top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-19

Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa

http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/spoiler-alert-bill-gates-did-not-get-you/

13 years ago

745 upvotes – 226 comments

The Future of JavaScript MVCs

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/

13 years ago

564 upvotes – 156 comments

Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer

http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries

13 years ago

527 upvotes – 337 comments

A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers

http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 131 comments

Sent $10,701.03 to Coinbase. Still missing bitcoins.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933360

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 133 comments

My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

http://blog.lescapadou.com/2013/12/my-experience-in-education-apps-market.html?hn

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 80 comments

Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js

http://koajs.com/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 121 comments

I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/19/anarchist-cookbook-author-william-powell-out-of-print

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 190 comments

Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner

http://www.vice.com/read/two-environmentalists-were-charged-with-terrorism-hoax-for-too-much-glitter-on-their-banner

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 115 comments

Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom

http://www.fsf.org/news/gluglug-x60-laptop-now-certified-to-respect-your-freedom

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 95 comments

Go 1.3+ Compiler Overhaul

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3BLR31VA8cvLJLfMibSuTdwTuF7WWLux71CYD0eeD8/preview?sle=true

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 172 comments

Perl is 26 Today

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/12/perl-is-26-today.html

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 189 comments

Steam Machine Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Steam+Machine+Teardown/20473

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 127 comments

UK Porn filters block sex education websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 175 comments

The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers

http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2013/12/19/The-Taxonomy-of-Terrible-Programmers.aspx

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 130 comments

The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (1998)

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#contests

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 19 comments

My Hardest Bug

http://www.peterlundgren.com/blog/my-hardest-bug/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster

http://www.hhvm.com/blog/2813/we-are-the-98-5-and-the-16

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 103 comments

'Pardon Snowden,' one tech exec tells Obama, report says

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57616044-38/pardon-snowden-one-tech-exec-tells-obama-report-says/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 108 comments

I now have Rust code for executing executables

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/19/day-45-reading-elf-headers/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 22 comments
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