top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-27

Stop Generalizing About Europe

http://jonasbentzen.com/stop-generalizing-about-europe/

14 years ago

441 upvotes – 347 comments

What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?

http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/doctor_airplane/doctor_airplane.html

14 years ago

363 upvotes – 195 comments

Rails is omakase

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.html

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website

http://www.howacarworks.com/about

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 104 comments

Json ⊄ js

https://medium.com/joys-of-javascript/42a28471221d

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 102 comments

Developing Backbone.js Applications

http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 43 comments

How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career)

http://www.jamiebegin.com/how-to-become-a-successful-freelance-web-developer-and-not-kill-your-career/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 64 comments

Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation

http://moz.com/rand/never-have-the-what-would-it-take-to-keep-you-here-conversation/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 92 comments

Free Data Science Books

http://www.p-value.info/2012/11/free-datascience-books.html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 8 comments

Free DNS Tools

http://viewdns.info/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 6 comments

If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it

http://blog.maxrudberg.com/post/38958984259/if-you-see-a-ui-walkthrough-they-blew-it

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 67 comments

Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/why-we-should-all-care-about-senates-vote-fisa-amendments-act-warrantless-domestic

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

$26,679 in 24 hours: Stats from my latest book launch

http://nathanbarry.com/behind-the-scenes/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

Let's make a FirefoxOS app

http://12devsofxmas.co.uk/post/2012-12-27-day-2-lets-make-a-firefoxos-app

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Special Purpose Linux Distributions

http://www.slashgeek.net/2012/12/27/10-single-purpose-linux-distributions/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Linux Is Coming to Windows 8 PCs... Slowly

http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-is-coming-to-windows-8-pcs-slowly

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Ouya begins shipping developer consoles

http://www.slashgear.com/ouya-begins-shipping-developer-consoles-27262286/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

On Being A Senior Engineer

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Goodbye Google Reader

http://blog.mediumequalsmessage.com/goodbye-ubiquitous-digital-service

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

University wins $1.17 billion hard disk patent verdict against Marvell

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/jury-slams-marvell-with-mammoth-1-17-billion-patent-verdict

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

Linus on kernel changes breaking user programs (from 2012/12/23)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Raspberry Pi creations

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/10-raspberry-pi-creations-that-show-how-amazing-the-tiny-pc-can-be/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: I’m not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974993

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 66 comments

Page speed really does matter

http://www.gigpeppers.com/page-speed-really-does-matter-2/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript

http://coffeekup.org/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Posting Of Gun Permit Owners

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/26/journalists-addresses-posted-google-maps-gun/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 88 comments

Geary: New lightweight email reader for GNOME designed around conversations

http://yorba.org/geary/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Computers: It's time to start over.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/computing/software/computers-its-time-to-start-over

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 44 comments

KDE Gains “Magic Monitor” Functionality With New KScreen

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/12/kde-gains-magic-monitor-functionality-with-new-kscreen/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 48 comments

29C3 Live Stream from Hamburg (Keynote: Jacob Appelbaum)

http://saal1.rtmp.29c3.fem-net.de/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Creating a Great Place to Work

http://maxlynch.com/blog/hiring/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments

Offer HN: $2000 worth of free work (last 4 days to get your idea in)

http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/37-2000-of-free-work-on-your-exciting-project-last-4-days-to-get-your-ideas-in.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Most valuable skills you have?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974230

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 68 comments

Mathematician's Century-Old Secrets Unlocked

http://news.yahoo.com/mathematicians-century-old-secrets-unlocked-171554694.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

What It's Like To Work Future Style

http://hoppycow.com/2012/12/26/what-its-like-to-work-future-style/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments
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