top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-18

Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-sopa-bill-and-any-other-future-bills-threaten-diminish-free-flow-information/g3W1BscR

15 years ago

497 upvotes – 81 comments

Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nhfes/do_you_guys_realize_this_might_mean_reddit_might/c395f00

15 years ago

427 upvotes – 150 comments

Where's Waldo?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-waldo-with-mathematica

15 years ago

409 upvotes – 30 comments

SOPA creator received half a million dollars from the TV/Film/Music lobby

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/1836249/sopa-creator-in-tvfilmmusic-industrys-pocket

15 years ago

300 upvotes – 64 comments

Why have CPUs been limited in frequency to around 3.5Ghz for so many years?

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ngv50/why_have_cpus_been_limited_in_frequency_to_around/

15 years ago

257 upvotes – 111 comments

The switch: Python to Node.js

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/18/the-switch-python-to-node-js/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 134 comments

Why is one loop slower than 2 in C?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8547778/why-is-one-loop-so-much-slower-than-two-loops

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 41 comments

Sinatra::Synchrony - Evented, fast, concurrent Ruby web apps with no callbacks

http://kyledrake.net/sinatra-synchrony

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 30 comments

Assessing a Company: Questions you need to ask in an Interview

http://blog.interviewstreet.com/2011/12/assessing-a-company-questions-you-need-to-ask-in-an-interview/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

"Time-saving" Generators for Designers

http://www.awcore.com/html/news/14/25-Time-saving-Generators_en

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 25 comments

Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer

http://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 41 comments

Crunchfund VC

http://crunchfund.vc/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 63 comments

PHP: Cracks in the foundation

http://phpadvent.org/2011/cracks-in-the-foundation-by-gwynne-raskind

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 76 comments

Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/sovereign-keys-proposal-make-https-and-email-more-secure

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 10 comments

John Carmack's .plan file

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14192/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-1998

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

My Favorite Strange Number: Ω

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/12/my_favorite_strange_number_cla.php

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 14 comments

Device Orientation in HTML5 (tilt your computer if you have a MacBook & Chrome)

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide-orientation

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Vint Cerf: SOPA means 'unprecedented censorship', will undermine security

http://cacm.acm.org/news/144398-vint-cerf-sopa-means-unprecedented-censorship-of-the-web/fulltext

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 3 comments

I’m too lazy to be a HTML developer

http://polygeek.com/4912_life-of-polygeek_im-too-lazy-to-be-a-html-developer

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 88 comments

Why we are taking our startup to Hong Kong and other crazy stories of 2011

http://leostartsup.com/2011/12/why-we-are-taking-our-startup-to-hong-kong-and-other-crazy-stories-of-2011/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 88 comments

The Recording Industry Likes to Make Me Look Like an Asshole

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/the-recording-industry-likes-to-make-me-look-like-an-asshole/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 149 comments

Try Clojure in your browser

http://tryclj.com/?

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

The case for old entrepreneurs

http://wadhwa.com/2011/12/02/washington-post-the-case-for-old-entrepreneurs/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Python Patterns: An Optimization Anecdote

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Await and Defer in Coffeescript core

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/1942

15 years ago

★ 16.5k CoffeeScript MIT
75 upvotes – 25 comments

I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we learned different lessons

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/i-went-to-the-same-school-as-julian-assange-but-we-learned-different-lessons-2936

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Clojure Concurrency

http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-concurrency-819147

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Technology behind Rackspace Cloud Monitoring

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/17/technology-cloud-monitoring/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

Partychat — migrating from Google App Engine to EC2

http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=162

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

What's New in Emacs (Part 2)

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2011/12/12/what-is-new-in-emacs-24-part-2/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

The Accept Header

http://shiflett.org/blog/2011/may/the-accept-header

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments
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