top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-01-12

Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot/

16 years ago

620 upvotes – 81 comments

For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

http://superuser.com/questions/231273/for-what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used

16 years ago

415 upvotes – 271 comments

A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod#A_Localization_Horror_Story:_It_Could_Happen_To_You

16 years ago

266 upvotes – 67 comments

On Not Hiring

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/01/on-not-hiring.html

16 years ago

241 upvotes – 49 comments

Arbor.js - HTML5 graph visualization library

http://arborjs.org/

16 years ago

193 upvotes – 37 comments

10 Questions for John Gruber Regarding H.264, WebM

http://www.osnews.com/story/24245/10_Questions_for_John_Gruber_Regarding_H_264_WebM

16 years ago

165 upvotes – 104 comments

PS3 Root Key Hacker Sued

http://www.geohot.com/

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 100 comments

Secrets of BackType's (YC S08) Data Engineers

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 12 comments

Bitterness, Anger And Betrayal At MySpace

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/bitterness-anger-and-betrayal-at-myspace/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 82 comments

Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery

http://io9.com/5731129/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/android-translations/

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

So Who Really Owns Facebook? (Chart)

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/01/12/so-who-really-owns-facebook-chart/

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Southwest Airlines pilot holds plane for murder victim’s family

http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane-for-murder-victim%E2%80%99s-family/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"

https://github.com/jimmycuadra/to_lang

16 years ago

★ 294 Ruby MIT
94 upvotes – 43 comments

(Android) Developer Income Report #6

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-6/

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

PEP 3333 Accepted: WSGI standard for Python 3.x

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2011-January/004979.html

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/11/apple_will_not_allow_verizon_to_preload_software_on_iphone.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 73 comments

The PHP strtod() denial of service bug

http://blog.andreas.org/display?id=9

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Programming Innocence

http://projectb14ck.org/programming-innocence

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

On Getting Traction, by Gabriel Weinberg

http://tractionbook.com/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments
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