top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-15

Programming prodigy passes away at 16

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/14/10158059-programming-prodigy-passes-away-at-16-hear-her-philosophy-of-life

15 years ago

436 upvotes – 114 comments

Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000

http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 73 comments

Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA

http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 155 comments

Learn C The Hard Way

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Who's looking for employment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467298

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 153 comments

Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/14/boing-boing-will-go-dark-on-ja.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 24 comments

What Jobs Do the Top 1% Have?

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-one-percent-occupations/index.html?ref=business

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 124 comments

Stop SOPA site template

http://www.zachstronaut.com/lab/text-shadow-box/stop-sopa.html

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 37 comments

A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering

http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

Military technology: Magic bullets

http://www.economist.com/node/21542716?frsc=dg%7Ca

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 87 comments

Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server

https://github.com/phusion/juvia#readme

15 years ago

★ 1k Ruby AGPL-3.0
131 upvotes – 26 comments

Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring

https://github.com/steelThread/redmon

15 years ago

★ 1.5k Ruby
128 upvotes – 10 comments

Color schemes I can feel

http://design-seeds.com

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

http://cherry.com/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 95 comments

Vi Illustrator

http://www.bilalquadri.com/villustrator/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-greatest-running-shoe-never-sold-01122012.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel

http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Reading list for distributed systems

http://reiddraper.github.com/distreader/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

Data Science Toolkit: free-as-in-speech Natural Language Processing & Geo tools

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/about

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

The Big List of Game Postmortems - from indie to AAA

http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Why SQL server was never ported to Unix

http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-to-linux/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

CSSrefresh - Automatically Refresh CSS files

http://cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468595

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

Livestream of the PennApps hackathon demos

http://www.livestream.com/pennapps

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Elements of Successful iPhone Games

http://diaryofanappdeveloper.tumblr.com/post/15891843100/week-1-research-elements-of-successful-iphone-games

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/14/uk-symantec-hacker-idUKTRE80D09T20120114

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Why iCloud won't beat Dropbox and the failure of Airdrop

http://asselinpaul.calepin.co/Apple%20is%20flawed.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

Linux Socket Programming By Example - broadcast example

http://alas.matf.bg.ac.rs/manuals/lspe/snode=116.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA

http://status.net/2012/01/14/identi-ca-blackout-18-jan-2012-8am-8pm-est-to-protest-sopapipa

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Blackout your WordPress site on January 18th

https://github.com/chrisguitarguy/WP-SOPA-Blackout

15 years ago

★ 12 PHP
56 upvotes – 5 comments

Stop the Presses: Essay Shows That Hard Work Can Be Unpleasant

http://diegobasch.com/stop-the-presses-essay-shows-that-hard-work-c

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

Shim: simultaneous, synced web surfing across a variety of devices and browsers

https://github.com/marstall/shim/

15 years ago

★ 773 JavaScript
54 upvotes – 2 comments

The Startup Dragon

http://wesleytansey.com/the-startup-dragon/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

OTR in Go

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/01/14/gootr.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites

http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Joor - A nice fluent Reflection API wrapper for Java

http://code.google.com/p/joor/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments
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