top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-19

Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapans/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT.html

14 years ago

549 upvotes – 165 comments

Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook

http://www.fbpurity.com/news/important-news-facebooks-legal-team-have-told-me-i-am-banned-from-facebook-because-of-f-b-purity/

14 years ago

375 upvotes – 193 comments

Interactive Guide to Blog Typography

http://kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/

14 years ago

299 upvotes – 45 comments

EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-half-million-dollar-boost-mark-cuban-and-notch

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 66 comments

The economic return of Iceland has proved that the joke was on Ireland

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/dan-white-the-economic-return-of-iceland-has-proved-that-the-joke-was-on-us-3327164.html?ftcamp=crm/email/20121219/nbe/AlphavilleHongKong/product

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 205 comments

Migrate Your Instagram Photos to Flickr in One Click.

http://freethephotos.com

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 59 comments

Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/wiki/Upcoming-3.0-changes

14 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT
219 upvotes – 145 comments

Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/us/since-recession-more-young-americans-are-homeless.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 231 comments

How do we read code?

http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2012/12/18/how-do-we-read-code/

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks

https://stripe.com/blog/a-pricing-update

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 81 comments

QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia

http://digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-launches-Qt-5-cross-platform-application-development-and-UI-framework/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 96 comments

Mark Zuckerberg donates $500 million

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/18/mark-zuckerberg-donation/?hpt=hp_t3

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 140 comments

Moonbase: A plug and play engine for making web animations

http://moonbase.com/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 39 comments

Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/spider-building-spider/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000

https://archive.org/donate/?n=hn

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 22 comments

The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2012/12/19/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-masterclass-in-why-hfr-fails-and-a-reaffirmation-of-what-makes-cinema-magical/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 141 comments

Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more)

http://www.humblebundle.com/#7

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej2012153a.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 129 comments

Thinking of starting a Health IT company? Here are top three industry challenges

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/19/thinking-of-starting-a-health-it-company-here-are-the-top-three-industry-challenges/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 110 comments

How I Created a Matrix Bullet Time-Style Rig With 50 DSLRs

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/19/how-i-created-a-matrix-bullet-time-style-rig-with-50-dslrs/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 54 comments

Censorship Lift for “V for Vendetta” Shocks China

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/18/censorship-lift-for-v-for-vendetta-shocks-china/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Why have I failed?

http://blog.bahadir.io/posts/failed-entrepreneur.html

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

The Octoverse in 2012

https://github.com/blog/1359-the-octoverse-in-2012

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 15 comments

Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/19/dropbox-acquires-snapjoy-and-puts-photos-into-its-focus/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

The TSA's True Focus Isn't Safety - It's Self-Preservation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121217/17563321412/tsas-true-focus-isnt-safety-its-self-preservation.shtml

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 118 comments

Programming Your Culture

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/12/18/programming-your-culture/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

AngelList New Feature: Invest Online

https://angel.co/invest

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows

http://browserfame.com/1033/firefox-h264-codec-windows

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase

http://firefeed.io

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

The Sorry State of Native App Typography Licensing

http://gazit.me/2012/12/19/mobile-app-typography.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Santa Tracker

http://www.google.com/santatracker

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Twitter Suspends Anonymous’ Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews

http://betabeat.com/2012/12/twitter-suspends-anonymous-most-popular-account-youranonnews/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

The impoliteness of overriding methods

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2012/12/19/the-impoliteness-of-overriding-methods/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Firefox OS challenges the closed mobile ecosystems

http://comoyo.github.com/blog/2012/12/18/Firefox-OS-challenges-the-closed-mobile-ecosystems/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

USPTO invalidates key Apple patent used against Samsung

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57560112-37/uspto-invalidates-key-apple-patent-used-against-samsung/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Knowledge workers are bad at working – and what to do about it

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Dropbox deployment for front-end devs

https://blog.backlift.com/entry/dropbox-integration

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25585/is-my-developers-home-brew-password-security-right-or-wrong-and-why

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built

https://www.coursecraft.net

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-shuts-down-pirate-bay-proxy-after-legal-threats-121219/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

How We Achieved a .50s Page Load

http://blog.netdna.com/maxcdn/the-new-maxcdn-built-for-design-speed/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Gittip Anyone on Twitter

http://blog.gittip.com/post/38264311698/gittip-anyone-on-twitter

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Things Bosses Wish They Could Tell Employees

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121205140005-20017018-10-things-bosses-wish-they-could-tell-employees

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 42 comments
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