top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-01-21

Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117114202722218150209/posts/4GgaRiSyaTf

15 years ago

709 upvotes – 172 comments

MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/14472117492/mpaa-directly-publicly-threatens-politicians-who-arent-corrupt-enough-to-stay-bought.shtml

15 years ago

514 upvotes – 105 comments

How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

446 upvotes – 307 comments

Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/y-combinator-goes-on-the-offensive-against-hollywood/?src=twrhp

15 years ago

366 upvotes – 91 comments

Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 43 comments

Can we kill the music business too?

http://audiosearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-we-kill-music-business-too.html

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 70 comments

How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/01/reddit_how_the_site_went_from_a_second_tier_aggregator_to_the_web_s_unstoppable_force_.single.html

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 84 comments

We are sorry to inform you

http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 52 comments

The Secret Document That Transformed China

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 53 comments

Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA

https://plus.google.com/110802750614569707247/posts/XpK4KLpsQCs

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 25 comments
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