top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-16

In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011

15 years ago

Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works

15 years ago

Famous Last Words by Bosses I've Had

http://edweissman.com/famous-last-words-by-bosses-ive-had

15 years ago

How to stop SOPA: Don't build it.

http://greaterdebater.com/blog/gabe/post/27

15 years ago

How Super Mario Bros. 3 was made

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

15 years ago

Design is Horseshit

http://yongfook.com/post/14295124427/design-is-horseshit

15 years ago

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa

15 years ago

In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nf5p1/sopa_emergency_list/

15 years ago

SOPA Hearings Delayed, 140,000 Americans watched the hearings

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/16/sopa-interest-by-the-numbers-and-the-end-of-the-hearing/

15 years ago

Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers

http://avichal.com/2011/12/16/focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers/

15 years ago

Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers

http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-modifiers/

15 years ago

Fly the Airplane

http://dcurt.is/2011/12/15/fly-the-airplane/

15 years ago

Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-BrowserID-on-Your-Site

15 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript

The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw)

http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/book/

15 years ago

How big are PHP arrays (and values) really?

http://nikic.github.com/2011/12/12/How-big-are-PHP-arrays-really-Hint-BIG.html

15 years ago

UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars

15 years ago

SOPA Vote Delayed

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/sopa-vote-delayed/

15 years ago

Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the web browsers?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3722334/why-dont-they-implement-python-and-ruby-on-the-web-browsers

15 years ago

Sprint orders all OEMs to strip Carrier IQ from their hardware

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-hardware-20111216/

15 years ago

Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57343951/sopa-tweet-triggers-political-explosion-delays-vote/

15 years ago