top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-21

What does randomness look like?

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/12/21/what-does-randomness-look-like/

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 117 comments

xkcd: Instagram

http://xkcd.com/1150/

14 years ago

332 upvotes – 124 comments

Verizon Is Blocking Google Wallet Anti-Competitively

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Its-Clear-Verizon-Is-Blocking-Google-Wallet-AntiCompetitively-122513

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 82 comments

A $5 Lamp Powered Solely by Gravity

http://enpundit.com/a-5-lamp-powered-solely-by-gravity/

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 88 comments

IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121220/02365821447/intellectual-ventures-dont-mind-our-2000-shell-companies-thats-totally-normal.shtml

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 78 comments

Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/21/i-wrote-a-book-on-conversion-optimization-for-software-companies/

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 93 comments

NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20121218.html

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 33 comments

China listening in on Skype - Microsoft assumes you approve

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/dec/china-listening-skype-microsoft-assumes-you-approve

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 97 comments

Rust 0.5 released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-December/002787.html

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 52 comments

“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised Agency?”

https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/letter-from-a-passenger-how-do-tsa-employees-feel-about-working-for-a-despised-agency/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 91 comments

Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)

http://nixsrv.com/llthw

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 78 comments

LLVM and Clang 3.2 released

http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 57 comments

D3 3.0 released

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/3.0

14 years ago

★ 112.8k Shell ISC
138 upvotes – 14 comments

Improved User Profiles

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/12/20/improved-user-profiles/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 43 comments

The End of x86? An Update

http://fernstrategy.com/2012/12/21/the-end-of-x86-an-update/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 90 comments

Merry Doomsday HN: All of my YC Facelifts are free to download and use

http://kyrobeshay.com/post/38495077960/merry-doomsday-yc-facelift-psd-bundle

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

https://servus.io

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: A Smart Name Brainstorming And Domain Search Engine

http://www.namemesh.com/?s=hn

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views

http://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube-universal-sony-fake-views-black-hat/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Chrome 25 to disable silent extension installation actively and retroactively

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/21/google-chrome-25-will-disable-silent-extension-installation-kill-all-such-extensions-retroactively/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer

http://www.techinasia.com/north-korea-computer-game-pyongyang-racer/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Designing 'X Phone' to Rival Apple, Samsung

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324731304578191711598368942-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

Art.sy Open Source

http://artsy.github.com/open-source/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

AWS Data Pipeline

http://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Node.js error handling

http://snmaynard.com/2012/12/21/node-error-handling/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple lifts block on combo 30-pin+Lightning charging accessories

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/apple-lifts-block-on-combo-30-pinlightning-charging-accessories/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin Core Development Status Report #2

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=85

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

New Official Facebook Poke iOS Application

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-poke/id588594730?mt=8

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 58 comments

Raspberry Pi Used to Replace 30-Foot GSM Base Station and Create Mobile Network

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/raspberry-pi-used-to-replace-a-30-foot-gsm-base-station-and-create-a-working-mobile-network/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Seven Codes You'll Never Ever Break

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/codes/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple shifts iTunes to HTTPS, sidesteps China’s censors

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/itunes_https_shift_routes_around_great_firewall/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Mozilla brings back 64-bit builds of Firefox for Windows

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/DOihL2429NM/discussion

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: A DNS server that removes the top million domains

http://millionshort.com/dns.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft Kills Expression Suite

http://expression.microsoft.com/en-US/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 56 comments

Want to chat with inaccessible people? Pay them, not Facebook

https://www.gramicon.com/pages/howto

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 48 comments
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