top 50% 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

Show HN: During the last week, I built a SPDY server.

https://github.com/jonasschneider/momentum

15 years ago

★ 140 Ruby
85 upvotes – 19 comments

Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0

http://nerds.airbnb.com/upgrading-airbnb-from-rails-23-to-rails-30

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Google demotes Chrome in search results over pay-for-post promo

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57351705-93/google-demotes-chrome-in-search-results-over-pay-for-post-promo/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

Defeat facial recognition

http://www.cvdazzle.com/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Could Coding Become the Next Mass Profession?

http://also.roybahat.com/post/15307941431/could-coding-be-the-next-mass-profession

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 101 comments

What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Vi Hart and Khan Academy Join Forces [video]

http://youtu.be/e1a6Bxc0OYQ

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=prozac-extinguishes-anxiety-rejuvenating-brain

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Markdown Editor

http://joncom.be/experiments/markdown-editor/edit/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

The 20% Project (like Google) In My Class

http://educationismylife.com/the-20-project-like-google-in-my-class/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Attacking Application Exceptions is Important

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3070-why-attacking-application-exceptions-is-important

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Microphone turns any surface into a multitouch interface

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/111847-microphone-turns-any-surface-into-a-multitouch-interface

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

GoDaddy support for SOPA aftermath - daily domain transfer impact graph

http://entaroadun.github.com/dns_raphael_vis/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Microsoft sues UK retailer Comet for selling over 94k counterfeit Windows CDs

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/01/04/microsoft-sues-uk-retailer-comet-for-allegedly-selling-over-94000-counterfeit-windows-cds/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

How to be interesting

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2011/11/30/how-to-be-interesting/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA

http://sopatrack.com/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Is Foursquare in trouble?

http://gerger.co/yalimslodge/2012/01/04/foursquare-is-in-trouble/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 50 comments

Joyent unveils HTTP Signature auth scheme for REST APIs

http://joyeur.com/2012/01/03/a-bit-more-about-the-new-joyent-cloud-api/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Classes for javascript that you'd actually use

http://github.com/jayferd/pjs

15 years ago

★ 197 JavaScript MIT
52 upvotes – 23 comments

Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth

http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2012/01/03/cross-browser-html5-progress-bars-in-depth/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Yahoo Appoints Scott Thompson CEO

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120104005813/en/Yahoo%21-Appoints-Scott-Thompson-Chief-Executive-Officer

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

Building a Riak Cluster On Brightbox cloud

http://brightbox.com/blog/2012/01/04/riak-cluster/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Console productivity hack: Discover the frequent; then make it the easy

http://matt.might.net/articles/console-hacks-exploiting-frequency/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

The Myth of 100% Utilization

http://manage.techwell.com/articles/weekly/management-myth-1-myth-100-utilization

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments

The economic incentive to violate the GPL

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9387.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 15 comments

The Unsustainability of Never-ending Workplace Marathons

http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/sprinting-marathons/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

[Emacs]Org-Mode « Musings of a Software Engineering Student

http://nflath.com/2010/03/org-mode-2/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 3 comments

Credit Karma Launches Free Credit Monitoring, Enrolls 100,000 Users In A Day

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/credit-karma-launches-free-credit-monitoring-enrolls-100000-users-in-a-day/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments

MITx: Can Higher Learning Be Made Habit Forming?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/01/03/mitx-can-higher-learning-be-made-habit-forming/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments
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