top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-30

An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/21/167802325/episode-425-an-fbi-hostage-negotiator-buys-a-car

14 years ago

373 upvotes – 147 comments

I don't want to download your app

http://newcome.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/i-dont-want-to-download-your-app/

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 169 comments

WTF Google, you stole my $5

http://programmerstrouble.blogspot.com/2012/12/wtf-google.html

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 114 comments

Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991

http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/vp-elect-joe-biden-is-responsible-for-open-sourcing-email-encryption/

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 120 comments

Getting better and finding happiness through cycling

http://duruk.net/progress-of-happiness/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 99 comments

ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police”

http://torrentfreak.com/isp-walks-out-of-piracy-talks-were-not-the-internet-police-121217/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 8 comments

PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP

https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP

14 years ago

★ 808 PHP MIT
165 upvotes – 47 comments

JavaScript: Clarifying The Keyword ‘this’

http://henrycode.tumblr.com/post/37627169791/javascript-clarifying-the-keyword-this

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 72 comments

Laconic History of the World

http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/3.00/57.89/9.67

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 80 comments

How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty

http://blog.detectify.com/post/39209711597/how-i-got-a-3-500-usd-facebook-bug-bounty

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy

http://planscope.io/blog/giving-up-a-million-dollar-consultancy/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 99 comments

FreeBSD 9.1 Release Announcement

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 61 comments

Chomsky: Work, Learning and Freedom

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/work_learning_and_freedom

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 76 comments

Learn Clojure with Clojure Koans

http://clojurekoans.com/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles

http://blog.useost.com/2012/12/30/valett/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Top Unix Command Line Utilities

http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-12-30-Top-10-Unix-Command-Line-Utilities-2012.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 63 comments

Typing "Sell" in Google Finance redirected to Apple Inc.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=sell

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 68 comments

Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-non-of-ar-and-vr/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/12/28/happy-birthday-linus-linux/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 88 comments

St: Simple terminal implementation for X

http://st.suckless.org/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Post-mortem of Christmas Eve Amazon ELB outage

http://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Nitpicker - an overly picky language style checker

http://nitpickertool.com/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

Android X server

http://my20percent.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/android-x-server/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

How The Huang Brothers Bootstrapped Guitar Hero To A Billion Dollar Business

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/how-the-huang-brothers-bootstrapped-guitar-hero-to-a-billion-dollar-business/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Pycoder's Weekly Python Projects of 2012

http://pycoders.com/2012/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies, aged 103

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/jewish-italian-nobel-scientist-levi-montalcini-dies-aged-103-1.490888

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Why this Silence About The Pirate Bay as a Distributor of Culture?

http://torrentfreak.com/why-this-silence-about-the-pirate-bay-as-a-distributor-of-culture-121230/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: What are your daily must-read sites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986945

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

No, Linux won't be easy to run on a Microsoft Surface

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/21189.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness [audio]

http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138/audio

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Advertising on Mobile Sucks, From the Marketer’s Perspective

http://distributionhacks.com/why-advertising-on-mobile-sucks

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

How to screw up your life by getting promoted

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2012/12/how-to-screw-up-your-life-by-getting-promoted/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

jq: sed for json

http://stedolan.github.com/jq/tutorial/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Hacks that improved my life

http://markhayes.ca/2012/01/05/14-life-hacks-to-make-life-more-awesome/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Should you TDD a MVP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986665

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical statistics

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=53345

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2013?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985473

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 54 comments
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