top 50% 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

How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)

http://zenhabits.net/best-year/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

Anonymous Takes Down FBI.gov

http://protestsopa.com/post/16144789949/fbi

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2)

http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-second-edition-updated

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

SICP taught in Python 3 - UC Berkeley online

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

MegaUpload complaint has Dropbox Implications

https://plus.google.com/112885659993091300749/posts/UhcajuqEYRr

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Chrome Extension Development, By Practical Example

https://github.com/bcoe/DoloresLabsTechTalk

15 years ago

★ 175 JavaScript
101 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/microsoft-calls-for-gay-marriage-in-washington-state/251680/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

S-Expressions: The Fat-Free Alternative to JSON

http://shinkirou.org/blog/2010/06/s-expressions-the-fat-free-alternative-to-json/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Mozilla Web Development doing an AMA on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/oonrg/iama_member_of_the_mozilla_webdev_team_ama

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 0 comments

U.S. website blackout draws praise in China

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-internet-20120120,0,31035.story

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/sopa-opponents-supporters/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

Approximate Regex Matching in Python

http://hackerboss.com/approximate-regex-matching-in-python/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/why-students-leave-the-engineering-track/?hp

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 65 comments

Do Great Things

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/20/do-great-things/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-wins-sopa-and-pipa-both-shelved.ars

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Oops I ruined your life

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/01/oops_i_ruined_your_life.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments
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