top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-17

Google will protest SOPA using home page

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57360223-261/google-will-protest-sopa-using-popular-home-page/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=title

15 years ago

502 upvotes – 104 comments

SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb.

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/01172012.html

15 years ago

483 upvotes – 56 comments

SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars

15 years ago

447 upvotes – 155 comments

Elsevier = Evil

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/elsevier_evil.php

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 66 comments

What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago

http://old.cdt.org/speech/cda/960203_48hrs_alert.html

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 42 comments

Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/16/copyright-king-why-the-i-have-a-dream-speech-still-isn-t-free

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 117 comments

Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

http://www.nltk.org/book?=

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 31 comments

Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click

http://www.grassroutes.us/sopa

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 48 comments

How to travel around the world for a year.

http://alexmaccaw.com/posts/how_to_travel_around_the_world

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 121 comments

SOPA is a Red Herring

http://blog.curry.com/stories/2012/01/16/sopaIsARedHerring.html

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 43 comments

Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]

http://opengeodata.org/google-ip-vandalizing-openstreetmap

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

https://hackpad.com

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 77 comments

The worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/01/lessons-for-kickstarter-creators-from-the-worst-project-i-ever-funded-on-kickstarter.html

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 66 comments

How I Program Stuff

http://rdegges.com/how-i-program-stuff

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 52 comments

Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts

http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/15687406657/introducing-postmark-inbound-easily-parse-replies-other

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/17/2714044/google-contractors-sacked-vandalism-openstreetmap

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 108 comments

Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo

http://bootstrap.io/Demo/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 59 comments

Yahoo Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120117006946/en/Yahoo%21-Announces-Resignation-Jerry-Yang

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 80 comments

The "Army of One" entrepreneur

http://swombat.com/2012/1/17/army-of-one-entrepreneur

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 51 comments

Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html?2011

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 72 comments
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