top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-24

How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1KVhGQSYE5B4dF6aNLc0hxYW0qeEVFSR8gx4pJUt4DYE

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Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer

http://dubhrosa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lessons-learning-haskell.html?m=1

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Kenyan Women Create Their Own 'Geek Culture'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/12/24/167961947/kenyan-women-create-their-own-geek-cuture

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What is the enlightenment I'm supposed to attain after studying finite automata?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/14811/what-is-the-enlightenment-im-supposed-to-attain-after-studying-finite-automata

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The Parley Letter

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/the-parley-letter.html

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Zed Shaw's Template for "Learn X The Hard Way" Books

https://gitorious.org/learn-x-the-hard-way/learn-x-the-hard-way/blobs/master/README

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DARPA challange: Can you program a radio to dominate the spectrum?

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/12/20.aspx

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Webshell.io

http://webshell.io/

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Astrology For Businesses

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/12/astrology-for-businesses/

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Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)

http://aphyr.github.com/riemann/

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Incremental Regular Expressions

http://jkff.info/articles/ire/

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On user program breakage from Linux kernel changes

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106

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Sikuli: Write scripts using GUI buttons and screenshots

http://www.sikuli.org/

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VLC for Windows 8 reaches $65,000 funding goal with five days to spare

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/12/23/vlc-for-windows-8-reaches-65000-funding-goal-on-kickstarter-with-five-days-to-spare/

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The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6529/busting-the-x86-power-myth-indepth-clover-trail-power-analysis

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On logic in a Rails app

http://alisnic.github.com/posts/rails-logic/

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How to Write your own Minesweeper AI

http://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/2125/

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Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? We Did That 40 Years Ago

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/social-media-history/

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Using Github issues to track house repairs

https://github.com/frabcus/house

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Understanding map, filter, and fold

http://www.dev.gd/20121224-understanding-map-filter-and-fold.html

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Diabetes - time for open data and disruptive technology

http://alexblandford.tumblr.com/post/38725722842/blood-sugar

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The concept of antifragility: Shockingly Happy

http://williampeng.com/post/38700040137/shockingly-happy

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Show HN: I made a CLI to retrieve info from the IMDB

https://github.com/zacoppotamus/TerminaIMdB

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★ 143 Python

Collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors

http://demin.ws/blog/english/2012/12/24/my-i8080-collection/

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C Books and C++ Books You Don't Want

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/CS/BadBooksC+C++.html

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NSA targeting domestic computer systems in secret test

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57560644-93/revealed-nsa-targeting-domestic-computer-systems-in-secret-test/

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Introducing the PiCloud Notebook

http://blog.picloud.com/2012/12/23/introducing-the-picloud-notebook/

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Tech Startup Trends of 2013

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2012/12/24/the-top-5-tech-startup-trends-of-2013/

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CSS3 animated Christmas card

http://marynaaleksandrova.info/labs/christmas-card/

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Cherry Is Shutting Down Its On-Demand Car Wash Service

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/23/cherry-car-wash-shut-down/

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US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/12/us-birth-rate-hits-new-low-a-nation-of-singles/

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“a dribbling selfish jerk” – an analysis of getting on the front page of HN

http://afatefulhaven.com/2012/12/an-analysis-of-getting-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/

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Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards

http://cards.codecademy.com/

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Engineers as Heroes

http://refer.ly/engineers_as_heroes/c/2f05ba284d5d11e2b5ab22000a1db8fa

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Sesame’s Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/our-blog/2012/12/17/sesames-best-practices-guide-for-childrens-app-development/

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Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/mf-tim-oreilly-qa/?hn=1

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Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot days 80% since 1960

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-home-air-conditioning-cut-premature-deaths-on-hot-days-80-percent-since-1960/2012/12/22/5b57f3ac-4abf-11e2-b709-667035ff9029_story.html?tid=socialss

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CasperJS 1.0 stable released

http://casperjs.org

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