top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-11

Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

https://plus.google.com/u/0/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fURGt

15 years ago

536 upvotes – 154 comments

This photograph is free

http://standblog.org/blog/post/2012/01/11/This-photograph-is-free

15 years ago

530 upvotes – 143 comments

This Photograph Is Not Free

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/10/this-photograph-is-not-free/

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 254 comments

I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

http://theappifier.com

15 years ago

342 upvotes – 191 comments

Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/11/why-google-and-facebook-need-to-go-dark-to-protest-sopa/

15 years ago

339 upvotes – 91 comments

Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

http://thesash.me/how-google-got-its-groove-back

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 107 comments

Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/01/11/small-teams-are-dramatically-more-efficient-than-large-teams/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 83 comments

ClojureScript One

http://clojurescriptone.com/

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 45 comments

Mafia becomes "Italy's largest bank" in aftermath of financial crisis

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/10/us-italy-mafia-idUSTRE8091YX20120110

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 55 comments

Designing Great API Docs

http://blog.parse.com/2012/01/11/designing-great-api-docs/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 19 comments

In which Eben Moglen calls out a reporter for having Facebook

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/in-which-eben-moglen-like-legit-yells-at-me-for-being-on-facebook/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 105 comments

Hidden features of Python

http://stackoverflow.com/q/101268/184

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 7 comments

The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn

http://danwin.com/2012/01/the-sopa-debate-and-how-its-affected-by-congresss-understanding-of-child-porn/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

UK Schools ICT to be replaced by computer science programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 70 comments

Convore (YCW11) is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/10/convore-grove-io/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 56 comments

China Builds 30-Story Hotel In Just 15 Days

http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/11/china-builds-30-story-hotel-in-just-15-days-video/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 68 comments

Jmpress.js - a jQuery version of impress.js

http://shama.github.com/jmpress.js/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

It’s time to place the web in safer hands

http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/opinion/2012/01/its-time-to-place-the-web-in-safer-hands/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Research Bought, Then Paid For: Open Access to Science Under Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets, Study Shows

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-010

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

WordPress The Latest Tech Company To Come Out Strongly Against SOPA/PIPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120110/17470317370/wordpress-latest-tech-company-to-come-out-strongly-against-sopapipa.shtml

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

"Ender's Game" movie happening

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047827

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

Victorinox squeezes 1TB of high-speed storage into a Swiss Army Knife

http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/10/victorinox-squeezes-1tb-of-high-speed-storage-into-a-swiss-army-knife/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Why I use vim

http://michaeltrier.com/2010/12/05/why-i-use-vim/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Fight against Corruption in India using technology

http://corruptiontrak.com/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

How we sold a couple hundred million dollars of software in Japan

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2012/01/11/crash-goes-to-japan-part-1/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Martin Fowler: The Fallacies and Reprocussions of Diversity Imbalance

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DiversityImbalance.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 166 comments

The demographics of social gamers are closer to gambling than gaming

http://altdevblogaday.com/2012/01/11/social-gamers-are-gamblers/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

How To Think About Algorithms [pdf]

http://www.mat.unb.br/clausahm/area/AnAlg-07.2d/Referencias/HowToThinkAboutAlgorithms-Edmonds.pdf

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

The Hungry Programmer

http://jstorimer.com/2012/01/09/the-hungry-programmer.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

TeX and LaTeX in industry applications

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40720/213

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

How Hacker News hit us with 10 000 unique visitors in 10 hours

http://whoapi.com/blog/554/how-hacker-news-hit-us-with-10-000-unique-visitors-in-10-hours/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Pro-SOPA Comcast just implemented SOPA-incompatible DNSSEC

http://www.itworld.com/security/240789/sopa-might-force-choice-stop-cyberspies-bank-robbers-and-id-thieves-or-stop-illegal-

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

How Intel’s Medfield will dismantle ARM

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/113123-how-intels-medfield-will-dismantle-arm

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 67 comments

Reddit to Go Dark to Protest SOPA. Right on

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1047&doc_id=237622&

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

Open science: why is it so hard?

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/01/10/open-science-is-hard

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 59 comments

EFF: Biometrics in Argentina, Mass Surveillance as a State Policy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/biometrics-argentina-mass-surveillance-state-policy

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Lexical vs Dynamic scope in clojure

http://info.rjmetrics.com/blog/bid/51652/Lexical-vs-Dynamic-Scope-in-Clojure

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Programmers: The New Political Elite

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/meet-the-new-political-elite-computer-programmers/2010/12/20/gIQAfcg9nP_blog.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code

http://www.giftrocket.com/why-marketing-bd-should-learn-to-code

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

Rails, RVM, RSpec & Jenkins

http://rails-jenkins.danseaver.com

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

PHP 5.3.9 released

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Bit Twiddling Hacks

http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments
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