top 20 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

486 upvotes – 100 comments

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

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

15 years ago

374 upvotes – 153 comments

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

357 upvotes – 109 comments

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

300 upvotes – 126 comments

Why do we pay sales commissions?

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

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 113 comments

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

250 upvotes – 134 comments

A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of

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

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 154 comments

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

236 upvotes – 40 comments

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

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Being recruited in the USA

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

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 146 comments

Apple ][ game server

http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 52 comments

Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign

https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/NAWunDzJSHC

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 63 comments

Letter from Orwell to his publisher regarding 1984

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/12/bag-of-wind.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

Using AI to design board games

http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/6931/ai-game-design-the-shibumi-challenge

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Chrome HTTPS Address Bar Spoofing

http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/01/google-chrome-https-address-bar.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 4 comments

E-mail is the Universal Platform

http://blog.contactually.com/2012/01/e-mail-is-the-universal-platform/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 59 comments

Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/ifttt-a-glue-gun-for-sticking-together-your-web-sites-raises-1-5m-seed-round-from-top-investors/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Piracy is not a problem; SOPA is not a solution

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/piracy_not_problem_sopa_not_solution

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 77 comments

Migrating away from Puppet to cdist (Python3)

http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/migrating-away-from-puppet-to-cdist/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse

http://searchengineland.com/how-rick-santorum-is-making-his-google-problem-worse-106665

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 120 comments
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