top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-16

Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/16/wikipedia-will-shut-down-for-24-hours-on-wednesday-to-protest-against-sopa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

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SOPA 'shelved' until consensus is found

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/putting_sopa_on_a_shelf034765.php

15 years ago

JSON will be a core type in PostgreSQL 9.2

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/244-Under-the-wire.html

15 years ago

Website outages and blackouts the right way

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8vjZ5fmB

15 years ago

Making Love to Webkit

http://acko.net/blog/making-love-to-webkit/

15 years ago

Trust is Fragile

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3078-trust-is-fragile

15 years ago

On the Usability of Codecademy

http://programmingzen.com/2012/01/16/on-the-usability-of-codecademy/

15 years ago

What It’s Really Like to Work at Google

http://www.lockergnome.com/social/2012/01/16/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-google/

15 years ago

Commenting, community deterioration, and Hacker News

http://jseliger.com/2012/01/15/commenting-community-deterioration-and-hacker-news/

15 years ago

Login to your Google account by scanning a QR code

https://accounts.google.com/sesame

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Nearly 1000 of NY Tech protesting Senators on PIPA this Wed - join us, Valley

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113164038788726940319/posts/5sxZg1pHgQ7

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Zappos.com customer database compromised

http://www.zappos.com/passwordchange

15 years ago

An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html

15 years ago

Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things

http://andrewhy.de/extreme-minimalism/

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Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong

http://my-inner-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/many-core-processors-everything-you.html

15 years ago

Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

http://www.leandomainsearch.com

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Show HN: Collection of CSS Creations

http://cssdeck.com

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Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr

http://blog.picplum.com/startups-dont-host-your-blog-on-tumblr/

15 years ago

Disassembly of Pokémon Red

https://bitbucket.org/iimarckus/pokered/src

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Harvard Statistics 110: Introduction to Probability, on iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/statistics-110-introduction/id495213607

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FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-16-FreeBSD-now-on-all-EC2-instance-types.html

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Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx

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A 14-year-old could build 1998's Google using her Dad's credit card

http://paulbohm.com/2012/01/16/a-14-year-old-could-build-1998s-google-using-her-dads-credit-card/

15 years ago

A Design Primer for Engineers

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/01/16/a_design_primer_for_engineers.html

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Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult

http://arstechnica.com/#!/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-secure-boot-on-arm-making-linux-installs-difficult.ars

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AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/aws-free-usage-tier-now-includes-microsoft-windows-on-ec2.html

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Android Ice Cream Sandwich PSD startkit

http://www.androiddesign.info

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Sorry state of dynamic libraries on Linux

http://www.macieira.org/blog/2012/01/sorry-state-of-dynamic-libraries-on-linux

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Data Mining: Finding Similar Items and Users

http://bionicspirit.com/blog/2012/01/16/cosine-similarity-euclidean-distance.html

15 years ago

Show HN: DirtyShare, Pure JavaScript P2P File Sharing (in Node.js + Socket.io)

http://gun.io/blog/dirtyshare-pure-javascript-peer-to-peer-p2p-file-sharing-nodejs-socketio/

15 years ago

Purely Functional Retrogames

http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html

15 years ago

Blogging With Emacs

http://twitch.nervestaple.com/2011/10/09/blogging_with_emacs/

15 years ago

The iOS Beginner blog series

http://kentnguyen.com/ios/ios-beginner-series-intro/

15 years ago

The Internet wins: SOPA has been shelved, but we must remain vigilant

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114045-the-internet-wins-sopa-has-been-shelved-but-we-must-remain-vigilant

15 years ago

Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011

http://stackexchange.com/state-of-the-stack

15 years ago

Hiring your first employee- a UK guide

http://blog.crispyfriedsoftware.com/post/14179700393/hiring-your-first-uk-employee

15 years ago

Using Hadoop and HBase with Clojure

http://twitch.nervestaple.com/2012/01/12/clojure-hbase/

15 years ago

Sarah Lacy launches PandoDaily (with former Techcrunch writers)

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/

15 years ago

Automatically populating .ssh/known_hosts

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-16-automatically-populating-ssh-known-hosts.html

15 years ago

Faster TDD feedback with tmux, tslime.vim, and turbux.vim

http://joshuadavey.com/post/15619414829/faster-tdd-feedback-with-tmux-tslime-vim-and

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JQ.Mobi Is A Mobile-Optimized HTML5 Rewrite Of the JQuery Framework

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/01/jqmobi-is-a-mobile-optimized-h.php#.TxRDA8sY9vc.hackernews

15 years ago

A Million Pageviews, Thousands of Dollars Poorer, and Still Countlessly Richer

http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-dollars-poorer-and-still-countlessly-richer/

15 years ago