top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-27

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

https://github.com/anvaka/atree

13 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT
321 upvotes – 26 comments

The best things and stuff of 2013

http://blog.fogus.me/2013/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2013/

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 29 comments

Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/27/sherlock-holmes-is-in-the-public-domain-american-judge-rules/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 116 comments

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 78 comments

Investment increases your risk

http://swombat.com/2013/12/27/investment-increases-risk

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 113 comments

Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages

http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 104 comments

Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers

http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-dentons-phony-hypocritical-class-war-against-tech-workers/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 35 comments

”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”

http://digitstodollars.com/2013/12/27/no-one-at-google-is-returning-our-calls/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 90 comments

New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/a-new-twist-in-international-relations-the-corporate-keep-my-data-out-of-the-u-s-clause.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 100 comments

Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/why-some-people-respond-to-stress-by-falling-asleep/282422/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 30 comments

Great books about mathematics

http://wp.kjro.se/2013/12/27/5-insanely-great-books-about-mathematics-you-should-read/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 58 comments

Learn to think big

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2013/12/learn-to-think-big.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 27 comments

Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g&t=6h30m30s

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 44 comments

Reflected hidden faces in photographs revealed in pupil

http://www.kurzweilai.net/reflected-hidden-faces-in-photographs-revealed-in-pupil

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 112 comments

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark-lord-of-the-internet/355726/?single_page=true

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 46 comments

N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 164 comments

TCP in 30 instructions (1993)

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg00133.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor

http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 77 comments

Admob refunded all my payments

http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/advertising-networks/4032-admob-refunded-all-my-payments-3.html

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

Trolling homework questions - sorting

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/16226/trolling-homework-questions-sorting

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure

http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

A useful Caps Lock key

http://brettterpstra.com/2012/12/08/a-useful-caps-lock-key/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 136 comments

What languages fix

http://paulgraham.com/fix.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

Zotonic - A High Performance Web Framework in Erlang

http://aosabook.org/en/posa/zotonic.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

The Secret Law of Page Harmony

http://retinart.net/graphic-design/secret-law-of-page-harmony/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Boardinghouses: where the city was born

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/01/13/boardinghouses-where-city-was-born/Hpstvjt0kj52ZMpjUOM5RJ/story.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

FreeBSD Journal announced

http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/11/26/freebsd-journal-announced/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

YogaGlo Update

http://www.yogaglo.com/blog/2013/12/yogaglo-update/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

The CDC 6600 Architecture

http://ygdes.com/CDC/cdc6600.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

PostgreSQL indexing in Rails

http://rny.io/rails/postgresql/2013/08/20/postgresql-indexing-in-rails.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

First time in the country, ED raids a Bitcoin seller in Ahmedabad

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-first-time-in-the-country-ed-raids-a-bitcoin-seller-in-ahmedabad-1941187

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

What Surveillance Valley knows about you

http://pando.com/2013/12/22/a-peek-into-surveillance-valley/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Google-offering-free-Chromebooks-to-Indian-schools/articleshow/28000046.cms

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/12/27/north-korea-crowdsourcingescape.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 59 comments

How Spotify builds products [pdf]

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/HowSpotifyBuildsProducts.pdf

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

Running your JS code in Python

http://blog.sheetjs.com/post/71326534924/running-your-js-code-in-python

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

ReText - Markdown editor for Ubuntu

http://sourceforge.net/projects/retext/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

User Culture Versus Programmer Culture

http://pgbovine.net/two-cultures-of-computing.htm?dsffs

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 49 comments

My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template

http://kolodny.github.io/blog/blog/2013/12/27/my-favorite-jquery-plugin-template/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

How to be a hacker

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/27/how-to-be-a-hacker

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

Local State Is Poison (2012)

http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/local-state-is-poison/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Shading a Bigger, Better Sequel: Techniques in Left 4 Dead 2 [pdf]

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/GDC10_ShaderTechniquesL4D2.pdf

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Do you know anyone who left the tech world and found happiness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6970914

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 65 comments

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (2010)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 42 comments
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