top 50% 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

Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]

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

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 39 comments

SOPA is a Red Herring

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

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 43 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

The Fixie Bike Index

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/16013457968/the-fixie-bike-index

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 88 comments

New TeX engines compared: LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36/213

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 8 comments

If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit

http://searchengineland.com/blackout-your-site-without-hurting-seo-108302

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

Building Twitter bootstrap

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/building-twitter-bootstrap/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

More Water than Ever Found on the Moon

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2104483,00.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

Wozniak praising Android over iPhone limitations

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/17/woz_praises_android_highlights_iphone_limitations/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 64 comments

The Anonymous User Pattern

http://roshfu.com/2012/01/16/the-anonymous-user-pattern.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/01/4-warning-signs-that-agile-is-declining.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 93 comments

World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2012/01/world-ipv6-launch-on-june-6-2012-to-bring-permanent-ipv6-deployment/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/good-news-for-ec2-customers-amazon-may-launch-new-cloud-search-tomorrow/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Trigger Raises $1M From SV, Paul Graham etc For Cross-Platform Mobile Dev

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/trigger-raises-1m-from-sv-angel-paul-graham-and-others-to-make-cross-platform-mobile-development-effortless/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Codecademy Partners With The White House

http://blog.codecademy.com/announcing-meetups-and-our-partnership-with-t

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

Interactive Twitter Visualization: Election 2012 (made with d3.js)

http://hotspots.io/election

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Ubuntu: Java packages in Partner archive to be removed on 2012-02-16

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-January/001554.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

AirPlay running on Raspberry Pi

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/564

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Opposites Don’t Attract (And That’s Bad News)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/opposites-dont-attract-and-thats-bad-news/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

http://blog.eyallupu.com/2012/01/how-to-configure-nginx-and-uwsgi-to.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

It’s a torturous chaos until it isn’t

http://blog.asmartbear.com/chaos-at-start.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing.ars

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Matrix Multiplication in Clojure vs Numpy

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8899773/matrix-multiplication-in-clojure-vs-numpy

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

"When I see a business model with 5 revenue streams, I know they really have 0."

http://galondon.com/blog/alex-osterwalder-on-simple-business-models/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

ClojureDocs: Community-Powered Clojure Documentation and Examples

http://clojuredocs.org/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

On Blackout day, teach someone how to stop SOPA/PIPA

http://www.explainsopa.com/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Wikipedia blackout notice now on all English Wiki articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-pipasopa-wont-stop-us120117/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: We built a free Stop SOPA/PIPA notification bar for sites

http://www.hellobar.com/pipa

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments
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