top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-15

Building my Own Laptop

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686

14 years ago

354 upvotes – 89 comments

PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

http://powwow.cc/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 72 comments

Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/white_tiger_controversy_zoos_shouldn_t_raise_these_inbred_ecologically_irrelevant.html

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 78 comments

Things I wish someone had told me about life after college

http://zackshapiro.com/post/22010015010/9-things-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-about-life-after

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 131 comments

Web Revenue Models

https://hackpad.com/EgXuEtSibE7#Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-%28final%29

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 22 comments

Valve boss says living room Steam PCs coming with Linux support

http://www.shacknews.com/article/76984/valve-boss-says-living-room-steam-pcs-linux-support

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 45 comments

Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/simon-beck-snow-art

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 25 comments

Online collaborative LaTeX editor

https://www.writelatex.com/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 69 comments

Wikipedia (English) starting to migrate to MariaDB

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/064994.html

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 36 comments

The Power of Concentration

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinion/sunday/the-power-of-concentration.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

Combinator Recipes for Working With Objects in JavaScript

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/12/combinators_1.md#combinator-recipes-for-working-with-objects-in-javascript-part-i

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
104 upvotes – 28 comments

What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/14/whats-facebooks-responsibility-when-the-nation-seeks-to-lynch-someone-on-only-a-name/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

Pick Your Battles

http://zef.me/4235/pick-your-battles?

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near (2011)

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425733/paul-allen-the-singularity-isnt-near/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/2012/12/14/when-you-fall-into-a-black-hole-how-long-have-you-got/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 96 comments

Your Very First Microprocessor

http://gibiansky.com/2012/12/your-very-first-microprocessor.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/14/alan_turing_pardon_hawking/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

The Symmetry of My UnAmerican McCarthyist Cancer (the GPL)

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/14/unamerican-mccarthyist-cancer.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

How do we tell truths that might hurt? (E. Dijkstra, 1975)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

Eric Schmidt And Stephen Colbert Talk Politics

http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/12/15/eric-schmidt-and-stephen-colbert-talk-politics-google-vs-amazon-and-the-strange-allure-of-failure-video/?icid=tc_home_art&

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Realtime statistics of Haskell programs

http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2012-12-11-24-day-of-hackage-ekg.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Meet the World’s Cheapest Venture Capitalist

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/worlds-cheapest-venture-capitalist/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

The 2012 Perl 6 Coding Contest

http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/the-2012-perl-6-coding-contest

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments
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