top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-28

How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google

http://nenadseo.com/new-seo/#

13 years ago

494 upvotes – 155 comments

Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

http://gfycat.com/about

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 72 comments

A glimpse into a new programming language under development at Microsoft

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4862

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 224 comments

Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/27/257560971/architects-dream-house-less-than-200-square-feet

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 150 comments

Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975638

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 177 comments

Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 506 comments

Rust is surprisingly expressive

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-is-surprisingly-expressive

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 146 comments

How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010)

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfect-mcdonalds-style-french-fries.html?daysago=1300

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 73 comments

A Soft Murmur – Ambient sounds to wash away distraction

http://asoftmurmur.com

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 81 comments

How Blender started, twenty years ago

http://code.blender.org/index.php/2013/12/how-blender-started-twenty-years-ago/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 40 comments

The Rust standard library no longer has any scheduling baked into it

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-December/007565.html

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 69 comments

Happy new year and goodbye bzip2

https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 46 comments

MAME 0.151 ROMs

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

XSS in Gmail through Rapportive

http://blog.kotowicz.net/2013/12/rapportive-xsses-gmail-or-have-yourself.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

A Patent From 2004 Describes Dual EC As Key Escrow

https://twitter.com/eqe/status/417035396044697600

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974835

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 76 comments

Advanced Computer Architecture Reading List

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cda5106/summer02/reading.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

Help me bring Black Girls Code to Brooklyn - I'm matching the first $5K

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/no-sleep-till-brooklyn-for-black-girls-code-ny?force_desktop=1&utm_source=crowdtilt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=comment&utm_content=comment_cta&utm_campaign=notification

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 230 comments

Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/28/googles-chromebooks-have-hit-their-stride/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 129 comments

From near-death to Silicon Valley CEO

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24793542/ramona-piersons-remarkable-tale-from-near-death-silicon?n=1

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Escape the Community College Trap

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/how-to-escape-the-community-college-trap/355745/?single_page=true

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Clipperz is moving out of the US

https://www.clipperz.com/blog/2013/12/27/leaving-the-US/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Learn Sanskrit Online

http://www.learnsanskrit.org/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 79 comments

Guide to Leaving your Mac

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2013/12/26/guide-to-leaving-your-mac-laptop/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 119 comments

Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch

http://www.frontiersin.org/Systems_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00102/full

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Saving the Lost Art of Conversation

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-eavesdropper/355727/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job

http://blog.codecombat.com/beat-this-level-get-a-programming-job

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 72 comments

2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large

http://daringfireball.net/2013/12/the_year_in_apple_and_technology

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 66 comments

Accuracy takes power: a 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (2010)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator?daysago=580

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Bogo-bogosort

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/bogobogosort.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Uber now has to wait 15 minutes before picking you up in France

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/28/uber-lecab-and-others-now-have-to-wait-15-minutes-before-picking-you-up-in-france/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How would a new OS be different?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6973820

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments
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