top 50% 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

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

Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js

http://koajs.com/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 121 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

How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

http://carlyfindlay.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/how-to-win-internet-or-how-to-defend.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 124 comments

How can someone go off-web and anonymize themselves after a life online?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47293/how-can-someone-go-off-web-and-anonymise-themselves-after-a-life-online

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 56 comments

Bing is blank?

https://www.bing.com/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 83 comments

Twitter releases SPDY library for iOS and OS X

https://github.com/twitter/CocoaSPDY

13 years ago

★ 2.3k Objective-C Apache-2.0
114 upvotes – 17 comments

NSA reform panel: Foreigners actually have privacy rights, too

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/spying-reform-panel-the-world-is-not-the-nsas-playground/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Target stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/target-stores-hit-by-data-breach-affecting-40-million-cards-1.2469895

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres

http://blog.codecombat.com/180000-child-programmers-versus-44-ogres

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency

http://dpk.io/blockchain

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 103 comments

1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming'

http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Programming-Explained-Embrace-Change/product-reviews/0201616416/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_recent?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 133 comments

Zero Reserve - A distributed Bitcoin Exchange

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=295930.0

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

React v0.8 is out

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2013/12/19/react-v0.8.0.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

A D3 Viewer for Matplotlib Visualizations

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/12/19/a-d3-viewer-for-matplotlib/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: I made an easy-to-understand 6502 emulator in pure C

https://github.com/haldean/x6502

13 years ago

★ 232 C BSD-4-Clause
88 upvotes – 69 comments

The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Mac Pro Trash Icon

http://jonathanhirz.com/macprotrash-icon/?

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

All Packt ebooks are $5

https://www.packtpub.com/ebookbonanza

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 69 comments

Reverse engineering Snapchat to store files

https://github.com/hausdorff/snapchat-fs

13 years ago

★ 329 Python MIT
83 upvotes – 27 comments

Compiling Rust for GPUs

http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2012/12/05/compiling-rust-for-gpus/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Implementing Real-Time Trending Topics in Storm

http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/01/18/implementing-real-time-trending-topics-in-storm/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

How to Give a Talk

https://zapier.com/blog/how-give-talk/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Sweden fines pirate $650,000 for illegally sharing a single film

http://engadget.com/2013/12/18/sweden-pirate-fine/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Life-size Lego car runs on air

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/lifesize-lego-car-runs-on-air-20131219-2zmyr.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Shit programmers write

http://shitprogrammerswrite.com/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 77 comments

Spotify Examined: What Their Report Really Says

http://ayesimo.com/spotify/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments
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