top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-12-25

Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/congress-at-last-minute-drops-requirement-to-obtain-warrant-to-monitor-email-121225

14 years ago

Expedia: Bad for the Traveler, Bad for the Hotel

http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/

14 years ago

Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966230

14 years ago

A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/23/a-self-made-man-looks-at-how-he-made-it/

14 years ago

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

14 years ago

SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off and Lands Vertically [video]

http://www.crazyengineers.com/spacex-grasshopper-takes-off-lands-vertically-video/

14 years ago

Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/24/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro

14 years ago

Are mass shootings really random events? A look at the US numbers

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/12/24/are-mass-shootings-really-random-events-a-look-at-the-us-numbers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-mass-shootings-really-random-events-a-look-at-the-us-numbers

14 years ago

How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.single.html

14 years ago

Python alternatives for PHP functions

http://www.php2python.com/

14 years ago