top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-22

ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#Border_searches

15 years ago

412 upvotes – 191 comments

Amazon studios

http://studios.amazon.com/getting-started

15 years ago

314 upvotes – 85 comments

Google's "free food" is not free

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/21/notfree/

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 173 comments

US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-J-Michael-Straczynski/139652459402959

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 39 comments

My idea to "Kill Hollywood"

http://blog.rsbrown.net/2012/01/my-idea-to-kill-hollywood.html

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 135 comments

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Digital Devices

https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 53 comments

OSX Lion in CSS3

http://www.alessioatzeni.com/mac-osx-lion-css3/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 45 comments

FileSonic disables all filesharing

http://www.filesonic.com/

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 169 comments

Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360?tag=nl.e539&h=1

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 56 comments

Public speaking for normal people

http://www.humbledmba.com/public-speaking-for-normal-people

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments

The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography

http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lobby-absolutely-loves-child-pornography-110709/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 23 comments

SOPA sponsors return: "think of the children"

http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-has-another-internet-bill-that-records-you-247-20210264/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

Uploaded.to blocked U.S. visitors as a response to the MegaUpload takedown

http://uploaded.to/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 51 comments

Nice guys finish first. Eventually.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/ideas-bank/nice-guys

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Books for people in the software business

http://www.dextronet.com/micro-isv-insights/2012/01/30-books-everyone-in-software-business-should-read-and-why/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 19 comments

When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming

http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 137 comments

ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Crowd-sourced political lobby

http://www.wethelobby.com

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2682-exit-interview-the-creators-of-no-longer-with-us-products-explain-what-went-wrong

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

The Hacker is Watching

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201201/luis-mijangos-hacker-webcam-virus-internet?printable=true

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Die, Hollywood, die

http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/01/22/die-hollywood-die/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

http://torrentfreak.com/while-house-petitioned-to-investigate-mpaa-bribery-120122/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

CSS3 Facebook Buttons

http://nicolasgallagher.com/lab/css3-facebook-buttons/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/21/does-online-piracy-hurt-the-economy-a-look-at-the-numbers/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Rereading Darwin

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.14345,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 4 comments

Disqus Commenting System Goes Down; Leaves All Blogs Comment-Less

http://digitizor.com/2012/01/22/disqus-comments-down/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Mathematically analyzing sorting algorithms

http://www.peter-eigenschink.at/blog/sorting-analysis-bubble-quick/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Copyright fight contributes to media industry decline

https://plus.google.com/113998757823214420296/posts/5uE2bD6PGqW

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

HTTP 7xx: developer errors

https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc

15 years ago

★ 4.5k Makefile
65 upvotes – 7 comments

Zipper in Scheme

http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/zipper-in-scheme.txt

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 0 comments

Rodents exhibit empathy by setting trapped friends free

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336819/title/He%E2%80%99s_no_rat%2C_he%E2%80%99s_my_brother

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

One Man’s HTML5 Developer Workflow

http://blog.elemdage.com/technology/one-mans-html5-developer-workflow

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Startup Branding: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/76648/Startup-Branding-A-Practical-Guide-for-Entrepreneurs.aspx

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

The 15% Tax Rate

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/the-15-tax-rate.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 118 comments

Signs You Aren’t Really Building a Minimum Viable Product

http://22ideastreet.com/blog/2012/01/11/signs-you-arent-really-building-a-minimum-viable-product/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Blindly submitting content to HN, good or bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3496928

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments
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