top 50% 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

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

Using the Dropbox API from Haskell

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

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 5 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

Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz's Pairing Setup

http://tomdale.net/2012/01/tildes-pairing-setup/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5)

http://ryanbigg.com/2011/12/matt-lightner/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/02/roboto.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Excellent Introduction To Linux Binary Execution System

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~charngda/elf.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js.

http://pdfkit.org/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Zaarly: How To Get 100,000 Subscribers In 3.5 Months – with Bo Fishback

http://mixergy.com/bo-fishback-zaarly-interview/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

GNU /bin/ed 1.6 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2012-01/msg00000.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

R in Action

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/01/02/r-in-action/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

An Ad Blocker Opens the Gate, Ever So Slightly

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/business/media/adblock-plus-allowing-some-online-advertisements.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

http://pastebay.com/150288

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 80 comments

Replacing small C programs with Haskell

http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/03/replacing-small-c-programs-with-haskell/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

37signals publishing uptime data

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3067-lets-get-honest-about-uptime

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Do you make these 5 database design mistakes?

http://thomaslarock.com/2012/01/do-you-make-these-5-database-design-mistakes/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Damn Simple Carpooling

http://www.damnsimplecarpooling.com

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Do scientists really need a PhD?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7285/full/464007a.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 47 comments
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