/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Android Overtakes Apple in Australia

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/android-overtakes-apple-in-australia-20121212-2b8q2.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing)

http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/its-the-little-things-that-matter-or-how-goog

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: SQL to Mongo Query Translator

http://www.querymongo.com/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen laptops and tablets

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143102-ge-develops-ultra-thin-almost-silent-cooler-for-next-gen-laptops-and-tablets

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Vector vengeance: Researchers claim they can kill the pixel within five years

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143130-vector-vengeance-british-researchers-claim-they-can-kill-the-pixel-within-five-years

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: An app for middle school students, made by a middle school student.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/idms-student/id535975567

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

Exoplanets in Pictures

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astronomy/2012/11/exoplanet_pictures_astronomers_have_photos_of_alien_planets.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments
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