top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-25

Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes

http://searchengineland.com/google-has-officially-penalized-rap-genius-for-link-schemes-180777

13 years ago

502 upvotes – 283 comments

How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googlife

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 164 comments

Ruby 2.1 Released

http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 51 comments

0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris

http://play0ad.com/alpha-15-osiris/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 47 comments

Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE

http://peaker.github.io/lamdu/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 88 comments

4 apps, one weekend

http://bitar.io/4-apps-one-weekend/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 59 comments

Google sues to protect Android device makers from Apple-backed patent hell

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/24/google-sues-to-protect-android-device-makers-from-apple-backed-patent-hell/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 120 comments

Should RapGenius be able to "negotiate" with Matt Cutts and Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6964169

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 94 comments

Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching

http://www.zdnet.com/researchers-publish-snapchat-code-allowing-phone-number-matching-after-exploit-disclosures-ignored-7000024629/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Claire Perry forces porn filter, then her page is blocked due to naughty words

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/25/the-best-story-yet-about-the-uks-online-porn-filters/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Result Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 98 comments

Attach anything to anything with sugru and magnets

http://sugru.com/magnet-kit

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

Bit gold (2005)

http://unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk/2005/12/bit-gold.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 88 comments

Santa made out of CSS - Merry Christmas everyone

http://codepen.io/thirty-two-digital/pen/jpkuL

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Telegram secret chat geolocation leak

http://blog.hackapp.com/2013/12/telegram-secret-chat-geolocation-leak.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Ruby 2.1: Profiling Ruby

http://tmm1.net/ruby21-profiling/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Dogewallet hacked - 21 Million Dogecoins stolen

http://doges.org/index.php/topic,5283.0.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

OkTurtles + DNSNMC: Surveillance-free communication on your favorite websites

http://okturtles.com/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Alternative Christmas Message - 4OD [UK]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/alternative-christmas-message/4od

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Introducing itch.io: a marketplace for hosting indie games

http://leafo.net/posts/introducing_itchio.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591793-legendary-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Rosetta Code

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Hack the Developer Console to be Needlessly Interactive for Christmas

https://konklone.com/post/how-to-hack-the-developer-console-to-be-needlessly-interactive?s=d

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Use a real Windows 7 partition in Virtualbox / KVM / VMware Player under Linux

http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-12/use-a-real-windows-7-partition-in-virtualbox-kvm-vmware-player-u.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Oracle Tunes Java's Internal String Representation

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/Oracle-Tunes-Java-String

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs

http://slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0242207/netflix-non-a-players-unworthy-of-jobs

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 70 comments

Thorium Core Cloud Desktop

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desktop

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Pre-New-Year Check of PostgreSQL

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0227/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Reserve Bank of India Cautions Users of Virtual Currencies Against Risks [pdf]

http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/PressRelease/PDFs/IEPR1261VC1213.pdf

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

Why I stopped using Spring

http://johannesbrodwall.com/2013/12/09/why-i-stopped-using-spring/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

A Change to Google Code Download Service

http://google-opensource.blogspot.sg/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments

Tools for the data science craftsman: R, Python, Clojure and Julia

http://blog.redowlanalytics.com/post/67465127385/tools-for-the-data-science-craftsman

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments
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