top 10 hacker news stories for 2015-12-28

Introducing d3-scale

https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f#.9qmfpjj3d

10 years ago

Free Springer math books

https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a

10 years ago

Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/stupid-patent-month-microsofts-design-patent-slider

10 years ago

191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/

10 years ago

How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/26/how-i-created-a-350m-software-company-knowing-nothing-about-software/#.e2pipa:kPAt

10 years ago

China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys

http://betanews.com/2015/12/27/china-passes-law-requiring-tech-firms-to-hand-over-encryption-keys/

10 years ago

Judge: Drinking tea, shopping at garden store probable cause for SWAT raid

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/

10 years ago

When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683979-what-happened-when-slaves-and-free-men-were-shipwrecked-together-lu00e8se

10 years ago

AVG: “Web TuneUP” extension multiple critical vulnerabilities

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=675

10 years ago

Mysterious Android codebase commit

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/51b1b6997fd3f980076b8081f7f1165ccc2a4008

10 years ago