top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-19

Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204616504577171060611948408-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html

15 years ago

698 upvotes – 337 comments

Maddox - I hope SOPA passes

http://maddox.xmission.com/

15 years ago

569 upvotes – 198 comments

A Word to the Resourceful

http://paulgraham.com/word.html

15 years ago

463 upvotes – 168 comments

The Trello Tech Stack

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

15 years ago

431 upvotes – 93 comments

Death sentence for Iranian web programmer

http://thenextweb.com/me/2012/01/19/death-sentence-for-iranian-programmer-accused-of-developing-software-used-by-porn-sites/

15 years ago

369 upvotes – 109 comments

Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

15 years ago

365 upvotes – 97 comments

Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/200

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 88 comments

Vim ported to iOS

http://applidium.com/en/applications/vim/

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 127 comments

Playing chicken with cat.jpg

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-with-cat-jpg.html

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 104 comments

How Google Code Search Worked

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 45 comments

The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA

http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 136 comments

Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it

http://broadmuse.com/piracy

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 317 comments

Rand Paul promises to filibuster PIPA

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/18/rand-paul-promises-to-filibuster-pipa/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 23 comments

The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial

http://xentac.net/2012/01/19/the-real-difference-between-git-and-mercurial.html

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 45 comments

Courtney Love does the math (2000)

http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/singleton/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 36 comments

This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)

http://jsrun.it/GeckoTang/4rXg/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 50 comments

Kodak files for bankruptcy

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/kodak-files-for-bankruptcy-2012-01-19?link=MW_pulse

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 70 comments

Julian Assange Rolling Stone interview

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assange-the-rolling-stone-interview-20120118

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 32 comments

Swizz Beats is the CEO of Megaupload

http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/19/swizz-beats-is-the-ceo-of-megaupload/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments
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