top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-31

A Pickpocket's Tale

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green?currentPage=all&src=longreads

14 years ago

528 upvotes – 68 comments

Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]

http://kaasplateau.com/stretches.pdf

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 122 comments

Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released

http://simon-listens.blogspot.com/2012/12/simon-040.html

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 34 comments

Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/zynga-shuts-down-petville-fishville-mafia-wars-2/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 141 comments

John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released

http://www.amazon.com/dp/193398869X/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 84 comments

Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/uvw2/Thoughts-on-Go-after-writing-3-websites.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

I’m Bored. What’s Next?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/im-bored-whats-next/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 136 comments

How and why I run my own DNS servers

http://bugsplat.info/2012-12-31-how-i-run-my-own-dns.html

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 100 comments

PlaceIt by Breezi - Generate Product Screenshots in Realistic Environments

http://placeit.breezi.com/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Rock Star

http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167051/14-Ways-to-Contribute-to-Open-Source-without-Being-a-Programming-Genius-or-a-Rock-Star

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Simple Ways to Find Potential Customers Online

http://lukethomas.com/simple-ways-to-find-potential-customers/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

How multi-disk failures happen

http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2012/12/how-multi-disk-failures-happen.shtml

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 91 comments

MicroSD card FAQ

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2297

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

Starting The Web App Challenge: From Zero to $5,000/month In 6 Months

http://nathanbarry.com/starting-web-app-challenge/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Guy Kawasaki - Four free books

https://plus.google.com/+GuyKawasaki/posts/TkA1Knf6EZS

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Pirates? Hollywood Sets $10+ Billion Box Office Record

http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-hollywood-sets-10-billion-box-office-record-121231/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 97 comments

Silicon Valley's Problem

http://cbracy.tumblr.com/post/39314979304/silicon-valleys-problem

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 97 comments

Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person

http://theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/12/mapping-census-dot-every-person/4273/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Feynman's Nobel Ambition

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

Reader-submitted Objective-C / XCode tips of 2012

http://www.nshipster.com/reader-submissions-new-years-2013/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

http://gitrep.com/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

Fay: a subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript

http://fay-lang.org/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Amuzor, a new content curator we've been building

http://amuzor.com/submissions

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/will-google-ever-get-a-full-readwrite-api/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

How I Made a 26-Hour Day

http://andrewdumont.me/how-i-made-a-26-hour-day

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I'm Quitting Instagram

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/126113/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web

http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2012/12/30/2012-the-year-irish-newspapers-tried-to-destroy-the-web/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/pentagon-prepare-mutant-future/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

Revisiting JavaScript Objects

http://www.laktek.com/2012/12/29/revisiting-javascript-objects

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Lessons from the 'World's Ugliest Woman': 'Stop Staring and Start Learning'

http://shine.yahoo.com/beauty/lessons-worlds-ugliest-woman-stop-staring-start-learning-184400606.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

State of the World 2013: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky

http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/459/State-of-the-World-2013-Bruce-St-page01.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Pixar Animator Dreams Up a New Superhero — For Each Day of the Year

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/12/365-superheroes/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: What set your hair on fire in 2012?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4990084

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 56 comments

Testing Go on the Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/12/31/testing-go-on-the-raspberry-pi-running-freebsd

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments
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