top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-03

PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute

http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/03/from-the-mailbag-27/

15 years ago

988 upvotes – 289 comments

Resolutions for programmers

http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

521 upvotes – 152 comments

Python for Humans

http://python-for-humans.heroku.com/

15 years ago

427 upvotes – 106 comments

TVs are all awful

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8705.html

15 years ago

416 upvotes – 160 comments

IPhone 4 in pure CSS3

http://tjrus.com/iphone

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 60 comments

Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome

http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-post-campaign-for-chrome-106348

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 65 comments

Awesome but Useless

http://awesomebutuseless.com/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Participate in Hacker News

http://edweissman.com/how-to-participate-in-hacker-news

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 121 comments

IE6 Usage Falls to Under 1% in U.S.

http://siliconfilter.com/good-riddance-ie6-usage-falls-to-under-1-in-u-s/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 87 comments

How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour

http://sachagreif.com/how-i-designed-codeyear-com-in-1-hour/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 22 comments

The MicroPHP Manifesto

http://funkatron.com/posts/the-microphp-manifesto.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 72 comments

Drug-Sniffing Dogs Reflect Police Bias

http://www.erowid.org/freedom/police/police_article1.shtml

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 40 comments

HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity

http://verekia.com/initializr/responsive-template

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Cheaper than free: paying for music after searching for a free download

http://blog.bandcamp.com/2012/01/03/cheaper-than-free/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 24 comments

World's Largest Wi-Fi Network Keeps Passwords in Plain Text

http://blog.self.li/post/15236490991/worlds-largest-wifi-network-passwords-plain-text-fon

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 107 comments

Clojure 2011 Year in Review

http://stuartsierra.com/2012/01/03/clojure-2011-year-in-review

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

Computer Scientists and Google+: Something Interesting is Happening

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110908828231461227679/posts/Jq2ktZUPw2v

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 85 comments

R programming for those coming from other languages

http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html?

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

Incubators are a Ghetto

https://stochasticresonance.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/incubators-are-a-ghetto/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Thanks Louis C.K, now here's my Dad

http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/Thanks_Louis_now_here_is_my_dad

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

Write a Compiler in Python - The Experiment Begins

http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2012/01/compiler-experiment-begins.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Windows Phone Is Failing Because It’s Great

http://www.torontostandard.com/business/navneet-alang-windows-phone-is-failing-because-its-great/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 113 comments

Blackout Forces Fred Wilson to Pirate The Knicks. What Would Congress Think?

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/01/03/argghh-screwcable-feud-forces-fred-wilson-to-pirate-the-knicks-what-would-congress-think/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 89 comments

Web application development workflow with Node.js and Git

https://gelnior.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/web-application-development-workflow-with-node-js/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

Arnor — a marketplace for Django projects

http://arnor.io

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Why wasn't the Windows 95 shell prototyped on Windows NT?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/02/10252333.aspx

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace

https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

How to teach yourself to code in one month

https://generalassemb.ly/blog/on-learning-to-code-pt-3-resources-to-teach-you-ruby-in-a-month

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

World wide cost of living rankings for 2012

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

All Node.js servers are vulnerable to DoS

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/d34ed2ec3526db5a

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

4Clojure hits 100K solved problems.

http://www.4clojure.com/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Codecademy’s CodeYear Attracts 100,000 Aspiring Programmers In 48 Hours

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/codecademys-codeyear-attracts-100000-aspiring-programmers-in-48-hours/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For

http://searchengineland.com/google-yes-sponsored-post-campaign-was-ours-but-not-what-we-signed-up-for-106457

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Deploying C# / Mono on Heroku

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2012/01/experiment-deploying-c-mono-on-heroku.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

How Startups and a Government Agency Were Fooled by a Convicted Thief

http://muckraker.me/2012/01/03/the-masked-vc-how-ni-startups-and-a-government-agency-were-fooled-by-a-conman/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot

http://wekeroad.com/2012/01/03/rails-has-turned-me-into-a-cannibalizing-idiot/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

How Jeff Bezos advertised for the first Amazon employees (1994)

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/how-jeff-bezos-advertised-for-the-first-amazon-employees-1994-20101228/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

FreeDOS 1.1 is released

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=305444

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Tofu -- (Yet another) C web framework

https://github.com/AlexBio/Tofu

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments
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