top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-28

What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?

http://ask.metafilter.com/224344/What-one-book-could-give-me-a-new-useful-superpower

14 years ago

475 upvotes – 295 comments

The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/As-Freezing-Persons-Recollect-the-Snow--First-Chill--Then-Stupor--Then-the-Letting-Go.html?page=all

14 years ago

437 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: CSS3 animation

http://www.thegoodman.cc/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 95 comments

SQL is Agile

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/12/29/sql-is-agile/

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 160 comments

Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 83 comments

$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 92 comments

Solve your first world problems

http://www.firstworldproblems.biz/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 49 comments

Warrantless wiretaps? Congress votes yes

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/warrantless-wiretaps-congress-votes-yes/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: The home automation system with an API

http://new.ninjablocks.com/hn

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Hacking a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker

http://jordanburgess.com/post/38986434391/raspberry-pi-airplay

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 73 comments

YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Industry

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/youtube-sony-bmg-universal,news-16514.html#xtor=RSS-980

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 48 comments

OS X emulation layer for Linux

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 73 comments

Is it worth selling software on Ubuntu Software Centre?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978102

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

RubyFlux: a Ruby to Java compiler

https://github.com/headius/rubyflux

14 years ago

★ 453 Ruby Apache-2.0
112 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward and Awful

http://sam-dunne.com/post/39040255207

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

Things Developers Should Do For Web Accessibility

http://laneshill.me/2012/12/10-easy-things-all-web-developers-should-do-for-web-accessibility/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Harmogram, Web Audio API + Canvas (Paper.js) FFT/Harmonograph

http://harmogram.com

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4977675

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

What Is It Like To Be an Adult and Not Have Kids?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2012/12/28/what_is_it_like_to_be_an_adult_and_not_have_kids.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 171 comments

AppData says that Instagram may have lost 25% of users after TOS change

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rage_against_Dh05rPifiXBIJRE1rCOyML

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 85 comments

Ratan Tata, Head of $100B Tata & Sons, Retires

http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/ratan-tata-toast-of-india-inc-bids-adieu/article4248705.ece

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Nasdaq Dubstep

https://soundcloud.com/motin/dbstep-nasdaq-dubstep

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (2011)

http://danshipper.com/how-i-made-350-in-two-days-with-three-pages-a

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

TCP incast: What is it? How can it affect Erlang applications?

http://www.snookles.com/slf-blog/2012/01/05/tcp-incast-what-is-it/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year

http://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-50-million-pirate-search-results-this-year-121228/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The Product Manager's Lament

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121211155158-2157554-the-product-manager-s-lament

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

SDK published for Ouya - Apache 2.0 licensed

http://www.ouya.tv/its-open-season/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

FreeBSD Foundation exceeds target for 2012

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

The Choices Are Fake and the Truth Is All Made Up

http://danshipper.com/the-choices-are-fake-and-the-truth-is-all-made-up

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments

Debtmageddon vs the robot utopia

http://www.steamthing.com/2011/07/debtmageddon-vs-the-robot-utopia.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 93 comments

IF-less programming

http://alisnic.github.com/posts/ifless/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 114 comments

Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/12/root-domain-amazon-s3-website.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978282

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 88 comments

How to Tackle Three of the Toughest Interview Questions

http://lifehacker.com/5971473/how-to-tackle-three-of-the-toughest-interview-questions

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 60 comments
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