top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-20

Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html

15 years ago

2060 upvotes – 665 comments

The next SOPA

http://www.marco.org/2012/01/20/the-next-sopa

15 years ago

558 upvotes – 165 comments

Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10190893-jon-stewart-dramatic-chipmunk-call-out-congressional-nerd-bashing

15 years ago

416 upvotes – 156 comments

Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload

http://torrentfreak.com/feds-please-return-my-personal-files-megaupload-120120/

15 years ago

390 upvotes – 206 comments

MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/sopa_busted.gif

15 years ago

345 upvotes – 37 comments

Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup.

http://answers.onstartups.com/a/23326/8362

15 years ago

335 upvotes – 90 comments

Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-pimps-it-old-school-with-a-pricey-text-adventure-game.ars

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill

http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 76 comments

Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial)

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Yesod-tutorial-for-newbies/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 60 comments

Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 56 comments

Why the feds smashed Megaupload

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 69 comments

SenseiDB: Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database

http://senseidb.com/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide]

http://www.jasonshen.com/2012/how-to-be-relentlessly-resourceful/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 38 comments

Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy

http://expletiveinserted.com/2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-payments-service-wheres-the-catch/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/20/senator-harry-reid-caves-pipa-postponed/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 26 comments

Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google

http://searchengineland.com/too-many-ads-above-the-fold-now-penalized-by-googles-page-layout-algo-108613

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

DOJ Didn't Need SOPA to Shutdown "rogue site" MegaUpload

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/20/department-of-justice-doj-dept-of-justice-megaupload-piracy-sopa-pipa/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-google-accounts-require-gmail-and.html

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 107 comments

Dreamhost asking users to change passwords after database breach

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-passwords-due-to-security-issue/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

REST worst practices

http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 64 comments
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