top 20 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

501 upvotes – 196 comments

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

467 upvotes – 175 comments

Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012

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

14 years ago

359 upvotes – 220 comments

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

240 upvotes – 137 comments

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

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

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 86 comments

SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off and Lands Vertically [video]

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

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 53 comments

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

171 upvotes – 105 comments

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

156 upvotes – 111 comments

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

147 upvotes – 97 comments

Python alternatives for PHP functions

http://www.php2python.com/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 81 comments

SpaceX’s entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws Lockheed jab

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/spacexs-entry-into-70-billion-us-launch-market-draws-lockheed-jab/2012/12/23/a0e4fd0c-4a2e-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_story.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

GNU Typist

http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 57 comments

Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent

http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-studios-caught-pirating-movies-on-bittorrent-121225/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitted iOS addict

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/12/22/30-days-with-windows-phone-8-perspective-from-an-admitted-ios-addict/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWebMicrosoft+(The+Next+Web+Microsoft)

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

Ideas for Raspberry Pi Projects

http://pingbin.com/2012/12/30-cool-ideas-raspberry-pi-project/#

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265

https://xiph.org/daala/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Full text search indexing stemmer added to MongoDB core

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-380?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=224020#comment-224020

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited

http://www.victoriassecret.com/site-terms-and-notices/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

Netflix is Down

http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-down-xmas-eve/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 78 comments

Lester's Time Has Come Today (Thanks, HN, You got this started)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/tech/web/lester-chambers-kickstarter/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments
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