top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-12-18

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/

14 years ago

502 upvotes – 201 comments

Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam

http://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-socially-engineered-replacement-order-scam/

14 years ago

478 upvotes – 143 comments

How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

http://wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/how-to-download-your-instagram-photos-and-kill-your-account/

14 years ago

389 upvotes – 146 comments

Instagram's official response

http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening

14 years ago

334 upvotes – 254 comments

Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy

https://plus.google.com/+WilWheaton/posts/3o79SJWv4kG

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 133 comments

Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 142 comments

How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update)

http://blog.lescapadou.com/2012/12/my-sales-experience-in-education-app.html?p=5

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 116 comments

Whose bug is this anyway?

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 42 comments

The New Firebase Security API

http://blog.firebase.com/post/38234264120/the-new-firebase-security-api

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 51 comments

Perl is 25 years old today

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 130 comments

The Real Silicon Valley

http://jfornear.co/the-real-silicon-valley/

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 148 comments

AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly

http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 85 comments

Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf]

http://some-docs.googlecode.com/files/Top%2010%20algorithms%20in%20data%20mining.pdf

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/12/07/rhino_poaching_google_pays_for_drones_to_fight_ivory_trade.html

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 83 comments

A Python Compiler for Big Data

http://continuum.io/blog/blaze

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 34 comments

W3C finalizes HTML5 specification

http://w3.org/News/2012#entry-9667

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 25 comments

Mozilla Game On

https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 34 comments

Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says German Privacy Regulator

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/facebook-users-must-be-allowed-to-use-pseudonyms-says-german-privacy-regulator-real-name-policy-erodes-online-freedoms/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 93 comments

How far has Microsoft fallen?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/tablets/21504/how-far-has-microsoft-fallen

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 150 comments

Philosophy of Computer Science

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments
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