top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-23

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

15 years ago

596 upvotes – 193 comments

Waking up at 5am to code

http://www.mattgreer.org/post/2fiveam

15 years ago

594 upvotes – 198 comments

Html5please

http://html5please.us/

15 years ago

415 upvotes – 34 comments

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-gps-ruling/

15 years ago

410 upvotes – 115 comments

How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?

http://feefighters.com/blog/how-are-free-conference-calls-free/

15 years ago

338 upvotes – 77 comments

Udacity and the future of online universities

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/

15 years ago

314 upvotes – 69 comments

Stallman: Facebook is Mass Surveillance

https://rt.com/news/richard-stallman-free-software-875/

15 years ago

313 upvotes – 144 comments

Let's make TCP faster

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 36 comments

The Noun Project: Icons for everything

http://thenounproject.com/?hn

15 years ago

285 upvotes – 67 comments

Welcome Garry and Aaron

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-garry-and-aaron

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 34 comments

Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript

http://www.adityaravishankar.com/2011/11/command-and-conquer-programming-an-rts-game-in-html5-and-javascript

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 63 comments

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 16 comments

Mozilla releases version 0.1 of the Rust programming language

http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-January/001256.html

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 82 comments

Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

http://blog.zx2c4.com/749

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 55 comments

Google: Focus on the User

http://www.focusontheuser.org

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 55 comments

Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-23-why-tarsnap-wont-use-dynamodb.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 37 comments

On pirates and piracy

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/on-pirates-and-piracy.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 26 comments

The Little Redis Book

http://openmymind.net/2012/1/23/The-Little-Redis-Book/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 15 comments

The things first time founders do…

http://klinger.io/post/16308736248/dont-be-a-first-time-founder

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

The Moore's Law free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.

http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 75 comments

Google+ relaxes real-name policy, allows pseudonyms

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113116318008017777871/posts/SM5RjubbMmV

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 105 comments

Boycotting Hollywood

http://aaronmoodie.com/blog/2012/01/23/boycotting-hollywood.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 81 comments

The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.

http://thecostofknowledge.com

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-germany-middle-class-20120122,0,1551154,full.story

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 107 comments

We should teach all our kids to code

http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/column/1264/coding-for-success/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

An introduction to modern OpenGL

http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Chapter-1:-The-Graphics-Pipeline.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 11 comments

Oracle v. Google: Judge leaves Oracle reeling on viability of its damages claims

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120119214029378

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=52107

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA

http://blog.davidbanham.com/?p=52

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Benefits of getting up early even if you don't want to code

http://zenhabits.net/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lost Art of Becoming Good at Things

http://expertenough.com/295/the-lost-art-of-becoming-good-at-things

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Obama to Hold Google+ ‘Hangout’ After State of the Union

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/23/obama-to-hold-google-hangout-after-state-of-the-union-address/?iid=tl-main-feature

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let’s Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons”

http://daggle.com/dear-rupert-murdoch-talk-piracy-simpsons-2944

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

A community-driven manual for Node.js

http://nodemanual.org/latest/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Javascript Best Practices

http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/bestpractices/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed and awk

http://matt.might.net/articles/sculpting-text/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

New Class: Building a search Engine

http://www.udacity.com/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

RIM CEOs to Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204624204577177184275959856.html?fb_ref=wsj_share_FB&fb_source=home_oneline

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

A tale of new censors

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tale-new-censors-vodafone-uk-t-mobile-uk-o2-uk-and-t-mobile-usa

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Negotiating a Job Offer with a Company

http://blog.interviewstreet.com/2012/01/negotiating-a-job-offer-with-a-company/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

JavaScript on the server: Growing the Node.js Community

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/01/javascript-on-the-server-growing-the-node-js-community/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: I built an easier way to browse ThemeForest

http://themesquirrel.com

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/after-terrific-year-music-biz-demands-that-world-adopt-sopa-plus.ars

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Anonymous' new weapon

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Anonymous-s-new-weapon-1418337.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_is_now_the_most_popular_linux_distribution_on_web_servers

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/01/23/solr-bittorrent-index-replication/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Megaupload Takedown Questioned By Users, Lawyers

http://informationweek.com/news/security/client/232500305

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

The startup skill set

http://swombat.com/2012/1/23/startup-skill-set

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Don't launch a company, launch an experiment

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/01/23/have-idea-for-a-startup-dont-launch-a-company-launch-an-experiment/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments
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