top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-26

The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People

http://www.daedtech.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-overrated-people

13 years ago

466 upvotes – 124 comments

Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Year-in-Review-2013

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 167 comments

What is it like to be a geek in a prison?

http://www.quora.com/Prisons-and-Prison-Life/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-geek-in-a-prison?share=1

13 years ago

368 upvotes – 249 comments

Steve Jobs Danced To My Song

https://medium.com/where-you-lead-i-will-follow-indeed/9e805c0f482d

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 29 comments

Uruguay is the Economist's Country of the Year

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591872-resilient-ireland-booming-south-sudan-tumultuous-turkey-our-country-year-earths-got

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 108 comments

Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/12/chicago-makes-computer-science-core-subject

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 153 comments

Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=860-BBCD

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 149 comments

Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE

http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 51 comments

Ubuntu HTML5 SDK

http://developer.ubuntu.com/apps/html-5/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors

http://chrisdone.com/posts/emacs-users-are-like-igor

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

Don't Support Information Architects

http://www.candlerblog.com/2013/12/23/no-thanks-ia/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 87 comments

Is Ruby Fast Yet?

http://www.isrubyfastyet.com/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers

http://www.experientia.com/blog/ethnographic-research-facebook-is-basically-dead-and-buried-with-uk-teenagers

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 114 comments

Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics

https://www.quantcast.com/rapgenius.com?country=GLOBAL

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967516

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: I make my family postcards every year. Here's this year's.

http://postcards.lekevicius.com

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

What are the 'real numbers', really?

http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/courses/thereals/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 96 comments

Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants

http://nypost.com/2013/12/26/professor-admits-faking-aids-vaccine-to-get-19m-in-grants/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Sourcing.io

https://sourcing.io/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad At Finding Their Competition

http://www.berserkia.com/blog/doing-a-competitive-analysis

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

Da Vinci's String Organ

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/12/01/247543086/da-vinci-s-string-organ-must-be-heard-to-be-believed

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Keyboards, UX, and “Fuck”

https://blogmask.herokuapp.com/posts/Mzg=/keyboards-ux-and-fuck

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (1929)

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/exposing-houdinis-tricks-of-magic/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Equational reasoning

http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/12/equational-reasoning.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Serious Science

http://serious-science.org

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework

http://andhart.github.io/bijou/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Bitcoin paradise

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/12/libertarian-enclaves

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: I mapped 30k+ paintings around the world

http://www.artnear.me/museums?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Claude+Oscar+Monet&location=new+york+city

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

JSVM

https://github.com/jawb/JSVM

13 years ago

★ 167 CSS GPL-3.0
69 upvotes – 16 comments

Baidu IME secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201312260081

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/y-combinator-reaches-farther-beyond-silicon-valley.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Top 100 Most Popular Scala Libraries – Based on 10,000 GitHub Projects

http://www.takipiblog.com/2013/12/26/the-top-100-most-popular-scala-libraries-based-on-10000-github-projects/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/15/how-google-is-cleaning-the-web-of-comment-spam/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

In a Car-Culture Clash, It’s the Los Angeles Police vs. Pedestrians

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/us/in-a-car-culture-clash-its-los-angeles-police-vs-pedestrians.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 88 comments

Wallbase: Wallpaper search engine

http://wallbase.cc/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Whistleblower Snowden hailed by internet founder

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/whistleblower-snowden-hailed-by-internet-founder-29867712.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Start-Up Spirit Emerges in Japan

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/business/international/japanese-entrepreneurs-receive-tentative-embrace.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Devtools Console, from Novice to Ninja

http://daker.me/2013/12/devtools-console-from-novice-to-ninja.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Lestac, a non-linear 2D exploration game

http://lestac.net/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 images available

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/10.0/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

Code Like a Chef: Work Clean

http://blog.baugues.com/code-like-a-chef-work-clean

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments
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