top 50% 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

669 upvotes – 220 comments

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

389 upvotes – 77 comments

Famous Last Words by Bosses I've Had

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

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 182 comments

How to stop SOPA: Don't build it.

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

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 152 comments

How Super Mario Bros. 3 was made

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

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 29 comments

Design is Horseshit

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

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 141 comments

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

276 upvotes – 44 comments

In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites

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

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 133 comments

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

269 upvotes – 57 comments

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

235 upvotes – 44 comments

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

208 upvotes – 33 comments

Fly the Airplane

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

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 84 comments

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
167 upvotes – 89 comments

The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw)

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

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 27 comments

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

150 upvotes – 86 comments

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

143 upvotes – 54 comments

SOPA Vote Delayed

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

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 15 comments

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

122 upvotes – 141 comments

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

120 upvotes – 12 comments

MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl

http://www.commoncrawl.org/mapreduce-for-the-masses/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate

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

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 84 comments

Recipes with Backbone.js

http://recipeswithbackbone.com/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

Rep. Zoe Lofgren doing a SOPA-related AMA on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nfhhy/member_of_house_judiciary_committee_ama_on_sopa/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 3 comments

SQL Server App Store Reviews (If SQL Server were an app:)

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/12/sql-server-app-store-reviews/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397729,00.asp

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Physics discoveries of 2011

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48126

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

The Checklist (2007)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141615.htm

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Insights: HN vs. Reddit vs. Digg

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=reddit%2C%20hacker%20news%2Cdigg&cmpt=q

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/16/breaking-stanford-pulls-bid-for-new-york-tech-campus/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Grit & Determination

http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/12/grit-determination.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

The "Surprise Exam" paradox

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2011/12/12/the-surprise-exam-and-more-surprises/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments

Megaupload Video Reinstated

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-video-reinstated-universal-says-you-cant-touch-us-111216/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Graphiti: An Alternate Frontend for Graphite

http://dev.paperlesspost.com/blog/2011/12/16/introducing-graphiti-an-alternate-frontend-for-graphite/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

C++11 multithreading tutorial

http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/12/16/cpp-11-thread-tutorial/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

New e-book pricing scheme a surprising assault on the wallet

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9469981-new-e-book-pricing-scheme-a-surprising-assault-on-the-wallet

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

Redis server built in Erlang

http://github.com/inaka/edis

15 years ago

★ 519 Erlang Apache-2.0
50 upvotes – 8 comments

Basic theory of expander graphs

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/245b-notes-1-basic-theory-of-expander-graphs/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments
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