top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-09

A simple guide for getting started with git

http://rogerdudler.github.com/git-guide/

15 years ago

665 upvotes – 129 comments

The New Web Typography

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-fontbureau/index.html

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 132 comments

Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19531/hacked_memo_leaked_apple_nokia_rim_supply_backdoors_for_govt_intercept

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 53 comments

Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/09/reddit-founder-dns-hacker-and-other-sopa-critics-to-address-congress/

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 82 comments

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/

15 years ago

266 upvotes – 108 comments

In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab.htm

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 96 comments

Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes

http://holehouse.org/mlclass/

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 19 comments

Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/o9gq7/reddit_successfully_pressures_rep_paul_ryan_rwi/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 90 comments

The $40 Standup Desk

http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/01/09/the-40-standup-desk/

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 102 comments

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/01/uk-cabinet-office-betrayal-of-open-standards-confirmed/index.htm

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 57 comments

True Scala complexity

http://yz.mit.edu/wp/true-scala-complexity/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 148 comments

84% of the investment gains from hedge fund went to the managers

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/7VmpGHzmY3R

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (2006)

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/the_c_is_efficient_language_fa.php

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 127 comments

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

http://www.fastcompany.com/1806307/how-to-work-from-home-like-you-mean-it

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 73 comments

Twitter’s poor API documentation practices

http://gazit.me/2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

https://github.com/jorgebastida/glue

15 years ago

★ 2.5k Python BSD-3-Clause
163 upvotes – 32 comments

Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/01/09/finnish-operator-required-to-block-access-to-thepiratebay-among-others

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 57 comments

Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4765

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 9 comments

MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications

https://github.com/maccman/macgap

15 years ago

★ 3.5k Objective-C
144 upvotes – 35 comments
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