top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-12-20

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

14 years ago

525 upvotes – 137 comments

The Basement

http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement

14 years ago

486 upvotes – 36 comments

JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 380 comments

When I first heard the name "Safari"

http://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari/

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 177 comments

MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143782-mit-discovers-a-new-state-of-matter-a-new-kind-of-magnetism

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 51 comments

PlainSite Exposes 2,000 Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies

http://www.plainsite.org/articles/article.html?id=2

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 86 comments

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 193 comments

Engineering Pornography (2002)

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 77 comments

Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption

http://mathbabe.org/2012/12/20/nate-silver-confuses-cause-and-effect-ends-up-defending-corruption/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

Wikipedia doesn't need your money

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 154 comments

Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949556

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 127 comments

Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way

http://priceonomics.com/rice-cookers/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 208 comments

An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 25 comments

Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

http://addepar.github.com/ember-table/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 49 comments

RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-13-release/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple kills a Kickstarter project

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/20/apple-kills-a-kickstarter-project-portable-power-project-pop-refunding-139170-to-backers

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 194 comments

Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours

https://www.draw.io/about.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 63 comments

Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror

http://www.techfragments.com/1774/inventions-non-reverse-mirror/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 78 comments

Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcalls, and more)

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 39 comments
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