top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-12

Android Design

http://developer.android.com/design/index.html

15 years ago

437 upvotes – 137 comments

The author of SOPA is a copyright violator

http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyright-whoops

15 years ago

383 upvotes – 39 comments

Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723&w=2

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 102 comments

Twss.js

https://github.com/DanielRapp/twss.js

15 years ago

★ 688 JavaScript MIT
305 upvotes – 47 comments

Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2165

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 151 comments

The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 86 comments

List of 61 senators refusing to meet and discuss PIPA/SOPA

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oe3mf/these_61_senators_are_refusing_to_meet_with_their/

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 20 comments

How rel=nofollow Works

http://luigimontanez.com/2012/how-rel-nofollow-works/

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 50 comments

Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

15 years ago

★ 2.8k VimL
201 upvotes – 58 comments

Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/01/12/reddit-user-ventures-to-the-daily-show-gets-jon-stewart-to-talk-sopa-on-air/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 62 comments

(Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders

http://css-tricks.com/better-tabs-with-round-out-borders/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 39 comments

MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/mpaa-attacks-ars-for-challenging-efforts-to-curb-content-theft.ars

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 14 comments

Relational shell programming

http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Fires Back at Twitter: You Took Yourself Out of Search

http://mashable.com/2012/01/11/google-twitter-search-3/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 114 comments

Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/12/if-facebook-wont-stop-sopa-we-can-do-it-for-them/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 18 comments

FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA

http://martinfowler.com/articles/pearson-sopa.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 8 comments

ThePirateBay.Org Is Immune from SOPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/04205617341/if-sopas-main-target-is-pirate-bay-its-worth-pointing-out-that-thepiratebayorg-is-immune-sopa.shtml

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

The Strange Case of John Dillinger and the Fraudulent Apple ID

http://programmingzen.com/2012/01/12/john-dillinger-apple-id/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

http://githire.com/about

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Stop looking for a cofounder

http://swombat.com/2012/1/12/stop-looking-for-cofounder

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 53 comments

A Depressive Journey With MongoDB

http://www.mengu.net/post/a-depressive-journey-with-mongodb

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

I open-sourced my EV Li-on Battery Management System

https://github.com/ricksta/openBMS

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Spend time learning, not searching - a directory for online learning resources.

http://www.skillpunch.com

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Allwinner A10: A GPL-compliant computer for $15

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/allwinner_a10_gplcompliant_computer_15

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

ACLU: 92% of Gitmo detainees were not Qaeda fighters. 86% turned in for a bounty

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/guantanamo-numbers

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

Android device as dev machine

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

EFF asks: Who's flying unmanned aircraft in the US?

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/who-flying-unmanned-aircraft-us

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Urban Airship to shut down SimpleGeo

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2012/01/12/update-on-our-plan-to-integrate-location-and-context-services-into-our-push-messaging-platform/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: I built a faster way to burn your money on Etsy.com

http://www.Scrollsy.com

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

CyanogenMod surpasses 1 million installations

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/CyanogenMod-surpasses-1-million-installations-1409652.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on Shootout

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

The bugfix that could make the Internet 5% faster

http://eduardo.cereto.net/the-bugfix-that-could-make-the-internet-faster

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Getting Started with Sublime Text 2

http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/01/12/getting-started-with-sublime-text-2/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

We made a JS utility for January 18th's SOPA blackout

http://sopablackout.org/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple becomes No. 3 PC maker in US with industry-leading 21% growth

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/11/apple_becomes_no_3_pc_maker_in_us_with_industry_leading_21_growth.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

I heard you like numbers... Numbers from 37signals

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3076-i-heard-you-like-numbers

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

I keep forgetting to use your app

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/01/i-keep-forgetting-to-use-your-app.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

The Race To Build A Star Trek-Worthy Medical Tricorder

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679101/the-race-to-build-a-star-trek-worthy-medical-tricorder

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

The Parable of The Wheel

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/11/the-parable-of-the-wheel/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments

The beginning of a standard for browser automation

http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/blog/2012/the-beginning-of-a-standard-for-browser-automation.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Bored last night. 3 hour project: Your Most Followed Followers

http://www.fruji.com

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments

C Preprocessor Hell

http://jacquesmattheij.com/C+Preprocessor+Hell

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 29 comments

Protect IP Author Senator Patrick Leahy Says 'Further Study' is Needed

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=721ddff6-3399-4d56-a966-bca3f848759b

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Behavior by Design

http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/01/behavior-by-design.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

Bitbucket Downtime Post-Mortem

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/01/12/follow-up-on-our-downtime-last-week/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bitbucket+%28Bitbucket%29

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 11 comments
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