For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2012-12-29register
Stories from December 29, 2012
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.
Tenth Grade Tech Trends (medium.com/product-design)
294 points by j2labs on Dec 29, 2012 | 144 comments
2.
Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012 (kalzumeus.com)
278 points by janpio on Dec 29, 2012 | 129 comments
3.
Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012 (io9.com)
270 points by andreavaccari on Dec 29, 2012 | 122 comments
4.
It's like JSON. but fast and small. (msgpack.org)
188 points by dsr12 on Dec 29, 2012 | 100 comments
5.
Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap (aristath.github.com)
149 points by Hirvesh on Dec 29, 2012 | 25 comments
6.
Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot (fsf.org)
147 points by mtgx on Dec 29, 2012 | 63 comments
7.
Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice (perfplanet.com)
133 points by ssttoo on Dec 29, 2012 | 63 comments
8.
GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice (wired.com)
130 points by cyphersanctus on Dec 29, 2012 | 95 comments
9.
Impress.js demo - presentation program (bartaz.github.com)
105 points by misleading_name on Dec 29, 2012 | 34 comments
10.
Average age of StackExchange users for each tag (brianbondy.com)
98 points by timothybone on Dec 29, 2012 | 48 comments
11.
Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk (asherwolf.com)
98 points by th0ma5 on Dec 29, 2012 | 149 comments
12.
Why Learn Scala in 2013? (typesafe.com)
91 points by Garbage on Dec 29, 2012 | 74 comments
13.
Why Facebook Makes Us Depressed (shkspr.mobi)
85 points by edent on Dec 29, 2012 | 70 comments
14.
The Hacker School Experience (wired.com)
85 points by nicholasjbs on Dec 29, 2012 | 63 comments
15.
Show HN: WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project) (whenepisode.com)
81 points by vojant on Dec 29, 2012 | 65 comments
16.
Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington? (reason.com)
72 points by mtgx on Dec 29, 2012 | 103 comments
17.
Aspects of Building a Node.js Application (gosquared.com)
65 points by gnw on Dec 29, 2012 | 21 comments
18.
It's "locking" if it's blocking (yosefk.com)
57 points by nathell on Dec 29, 2012 | 26 comments
19.
Fear of Flying (500hats.com)
56 points by yoseph on Dec 29, 2012 | 19 comments
20.
Why Canada's productivity has been underestimated for decades (theglobeandmail.com)
56 points by soundsop on Dec 29, 2012 | 49 comments
21.
Open source groups warn Greece will waste millions on school software (europa.eu)
56 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 29, 2012 | 57 comments
22.
Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts (facebook.com)
54 points by lispython on Dec 29, 2012 | 48 comments
23.
Documenting the Undocumentable (dadgum.com)
53 points by prajjwal on Dec 29, 2012 | 8 comments
24.
Games Physics: Basics and Implementation of Predictive Collision Detection (codetheory.in)
52 points by kushsolitary on Dec 29, 2012 | 23 comments
25.
Donate to The NetBSD Foundation (netbsd.org)
49 points by enduser on Dec 29, 2012 | 36 comments
26.
Is Sugar the Next Tobacco? (psmag.com)
49 points by dcurtis on Dec 29, 2012 | 88 comments
27.
Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compiles to JVM & JavaScript (jetbrains.org)
46 points by amarsahinovic on Dec 29, 2012 | 33 comments
28.
Which Distros Work on New Windows 8 Machines (ostatic.com)
45 points by Garbage on Dec 29, 2012 | 37 comments
29.
Monads are a Class of Hard Drugs (2008) (lambda-diode.com)
43 points by paul-woolcock on Dec 29, 2012 | 36 comments
30.
Separation, Abstraction, and Cascading in CSS (lispcast.com)
43 points by oskarth on Dec 29, 2012 | 31 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You