top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-29

One Year After Quitting My Job

http://nathanbarry.com/2012-year-quitting-job/

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 159 comments

Tenth Grade Tech Trends

https://medium.com/product-design/d8d4f2300cf3

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 144 comments

Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-other-stuff-year-in-review-2012/

14 years ago

278 upvotes – 129 comments

Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012

http://io9.com/5971328/the-most-futuristic-predictions-that-came-true-in-2012

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 122 comments

It's like JSON. but fast and small.

http://msgpack.org/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 100 comments

Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap

http://aristath.github.com/elusive-iconfont/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 25 comments

Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot

http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/2012-appeal

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 63 comments

Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 63 comments

GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/github-bots/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 95 comments

Impress.js demo - presentation program

http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Average age of StackExchange users for each tag

http://www.brianbondy.com/stackexchange/#expected-age

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk

http://asherwolf.com/dear-hacker-community-we-need-to-talk/101/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 149 comments

Why Learn Scala in 2013?

http://blog.typesafe.com/why-learn-scala

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 74 comments

Why Facebook Makes Us Depressed

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/12/why-facebook-makes-me-feel-like-a-loser/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

The Hacker School Experience

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/12/hacker-school-experience

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)

http://whenepisode.com/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?

http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/28/why-are-people-more-scared-of-facebook-v

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 103 comments

Aspects of Building a Node.js Application

https://engineering.gosquared.com/10-vital-aspects-of-building-a-node-js-application

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

It's "locking" if it's blocking

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/its-locking-if-its-blocking.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

Fear of Flying

http://500hats.com/fear-of-flying

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Open source groups warn Greece will waste millions on school software

http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/open-source-groups-warn-greece-will-waste-millions-school-software

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Canada's productivity has been underestimated for decades

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-competes/why-canadas-productivity-has-been-underestimated-for-decades/article6546888/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 49 comments

Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts

https://www.facebook.com/bram.cohen/posts/10152387480820183

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments

Documenting the Undocumentable

http://prog21.dadgum.com/161.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Games Physics: Basics and Implementation of Predictive Collision Detection

http://codetheory.in/game-physics-basics-and-implementation-of-predictive-collision-detection/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Donate to The NetBSD Foundation

http://www.netbsd.org/donations/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments

Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?

http://www.psmag.com/health/robert-lustig-sugar-obesity-diet-50948/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 88 comments

Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compiles to JVM & JavaScript

http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 33 comments

Which Distros Work on New Windows 8 Machines

http://ostatic.com/blog/which-distros-work-on-new-windows-8-machines

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 37 comments
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