top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-16

Thinking the unthinkable

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html

14 years ago

963 upvotes – 442 comments

How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour

http://24ways.org/2012/how-to-make-your-site-look-half-decent/

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 140 comments

I Don't Understand

http://bjk5.com/post/38101106878/i-dont-understand

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928762

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 80 comments

Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/13/national_counterterrorism_center_s_massive_new_surveillance_program_uncovered.html

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 198 comments

I am depressed and I need someone to talk to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928031

14 years ago

281 upvotes – 147 comments

What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea

http://www.pfinn.net/markets-not-ideas-for-bootstrappers-founders.html

14 years ago

280 upvotes – 54 comments

No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929997

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 108 comments

Tor trip report to an FBI conference

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-october-fbi-conference

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 53 comments

Data Visualization CourseWiki – CS 448B

https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 6 comments

SQL Indexing and Tuning e-Book

http://use-the-index-luke.com/l/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 11 comments

Tom Preston-Werner: Development of Jekyll to be revived in 2013

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/578#issuecomment-11414645

14 years ago

★ 51.3k Ruby MIT
119 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask PG: What Changed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926828

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 35 comments

Mapping with D3

http://eyeseast.github.com/visible-data/2012/12/14/mapping-with-d3/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

Root exploit on Exynos

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35469999#post35469999

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Instagram Testimony Doesn't Add Up

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/disruptions-instagram-testimony-doesnt-add-up-2/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 58 comments

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Option To Download Your Twitter Archive In One File

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/16/twitter-starts-rolling-out-option-to-download-your-twitter-archive-request-every-tweet-youve-ever-made-in-one-file/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

The myth of the well-rounded scientist

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_12_14/caredit.a1200137

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

The Haskell Cheatsheet

http://cheatsheet.codeslower.com/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU

https://github.com/wbsun/kgpu

14 years ago

★ 216 C
77 upvotes – 32 comments

A Tale of Two Bootstraps: Lessons Learned in Maintainable CSS

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/12/a-tale-of-two-bootstraps-lessons.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Programming Languages - Hammer Principle

http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

The Flickr API is a national treasure

http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/december/aNationalTreasure

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments
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