top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-02

Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along

15 years ago

731 upvotes – 226 comments

A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising

http://www.good.is/post/a-happy-flourishing-city-with-no-advertising

15 years ago

344 upvotes – 119 comments

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 90 comments

TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps

http://mapbox.com/tilemill/

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: How I built a self-driving (RC) car.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417830

15 years ago

300 upvotes – 21 comments

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/#.Tv4NA-e7HkY.mailto

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 186 comments

Belarus Makes Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor

http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402929_text

15 years ago

256 upvotes – 85 comments

New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/newyears-resolution-full-disk-encryption-every-computer-you-own

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 182 comments

I am done with the freemium business model

http://www.tylernichols.com/web-development/i-am-done-with-the-freemium-business-model

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 108 comments

Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking

http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 86 comments

Top job boards for software devs

http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/jobs/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 25 comments

The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27437/#.TwCoUmRdUnU.twitter

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 43 comments

Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/01/luxury-car-sharing-service-higear-shuts-down-due-to-theft/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 143 comments

Clean Your App Permissions in 2 Minutes

http://mypermissions.org/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 24 comments

Galaxy Nexus Power Analysis: Why chargers can't keep up with navigation

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/nystt/galaxy_nexus_power_analysis_why_chargers_cant/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

Reducing Code Nesting

http://eflorenzano.com/blog/2012/01/01/reducing-code-nesting/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 113 comments

Using the Dropbox API from Haskell

http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=129

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 5 comments

Hackers said to be planning to Launch Satellites to Combat Censorship

http://www.pcworld.com/article/247147/hackers_said_to_be_planning_to_launch_own_satellites_to_combat_censorship.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Javascript Ray Tracer

http://fooo.fr/~vjeux/epita/raytracer/raytracer.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

Learning to Eat Well and Stay Healthy

http://howtoeatandlive.com/2012/01/learning-to-eat-well-and-stay-healthy/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments
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