top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-14

Schlep Blindness

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

15 years ago

604 upvotes – 181 comments

Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/abolish_the_dep.html

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 54 comments

Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy

http://bemmu.posterous.com/first-year-of-candy-japan

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 126 comments

The White House's Response to SOPA

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#/!/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet

15 years ago

290 upvotes – 148 comments

Search: .lenght - Github

https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&q=.lenght&repo=&langOverride=&x=0&y=0&start_value=1

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 102 comments

British student may be extradited to US on copyright charges

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/13/british-man-who-hosted-site-wi.html

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 79 comments

This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/this-is-why-you-dont-go-to-the-gym/251332/

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 121 comments

Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed

http://www.fastcompany.com/1808216/remain-diligent-sopa-and-pipa-must-be-squashed-not-changed

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 21 comments

Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge

http://www.startssl.com/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 37 comments

What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-everyone-in-sopa-debate-is-missing.html

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 78 comments

US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison

http://torrentfreak.com/us-authorities-silence-ninjavideo-founder-rush-her-to-prison-120113/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 154 comments

Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/under-voter-pressure-members-of-congress-backpedal-on-sopa.ars

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 35 comments

PyPy: Transactional Memory (II)

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/transactional-memory-ii.html

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dropbox-20120115,0,6720306,full.story

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 96 comments

Public datasets on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/datasets?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/the-dumbest-attack-on-the-netflix-free-ride-you-have-ever-read.ars

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 4 comments

Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty

http://corte.si/posts/code/reading-code.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not

http://andrewdumont.me/post/15813416151/pinterest-clone-pinspire

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 71 comments

The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form

http://physics.info/music/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments
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