top 50% 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

2012: The year Rubyists learned to stop worrying and love threads

http://tonyarcieri.com/2012-the-year-rubyists-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-threads

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Finding and Fixing a Five Second Stall

http://the-witness.net/news/2012/12/finding-and-fixing-a-five-second-stall/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20766682

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 115 comments

GitHub Game Off Winners

https://github.com/blog/1337-github-game-off-winners

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

A programmer’s guide to big data: tools to know

http://gigaom.com/data/a-programmers-guide-to-big-data-12-tools-to-know/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Report: data caps just a “cash cow” for Internet providers

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/12/report-data-caps-just-a-cash-cow-for-internet-providers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

Deploying New Image Formats on the Web

http://www.igvita.com/2012/12/18/deploying-new-image-formats-on-the-web/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

JQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide

http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/why-you-should-want-to-pay-for-software-instagram-edition/266367/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments

Analyzing Big Data With Twitter

http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-abdt-s12/2012/12/13/uc-berkeley-course-lectures-analyzing-big-data-with-twitter/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

Using Scala to handle exponential growth at a startup

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2012/12/18/using-scala-exponential-growth-at-a-startup/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 46 comments

Put Chubby Models on a Diet with Concerns

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3372-put-chubby-models-on-a-diet-with-concerns

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

TSA to Commission Independent Study of X-Ray Body Scanners

http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-to-commission-independent-study-of-xray-body-scanners

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 57 comments

The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

First Volt owner has driven 12K miles in 2 years, burned 26 gallons of gas

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/first-chevy-volt-owner-usa-has-driven-12000-miles-2-years-burned-26-gallons-gasoline.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development

http://nsscreencast.com

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Cloud Postgres (Beta)—PostgreSQL Clustering in the Clouds Made Simple

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1435/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments
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