top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-01-04

A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/04/144636898/a-man-a-van-a-surprising-business-plan

15 years ago

I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83688294/

15 years ago

Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings-longer-than-23-characters

15 years ago

Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_gift/print.html

15 years ago

Why do we pay sales commissions?

http://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/

15 years ago

Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_is_going_to_mess_up_the_internet.php#.TwRySkFEmmQ.hackernews

15 years ago

A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of

http://prog21.dadgum.com/121.html

15 years ago

Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA

http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant-innovate-and-the-result-is-sopa/

15 years ago

Top TED Talks of 2011 To Inspire Tech Startups

http://blog.marksoper.net/Top-10-TED-Talks-of-2011-to-Inspire-Tech-Startups.html

15 years ago

Being recruited in the USA

http://pau.calepin.co/being-recruited-in-the-usa.html

15 years ago