top 50% 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

Explaining Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem to a Twelve Year Old

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/j8yq3/can_anyone_eli5_or_12_the_implications_of_gödels/c2a5pp4

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 34 comments

Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/programmer-sentenced-to-death-in-iran-for-upload-software-55430

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 17 comments

Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter

http://hackaday.com/2012/01/15/turn-your-camera-phone-into-a-geiger-counter/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Investigate Dodd and the MPAA for bribery after public threats to congress

http://wh.gov/KiE

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1380180715/mail-pilot-email-reimagined

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 69 comments

Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27512/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Y Combinator’s Short-sighted War Against Hollywood

http://benparr.com/2012/01/lets-work-together/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

I don't owe you scala-tools.org

http://goodstuff.im/no-i-dont-owe-you-scala-toolsorg

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/chuck-moore-on-the-lost-art-of-keeping-it-simple/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 3 comments

WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones

http://hsivonen.iki.fi/webm-share/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources

http://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/30/the-ultimate-collection-of-emacs-resources/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 6 comments

Google has open-sourced SkyMap

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/open-sourcing-sky-map-and-collaborating.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Jobs was told anti-poaching idea likely illegal

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/21/us-apple-lawsuit-idUSTRE80K00G20120121

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Pencil - Sketching and Prototyping with Firefox

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493807

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

The Edge of HTML5

http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5-therealbleedingedge/template/index.html#1

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Zynga 'losing $150 on every new paying customer'

http://www.develop-online.net/news/39555/Zynga-losing-150-on-every-new-paying-customer

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

C++11 will be introduced by B.Stroustrup at Microsoft Event

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?

http://torrentfreak.com/australia-us-copyright-colony-or-just-a-good-friend-120121/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

We, the people, stopped SOPA/PIPA -- Let's remember that

http://codylittlewood.com/we-the-people-stopped-sopapipa-lets-remember

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released

http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/01/20/android-app-inventor-open-sourced-code-released/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

BASH autocomplete for SSH

http://b.sricola.com/post/16174981053/bash-autocomplete-for-ssh

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

Strcpycat

http://byuu.org/articles/programming/strcpycat

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

Killing Hollywood Will Require Learning Hollywood’s Game

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/20/killing-hollywood-will-require-learning-hollywoods-game/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments
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