top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-18

Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

http://tumblr.amitgupta.com/post/16079119166/many-of-you-have-asked-so-heres-whats-going-on

15 years ago

1179 upvotes – 100 comments

Why I'm a Pirate

http://ploum.net/post/im-a-pirate

15 years ago

857 upvotes – 514 comments

No New Accounts Today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174

15 years ago

718 upvotes – 94 comments

Stop SOAP

http://stopsoap.com/

15 years ago

598 upvotes – 67 comments

Congressman blacks out his official .gov website

http://blumenauer.house.gov/

15 years ago

587 upvotes – 38 comments

Wikipedia blackout page

http://en.wikipedia.org

15 years ago

507 upvotes – 113 comments

Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/sopa-and-pipa?playlist=American+Civic

15 years ago

491 upvotes – 65 comments

Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

15 years ago

482 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident

http://jeffdechambeau.com/friending-fast-and-slow.html

15 years ago

349 upvotes – 127 comments

I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows

http://littlebitofcode.com/2012/01/18/im-pirating-the-next-version-of-windows

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 258 comments

The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA

http://thedailywtf.com/

15 years ago

324 upvotes – 47 comments

The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA

https://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt?

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 174 comments

Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb.html

15 years ago

296 upvotes – 126 comments

Google logo blacked out on all search results (in US)

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hacker+news

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 44 comments

Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.

http://www.reddit.com/

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 32 comments

Hacker News Blacking Out Logo

http://news.ycombinator.com/?sopa

15 years ago

252 upvotes – 47 comments

Fax Your Representatives to stop SOPA / PIPA

http://www.hellofax.com/StopSOPA

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 42 comments

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms-0118.html

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 31 comments

Senator Marco Rubio drops support for PIPA

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarcoRubio/posts/340889625936408

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 41 comments

Wordpress Blacked Out

http://wordpress.com/

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 12 comments

SICP is being taught again at MIT

http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.S184/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 37 comments

Wired Magazine Blacks Out

http://www.wired.com/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 10 comments

What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying Today About SOPA/PIPA

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/01/what-i-wish-wikipedia-and-othe.php

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 55 comments

Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web

http://www.igvita.com/2012/01/18/building-a-modern-web-stack-for-the-realtime-web/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 33 comments

Boing Boing blackout message

http://boingboing.net/503

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 23 comments

Mozilla blacks out

http://www.mozilla.org/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 6 comments

Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 74 comments

4chan "blacking out" (or, "spoilering") all comments as SOPA protest

http://boards.4chan.org/co/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

C# to take a breaking change in version 5

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8898925/is-there-a-reason-for-cs-reuse-of-the-variable-in-a-foreach

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 26 comments

WSJ comes out for SOPA

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57361059-261/wsj-comes-out-for-sopa-more-lawmakers-pull-support/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 84 comments

FARK has gone white to "support" SOPA/PIPA

http://www.fark.com/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 6 comments

Impressive SOPA blackout

http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/08/07/stupid-cakephp-controller-tricks/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves

http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Quadtrees-and-Hilbert-Curves

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

SOPA/PIPA: More than 250k tweets / hr

http://hotspots.io/sopa

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Dear Tech Community, We Have A Communication Problem

http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/16070447348/dear-tech-community-we-have-a-communication-problem

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

Transparent Aluminum

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/17/transparent-aluminum/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Flickr goes creative for SOPA blackout

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/18/flickr-joins-sopa-protest-lets-users-black-out-photos/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

SEO for Assholes

http://startupdispatch.com/opinion/seo-for-dicks/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/coding-fun-microsofts-visual-studio-badges-leaderboard

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/18/tech/sopa-blackouts/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/evolution-of-multicellularity/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

With Today's Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sopa_awareness_goes_mainstream.php#.TxcEvwx9Sco.hackernews

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9844.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Csvkit - command line utilities for working with csv files

http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

The V8 Myth: Why JavaScript is not a Worthy Competitor

http://blogs.adobe.com/avikchaudhuri/2012/01/17/the-v8-myth-why-javascript-is-not-a-worthy-competitor/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments

Gödel, Escher, Bach

http://www.hn-books.com/Books/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach.htm

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Official PHP site will have a new design

http://prototype.php.net/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

How we made our iPad demo video on the cheap

http://blog.anideo.com/how-we-made-our-ipad-demo

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

http://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

WordPress.com SOPA blackout page

http://wordpress.com/#fresh

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Backbone.js by example

http://www.javageneration.com/?p=839

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

The SOPA Blackout Roundup

http://chrisacky.posterous.com/sopa-highights-the-roundup

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

SOPA SEO: Googlebot to crawl at slower rate today

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/iUN5MGJxEh9

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Websites of SOPA-supporting congressmen redirect to Protest SOPA

http://onepagerapp.com/tm72

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments
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