top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-17

The Gift

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gift.html

14 years ago

Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"

http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/holidaystats/

14 years ago

Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0

http://kennethreitz.org/announcing-requests-v100.html

14 years ago

Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville

http://erniemiller.org/2012/12/15/why-i-love-being-a-programmer-in-louisville-or-why-i-wont-relocate-to-work-for-your-startup/

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Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5

http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-love-story

14 years ago

Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor

http://scratchpad.io

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Doing Game Gravity Right

http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~hkankaan/Homepages/gravity.html

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Why 256 bit keys are large enough

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25375/why-not-use-larger-cipher-keys

14 years ago

Indiana Jones journal mystery solved

http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/38161122385/mischief-managed-for-those-of-you-who-have

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List of data science and machine learning resources

http://conductrics.com/data-science-resources/

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The Lambda Calculus

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lambda-calculus/

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Humble Beginnings

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/humble-beginnings

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How to start with Backbone.js: A simple skeleton app

http://codeartists.com/post/38153430040/how-to-start-with-backbone-js-a-simple-skeleton-app

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Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30.html?v=1

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Why I learned to "make things"

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3370-why-i-learned-to-make-things

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The Fast Fourier Transform

http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/the-fast-fourier-transform/

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Andreessen and Mixpanel Call for an End to “Bullshit Metrics”

http://allthingsd.com/20121217/andreessen-and-mixpanel-call-for-an-end-to-bullshit-metrics/

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Modern math solves Ramanujan’s ‘vision’ - may clarify black holes

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/modern-math-solves-ramanujan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98vision%E2%80%99/

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The Gift of Death

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/

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Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/speeding-up-http-with-minimal-protocol.html

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Blekko donates search data to Common Crawl

http://blog.blekko.com/2012/12/17/common-crawl-donation/

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The Internet Archive is trying to raise funds to buy 3 petabytes of storage

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/16/the-internet-archive-is-trying-to-raise-enough-funds-to-buy-3-petabytes-of-storage-in-17-days/

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The Flat Design Aesthetic

http://speckyboy.com/2012/12/11/the-flat-design-aesthetic/

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Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social'

http://www.wifis.org/

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Raspberry Pi Foundation launches the Raspberry Pi Store

http://store.raspberrypi.com/

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"Gun" "Control"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/16/gun-control/

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Adafruit CEO Limor Fried named Entrepreneur magazine Entrepreneur of 2012

http://instagram.com/p/TWVkW-Jbtt/

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I am Facebook friends with Ryan Lanza

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/i_am_facebook_friends_with_ryan_lanza/

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Linux terminal keylogger in userspace

http://average-coder.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/linux-terminal-keylogger.html

14 years ago

Passing the torch of NumPy and moving on to Blaze

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.ca/2012/12/passing-torch-of-numpy-and-moving-on-to.html

14 years ago

Interactive D3 tutorial

http://vogievetsky.github.com/IntroD3

14 years ago

Samsung Phones: Every app has full memory access

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2048511

14 years ago

Show HN: Teelaunch Prints & Ships Your Kickstarter & Indiegogo T-Shirt Rewards

https://teelaunch.com

14 years ago

Mass Shootings, Political Correctness, and Magical Thinking

http://diegobasch.com/mass-shootings-political-correctness-and-magical-thinking

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Manufacturing a Renaissance with 3D Printing

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/12/manufacturing-renaissance-with-3d.html

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Those "stupid ideas" may not be so stupid

http://shadyacres.tumblr.com/post/37841861568/on-the-breadth-of-the-human-psyche

14 years ago

Blimp: project management for doers

http://elweb.co/stuff/blimp-project-management-for-doers/

14 years ago

BBC Micro on an FPGA

http://www.mikestirling.co.uk/bbc-micro-on-an-fpga/

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The Future of Ruby

http://nathany.com/ruby-design

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A 12-year-old bug in JDK, still out there leaking memory

http://plumbr.eu/blog/12-year-old-bug-in-jdk-still-out-there-leaking-memory

14 years ago

Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains”

http://thecodingbrain.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/evidence-suggesting-that-young-computer-programmers-have-bilingual-brains/

14 years ago

Identifying IP address of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China

https://github.com/mothran/mongol

14 years ago

FundersClub (YC S12) advances online investing with first closed fund

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/17/fundersclub-advances-online-investing-to-next-level-with-first-closed-fund/

14 years ago

Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

http://enterprisewiki.co

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Darpa begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143455-darpa-begins-work-on-100gbps-wireless-tech-with-120-mile-range?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darpa-begins-work-on-100gbps-wireless-tech-with-120-mile-range

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Amazon, Advertising's Sleeping Giant, to Awaken in 2013

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/amazon-advertisings-sleeping-giant-awaken-2013-145964

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