top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-06

Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis

http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html

15 years ago

329 upvotes – 69 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/01/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Fountain-Codes

15 years ago

306 upvotes – 62 comments

Free Programming Ebooks

http://citizen428.net/blog/2010/08/12/30-free-programming-ebooks/

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 24 comments

How Trello is different

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 130 comments

Visitor.js

http://www.visitorjs.com/details

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 92 comments

How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 118 comments

Open Source Visitor.js

https://github.com/codejoust/visitor.js

15 years ago

★ 40
198 upvotes – 52 comments

Minimum Viable SEO

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/15403657245/minimum-viable-seo

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 67 comments

SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sopa-supporting_news_outlets_arent_covering_sopa_s.php

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 64 comments

Quick Salary Tip for Software Engineers

http://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2011/12/quick-salary-tip-for-software-engineers.html

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 110 comments

Hackruiter (YC S10) Launches Hacker School

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/06/sv-angel-and-founder-collective-give-hackruiter-200k-for-its-hacker-school/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 81 comments

Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120105/18151717292/al-gore-comes-out-against-sopapipa.shtml

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

Roll your own Unix

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 17 comments

GAGA-2

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/gaga-2.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 21 comments

Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mayor-bloomberg-will-learn-how-to-write-code-in-2012.php

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 38 comments

Iran to Replace "The Internet" with "Halal Intranet"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142713916386248.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 92 comments

This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

The Path to Hacker School

http://unschooled.org/2012/06/the-path-to-hacker-school/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

Microsoft suggests customer donate extra X-Box they sent him.

http://consumerist.com/2011/12/microsoft-spreads-the-holiday-spirit-by-telling-me-to-donate-extra-xbox-at-their-expense.html

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

Farewell to MIT

http://www.evanjones.ca/farewell-mit.html

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 31 comments

Steve Wozniak's FusionIO: 1 Billion IOPS with software improvement

https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2686627/fusion-io-one-billion-iops

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

Learning From The Masters: Level Design In The Legend Of Zelda

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6582/learning_from_the_masters_level_.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraFeatureArticles+%28Gamasutra+Feature+Articles%29

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/kahneman-quiz-201112.print

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 118 comments

Mathematicians Solve Minimum Sudoku Problem

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27469/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

All Major Labels Are Suing Grooveshark

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/new-lawsuit-means-all-major-labels-are-suing-grooveshark/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 96 comments

Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity

http://takemetosiliconvalley.com/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

Unix is digital clay - Matt Might

http://matt.might.usesthis.com/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Play a Ruby + AI Coding Game in Your Browser via Bloc

http://www.trybloc.com/courses/ruby-warrior

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: How can I self-evaluate my programming skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433311

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

Clint, Command Line Library for Python

http://www.nicosphere.net/clint-command-line-library-for-python/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft patents "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-patents-avoid-ghetto-feature-for-gps-devices/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

Jaws: HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library

http://jawsjs.com/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

The limited world of iOS's auto-renewable subscriptions

http://www.marco.org/2012/01/06/autorenewable-subscription-restrictions

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

New Chrome Beta release renders web pages as you type, screens downloads

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/speed-and-security.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

The 14 year old boy from Malawi who taught himself to build windmills

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/movingwindmills/moving-windmills-documentary-film

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Courtside.me

https://github.com/myusuf3/courtside

15 years ago

★ 87 JavaScript MIT
62 upvotes – 26 comments

The Demise of the Public Library

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/the-demise-of-the-public-library/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 60 comments

Whatsapp security hole allows changing status message of other users

http://whatsappstatus.net/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

https://github.com/jimrubenstein/php-profiler

15 years ago

★ 266 PHP
56 upvotes – 20 comments

App Engine datastore: 1 year, 100,000 apps, 0% downtime

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-birthday-high-replication.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

An actually usable .NET virtual machine in javascript

https://github.com/mkol/il2js

15 years ago

★ 77 C#
55 upvotes – 24 comments

Nginx 0mq transport layer for communicating with upstream servers

https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_zeromq

15 years ago

★ 267 C BSD-2-Clause
52 upvotes – 23 comments

Crafting the worst interview process in 8 easy steps

http://pennyhacks.com/2012/01/06/crafting-the-worst-interview-process-in-8-easy-steps/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

Red Hat touts Raleigh, NC as an open-source leader

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/06/1758019/city-red-hat-tout-raleigh-as-open.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

The Documentation Dilemma

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3073-the-documentation-dilemma

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Flotype (YC W11)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/andreessen-horowitz-salesforce-put-1-4m-in-real-time-messaging-infrastructure-startup-flotype/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Apple Prepares Bid For EPL TV Rights

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/futuresport/201201/ipitch-apple-prepares-bid-epl-tv-rights

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments
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