top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-12

RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike

15 years ago

546 upvotes – 163 comments

STFU About What Women Want

http://usersknow.blogspot.com/2011/12/stfu-about-what-women-want.html

15 years ago

510 upvotes – 214 comments

TextMate 2

http://old.nabble.com/Release-candidate-p32959420.html

15 years ago

374 upvotes – 157 comments

Programming With Nothing: FizzBuzz in the lambda calculus in Ruby

http://experthuman.com/programming-with-nothing

15 years ago

333 upvotes – 52 comments

Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into Chrome

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=113066

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 90 comments

Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud

http://antonnikolenko.blogspot.com/2011/12/russian-legislative-elections-2011.html

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 57 comments

When Truth Survives Free Speech

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/media/when-truth-survives-free-speech.html?pagewanted=1&src=dayp

15 years ago

266 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/11/why-spotify-can-never-be-profitable-the-secret-demands-of-record-labels/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 124 comments

Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-to-sue-universal-joins-fight-against-sopa-111212/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 59 comments

AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default

https://adblockplus.org/development-builds/allowing-acceptable-ads-in-adblock-plus

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 165 comments

The Day I Saw Van Gogh’s Genius in a New Light

http://asada0.tumblr.com/post/11517603099/the-day-i-saw-van-goghs-genius-in-a-new-light

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 65 comments

Create - A new kind of web editing interface

http://createjs.org/

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 70 comments

The Secret Number

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20001120/secret_number.shtml

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 60 comments

FBI: Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes"

http://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2011/dec/12/fbi-carrier-iq-files-used-law-enforcement-purposes/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 78 comments

Wikipedia Considers Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA

http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-mulls-total-blackout-to-oppose-sopa-111212/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 57 comments

CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android

http://minming.posterous.com/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (and released)

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcore-2-0-is-now-ember-js/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

Hiring Employee #1

http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-hiring-advice.html

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

We work for the Internet

http://iworkfortheinternet.org/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 35 comments

Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/isaac-newton-papers/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/teachers-dont-like-creative-students.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

Interactive CSS3 lighting effects

http://attasi.com/labs/ipad/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Python URL manipulation made simple.

https://github.com/gruns/furl

15 years ago

★ 2.7k Python
96 upvotes – 23 comments

Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/motorola-secures-europe-wide-sales-ban-on-iphone-ipad/1435

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

Humanhash: Human-readable representations of digests

https://github.com/zacharyvoase/humanhash

15 years ago

★ 865 Python Unlicense
87 upvotes – 22 comments

EU mandates that public sector information be shared as open data

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1524

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

PostgreSQL 9.1.2

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-2.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

Kenton's Weekend Projects: LAN-Party Optimized House

http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-optimized-house.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

An Office Designed To Keep Employees Working From Home

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678967/an-office-designed-to-keep-employees-working-from-home

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Tokenising the english text of 30TB common crawl

http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/12/10/common_crawl_visible_text/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

Women (and everyone else, really) should do startups

http://zachholman.com/posts/women-should-do-startups

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Node.js has a new website

http://nodejs.org

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Mark Cuban Invest in Yourself

http://www.trendslate.com/2011/12/11/mark-cuban-invest-in-yourself/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Tutorial: Play Framework, JPA, JSON, jQuery, & Heroku

http://www.jamesward.com/2011/12/11/tutorial-play-framework-jpa-json-jquery-heroku

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Google+ will become Google's only product

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222547/Why_Google_will_become_Google_s_only_product

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

Sproutcore 2.0 renamed to Ember.js - GitHub

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js

15 years ago

★ 22.5k TypeScript MIT
62 upvotes – 21 comments

The People's Skype

http://peoplesskype.org/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Windows 8 Store will allow open source apps

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/108551-windows-8-store-will-allow-open-source-apps-unlike-ios-and-mac

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

Why In-Person Socializing Is A Mandatory To-Do Item

http://www.fastcompany.com/1800307/why-in-person-socializing-is-a-mandatory-to-do-item

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

What would a Higgs at 125 GeV tell us?

http://blog.vixra.org/2011/12/04/what-would-a-higgs-at-125-gev-tell-us/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

(take 6 carin-meier)

http://clojure.com/blog/2011/12/12/take6-carin-meier.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments
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