top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-08

List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

http://www.sopaopera.org

15 years ago

Bootstrap for Facebook apps

http://ckrack.github.com/fbootstrapp?

15 years ago

Feynman on explanations

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/99c/transcript_richard_feynman_on_why_questions/#thingrow_t3_99c

15 years ago

Introducing "Python for Android"

http://txzone.net/2012/01/introducing-python-for-android/

15 years ago

Philosopher invents clever iPhone case

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1250439912/popsockets-iphone-case-it-pops-props-kicks-and-cli

15 years ago

CNN covers SOPA on homepage

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/06/tech/web/sopa-web-piracy-act/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

15 years ago

NGINX takes 2nd place in Web Servers from Microsoft IIS

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/nginx-takes-2nd-place-in-web-servers-from-microsoft-iis/10101

15 years ago

Tell HN: Frustrated and feeling pretty useless at this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439277

15 years ago

Why I switched from Ruby back to C++

http://chrismdp.github.com/2012/01/why-i-switched-from-ruby-back-to-c-plus-plus/

15 years ago

Make HTTP requests from your browser

http://hurl.it/?

15 years ago

Tools I Use - tmux

http://rdegges.com/tools-i-use-tmux

15 years ago

The myth of Japan's failure

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-true-story-of-japans-economic-success.html?pagewanted=print

15 years ago

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig (2001)

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

15 years ago

Living in China, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/o7t40/as_someone_living_in_china_let_me_tell_you_what/

15 years ago

Hidden Features of Java

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15496/hidden-features-of-java

15 years ago

Hidden features of C#

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c

15 years ago

Resources to Hack Design

http://jamie-davidson.com/2012/01/resources-to-hack-design/

15 years ago

Android app scans products, reveals SOPA support status of creator

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.boycottsopa.android

15 years ago

WebGL Nyan cat

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6213850/WebGL/nyanCat/nyan.html

15 years ago

U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/us-government-calls-censor-twitter-threaten-free-speech

15 years ago

The Invention of Waterloo (Canada’s Technology Triangle)

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2012.01-cities-the-invention-of-waterloo

15 years ago

How Chicken Scheme compiles to C

http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-compilation-process

15 years ago

The Development of the C Language

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

15 years ago

The GitHub Job Interview

http://blog.gigantt.com/2011/12/github-job-interview.html

15 years ago

Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228441.700-scrunch-time-the-peculiar-physics-of-crumpled-paper.html?full=true

15 years ago

Top Ubuntu Software Centre app downloads for December 2011

https://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/01/top-10-ubuntu-software-centre-app-downloads-for-december-2011/

15 years ago

Get a Midlife

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/sunday-review/get-a-midlife.html?_r=2&hp&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

A Collection of Exercises for Learning Erlang (Or Any Other Language)

http://codyrioux.github.com/a_collection_of_exercises_for_learning_erlang/

15 years ago

Show HN: Veneer, modal dialogs in 75 lines of JavaScript

http://adeel.github.com/veneer/

15 years ago

Building the Team That Built IBM's Watson

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/jobs/building-the-watson-team-of-scientists.html

15 years ago

Always Innovating HDMI dongle brings Android to your 'dumb TV'

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/07/always-innovating-hdmi-dongle-android-tv-video/

15 years ago

What’s the worst thing that can happen?

http://leostartsup.com/2012/01/whats-the-worst-thing-that-can-happen/

15 years ago

Want A Great Team? Focus On Talent, Not Hiring

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/08/talent-not-hiring/

15 years ago