top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-24

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html

13 years ago

687 upvotes – 201 comments

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315

13 years ago

569 upvotes – 154 comments

The real use of money is to buy freedom

http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/money-buys-freedom.htm

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 295 comments

Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/24/10484402.aspx

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 58 comments

Unicorn Jobs

http://www.pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 92 comments

Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/whos-selling-credit-cards-from-target/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 83 comments

Code != computer science

http://www.ultrasaurus.com/2013/12/code-computer-science/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 142 comments

So, you want to crypto

http://blog.existentialize.com/so-you-want-to-crypto.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 73 comments

Unprofessionalism

http://www.allenpike.com/2013/unprofessionalism/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO

http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-founders-open-letter-to-google-about-rap-genius-seo-lyrics

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 159 comments

Python Practice Projects

http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 24 comments

North Korean Officials Flood to China, Possible Mass Defection

http://www.koreabang.com/2013/stories/north-korean-officials-flood-to-china-possible-mass-defection.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 83 comments

Why use Clojure?

http://www.paradiso.cc/why-use-clojure/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 104 comments

Clojure vs. Scala

http://programming-puzzler.blogspot.se/2013/12/clojure-vs-scala.html

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 132 comments

How Netflix Reinvented HR

http://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/1

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 52 comments

Indian Scientists developed Insulin Pill for diabetics

http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/indian-scientists-developed-insulin-pill-for-diabetics-1387625296-1

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

GNUnet 0.10.0 released

https://gnunet.org/gnunet0-10-0

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters

http://www.stavros.io/posts/bloom-filter-search-engine/?print

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Datacoin

http://datacoin.info/index.php?id=index

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Become a Better Developer

https://coderwall.com/p/hd49fq

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments

Is Ruby Dying?

http://jmoses.co/2013/12/21/is-ruby-dying.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 152 comments

How Does Facebook Know What's In My Amazon Shopping Cart?

http://thecodist.com/article/how_does_facebook_know_what_39_s_in_my_amazon_shopping_cart

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/23/british-petroleum-geologist-peak-oil-break-economy-recession

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 98 comments

Why Programming Language X Is Unambiguously Better than Programming Language Y

http://joelgrus.com/2013/12/24/why-programming-language-x-is-unambiguously-better-than-programming-language-y/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

This Is How I Work

http://www.semihyagcioglu.com/post/70798815261/this-is-how-i-work#via=hackernews

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Top Science Articles of 2013

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/23/top-science-longreads-of-2013/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 7 comments

Advanced Image Optimization Tricks

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/advanced-image-optimization/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Countdown – Twitter bot which tweets answers to the Countdown TV show

https://github.com/benjojo/Countdown

13 years ago

★ 94 C# MIT
67 upvotes – 23 comments

How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?

http://jaredcosulich.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/how-does-this-not-blow-your-mind/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 89 comments

Moonpig: a billing system that doesn't suck

http://blog.plover.com/prog/Moonpig.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 58 comments

Investing Time vs. Spending Time

http://tynan.com/investingtime

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What is the best drone for hackers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960747

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments
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