top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-13

Google, what were you thinking?

http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/

15 years ago

751 upvotes – 143 comments

Google's Kenyan ripoff?

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/13/google-fraudulently-solicits-f.html

15 years ago

457 upvotes – 99 comments

Google responds to the Mocality blog post

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115264064268941645500/posts/WfALKwfmCGJ

15 years ago

380 upvotes – 127 comments

My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought

http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/01/my-call-to-senator-schumers-office-on-pipa-its-so-much-worse-than-i-thought/

15 years ago

344 upvotes – 118 comments

DuckDuckGo gets a new look

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news

15 years ago

331 upvotes – 142 comments

New York City gets a Software Engineering High School

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/13.html

15 years ago

329 upvotes – 122 comments

Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/15782716917/coding-skill-and-the-decline-of-stagnation

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 195 comments

Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

http://paulgraham.com/vw.html

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 62 comments

Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds

http://blog.rodneyfolz.com/circumventing-the-no-fly-list-in-thirty-secon

15 years ago

289 upvotes – 154 comments

Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget

http://holykaw.alltop.com/bill-gates-is-better-than-batman-infographic

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 103 comments

Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 131 comments

Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 27 comments

Twitter Bootstrap Generator

http://www.martinbean.co.uk/bootstrap-generator/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 48 comments

The Rise of the New Groupthink

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 80 comments

What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature

http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/bagelman.html

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 42 comments

How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

http://justinvincent.com/page/1790/how-i-converted-my-subscription-site-from-paypal-to-stripe-in-2-days

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 59 comments

How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month

http://eddychan.com/post/15775730174/how-i-learnt-enough-python-django-to-be-dangerous-in-1

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 55 comments

How I got into MIT when I was 14

http://laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/lovely-way-to-learn.html

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 105 comments

Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout

http://www.wikipediablackout.com/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 24 comments

The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/the-elephant-in-the-room-google-monoculture.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 85 comments

Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?

http://www.djangohire.com/a/jbb/job-details/612877

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 59 comments

DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57358947-261/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa-victory-for-opponents/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459966

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

How Copyright Industries Con Congress

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/how-copyright-industries-con-congress/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 8 comments

My Recent Experience with PayPal Customer Service.

http://christianowens.com/post/15771850658/my-recent-experience-with-paypal-customer-service

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

My Recent Nine Months as an Indie Developer

http://www.eiswuxe.de/looking-back-my-recent-nine-months-as-an-indie-developer/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

The World is Full of Real People

http://jumpstartlab.com/news/archives/2012/01/13/the-world-is-full-of-real-people/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 63 comments

Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18

http://nytm.org/sos/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Codemasters are on the scrounge

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2012/01/codemasters-are-on-scrounge.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images

http://gethopper.com

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

My thoughts on why I will not call my business a startup again

http://pakorabutty.tumblr.com/post/15771767131

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India

http://www.nature.com/news/totally-drug-resistant-tb-emerges-in-india-1.9797

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

Homeless student is Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/homeless-student-is-intel-science-talent-search-semifinalist-20120113/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

When GitHub kills Open Source

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2012/01/13/2012-the-year-of-uncollaborative-development-or-when-github-kills-open-source/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

MongoDB on AWS: a whitepaper from Amazon

http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: A JavaScript interpreter written in Ruby

http://github.com/charliesome/twostroke

15 years ago

★ 302 JavaScript MIT
75 upvotes – 27 comments

20 Great Sites to Learn the Ins and Outs of Video Game Design

http://www.videogamedesignschools.net/20-great-sites-to-learn-the-ins-and-outs-of-video-game-design/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 1 comments

Parse offers one-click migration for SimpleGeo Storage customers.

https://parse.com/simplegeo

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/to_find_happiness_forget_about.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

PIPA's Own Sponsors Backing Off Bill; Ask Senate To Hold Off On Voting

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120113/15120617405/pipas-own-sponsors-backing-off-bill-ask-senate-to-hold-off-voting.shtml

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

GitHub is a fish bowl

http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/github-is-a-fish-bowl

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-honeybee-deaths-linked-seed-insecticide.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

PIPA Senate whip count

http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act_Senate_whip_count

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Flake: A Decentralized, K-Ordered Unique ID Generator in Erlang

http://blog.boundary.com/2012/01/12/Flake-A-decentralized-k-ordered-id-generation-service-in-Erlang.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments
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