top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-17

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/

13 years ago

834 upvotes – 472 comments

Geneva drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive

13 years ago

481 upvotes – 71 comments

We Need to Talk About TED

http://www.bratton.info/projects/talks/we-need-to-talk-about-ted/

13 years ago

415 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

http://www.myth.io/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 152 comments

CSS animated loading indicators

http://tobiasahlin.com/spinkit/

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 70 comments

We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

http://ryancarson.com/post/21708810513/4-day-week

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 126 comments

Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/tech-firms-obama-meeting-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 87 comments

High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 212 comments

From carpool to deadpool: Ridejoy’s startup journey

http://blog.ridejoy.com/from-carpool-to-deadpool-ridejoys-startup-journey/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 77 comments

JavaScript Promises: There and back again

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/#!

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 74 comments

Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts

http://justdelete.me/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 39 comments

The Cinematography of "The Incredibles"

http://floobynooby.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-cinematography-of-incredibles-part-1.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 38 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks - Round 8

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7&test=json

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 165 comments

Elsevier steps up its War On Access

http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 82 comments

A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers

http://earth.nullschool.net

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Google isn't our Bell Labs

http://begun.co/why-google-isnt-our-bell-labs

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 122 comments

PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length

http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 157 comments

How Sleep Clears the Brain

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/october2013/10282013clear.htm

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Fedora 20 released

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/index.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

FasterCGI with HHVM

http://www.hhvm.com/blog/1817/fastercgi-with-hhvm

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments
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