top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-14

The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

http://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm

14 years ago

486 upvotes – 171 comments

Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk

http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2012/12/14/dear-open-source-project-leader-quit-being-a-jerk/

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 180 comments

Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light

http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_roemer.html

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 68 comments

Want to learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code

http://www.shockoe.com/blog/typingcodeout/

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 178 comments

Ray Kurzweil joins Google

http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-projects-involving-machine-learning-and-language-processing?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

312 upvotes – 163 comments

Brython - Python to Javascript translator

http://www.brython.info/index_en.html

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 68 comments

EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/congress-poised-reauthorize-fisa-amendment-act-warrantless-spying-bill

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 42 comments

Moravec's paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=135937

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 150 comments

Tcl the misunderstood (2006)

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html?

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 108 comments

Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2012/12/stunning-news-website-fundraising.html#

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 24 comments

Why we still love board games

http://timharford.com/2010/07/why-we-still-love-board-games/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 135 comments

Working alone sucks

http://fleetadmiral.tumblr.com/post/37907736486/working-alone-sucks

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 112 comments

Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143382-programmer-creates-800000-books-algorithmically-starts-selling-them-on-amazon?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=programmer-creates-800000-books-algorithmically-starts-selling-them-on-amazon

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 138 comments

A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

http://www.danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Why We’re Building Collections

http://blog.collections.me/post/37870399216/our-vision

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 85 comments

Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows

http://blog.alfredapp.com/2012/12/14/v2-sneak-peek-workflows/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 18 comments

Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/13/guardian-kills-its-facebook-social-reader-regains-control-over-its-content/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

A Bad UI Pattern

http://www.kapilkale.com/blog/the-worst-ui-pattern-in-existence/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 322 comments

Web Discussions: Flat by Design

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-flat-by-design.html

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 84 comments

Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books

http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Stripe adds two-factor auth

https://stripe.com/blog/two-step-verification

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old

http://www.launchside.com/blog/tech-trends-ive-noticed-as-a-16-year-old/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 67 comments

Google launches 18 new Google+ features

http://gplusproject.appspot.com/tis-the-season-for-shipping

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

US, Canada, Australia and UK refuse to sign UN's communications treaty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20717774

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

How 5 years of reading HN enabled me to build the website for my business

http://czstrong.com/how-5-years-of-reading-hacker-news-enabled-me-to-build-the-website-for-my-business/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Gary McKinnon will not face UK charges

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20730627

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Have Scientists Found Two Different Higgs Bosons?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/14/have-scientists-found-two-different-higgs-bosons/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Introducing KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy

http://jamiealexandre.com/blog/2012/12/12/ka-lite-offline-khan-academy/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments

The open-source "svblte like" blogging platform

http://simvla.net

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application

http://redeye.firstround.com/2012/12/commonapplication.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/12/consider-not-setting-goals-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

New Dropbox for iOS

https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/12/super-new-dropbox-for-ios/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

http://blog.brackets.io/2012/12/10/getting-started-with-brackets-video

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 87 comments

Gmail now refusing to fetch using self-signed certs

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21291&ctx=gmail#strictSSL

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20722581

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 40 comments

Linode increases storage by 20%

http://blog.linode.com/2012/12/14/storage-increased-by-20/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Escher.py - Key/value db with its data

https://gist.github.com/4280027

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

The Blame Game

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/12/14/blame-game

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments

Valve opening an office in SF

http://www.valvetime.net/threads/valves-opening-an-office-in-san-francisco.242933/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Everyone Should Make a Painting

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3362-everyone-should-make-a-painting

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

KA Lite: Bringing Education To Those Who Need It Most

http://thisisyourbrainonblogs.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/ka-lite-bringing-education-to-those-who-need-it-most/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/lottery-winner-jack-whittakers-losing-ticket

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

How to bring down mission-critical GPS networks with $2,500

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-to-bring-down-mission-critical-gps-networks-with-2500/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Auto-Threading Is Actually About Mutability And Safety

http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2284&doc_id=256017&f_src=developinthecloud_sitedefault

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 28 comments

KA Lite: Khan Academy for the 70% of the world without an Internet connection

http://dylanbarth.com/kalite

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 3 comments
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