top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-12-28

Introducing d3-scale

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

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 73 comments

Free Springer math books

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

10 years ago

322 upvotes – 68 comments

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

320 upvotes – 212 comments

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

307 upvotes – 99 comments

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

287 upvotes – 108 comments

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

265 upvotes – 112 comments

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

254 upvotes – 139 comments

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

247 upvotes – 131 comments

AVG: “Web TuneUP” extension multiple critical vulnerabilities

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

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 109 comments

Mysterious Android codebase commit

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

10 years ago

236 upvotes – 158 comments

SQL Tabs – Rich SQL Console for Postgresql

http://www.sqltabs.com/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Engineers Can’t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak

http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 87 comments

A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing

http://ignition.co/398

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 44 comments

React/JavaScript fatigue

https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 183 comments

2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/2015-the-year-that-microsoft-started-getting-the-benefit-of-the-doubt/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 170 comments

Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-windows-computer-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 56 comments

I worked at Amazon to see if anything's changed

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/inside-amazon-at-christmas-929

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 160 comments

AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell

10 years ago

★ 7.3k Python Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 21 comments

How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21684687-high-school-students-want-citizens-rate-their-interactions-officers-how-three

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 128 comments

U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3017196/it-careers/u-s-predicts-zero-job-growth-for-electronics-engineers.html

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 152 comments
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