top 50% 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

Anonymous strikes back: takes down DoJ, Universal, RIAA and MPAA sites

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/anonymous-strikes-back-by-taking-down-doj-universal-records-20120119/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-announces-ibooks-2-to-reinvent-textbooks.ars

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 181 comments

Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.

http://quixeychallenge.com

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Machine Learning on the Cheap and Easy

http://thunderboltlabs.com/posts/machine-learning-on-the-cheap-and-easy

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 15 comments

Redditor Dr. Michael Ham announces his candidacy for US senate (New Mexico)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ompzy/i_am_a_long_time_redditor_who_wants_to_take_our/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/19/firefox-users-engage-congress-sopa-strike-stats/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

Larry Page: Google+ now has 90 million users globally

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/01/19/larry-page-google-now-has-90-million-users/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

Idea reach and the cofounder myth

http://swombat.com/2012/1/19/idea-reach-cofounder-myth

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Jvm performance tuning (notes)

http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2012/twitter_jvm_tuning.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

To Catch a Spammer

http://blackhat.me/to-catch-a-spammer/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Hollywood fights Internet protests with... TV ad, billboard, radio spot

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/hollywood-fights-internet-protest-with-tv-ad-billboard.ars

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Summify acquired by Twitter

http://blog.summify.com/2012/01/19/summify-joins-the-flock-at-twitter/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Idris - pure functional programming language with dependent types

http://idris-lang.org/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)

http://engineering.webengage.com/2012/01/19/how-not-to-do-url-redirects-the-way-quora-does/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments

Page layout algorithm improvement

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Rekindling (on my experience with burnout)

http://nate.io/post/16101254267/rekindling

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Windows drops to No. 3 cash-cow status in Microsoft' latest quarter

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-drops-to-no-3-cash-cow-status-in-microsoft-latest-quarter/11696

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple unveils iTunes U for iPad

http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/19/apple-unveils-itunes-u-app-for-ipad/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

http://autoglance.com/search/#Acura,tl,50,10003

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments
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