top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-24

Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/24/larry-page-to-googlers-if-you-dont-get-spyw-work-somewhere-else/

15 years ago

416 upvotes – 285 comments

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

15 years ago

391 upvotes – 45 comments

Hastebin

http://hastebin.com/

15 years ago

378 upvotes – 67 comments

Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939

15 years ago

361 upvotes – 198 comments

Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

http://www.politicianmarket.com/

15 years ago

334 upvotes – 144 comments

Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-testing-and-feedback/

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 85 comments

Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 261 comments

Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening?

http://brianpress.heroku.com/blog/2012/01/23/is-my-macbook-pro-always-listening/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 105 comments

Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504304

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

http://carsabi.com

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 103 comments

Mobile shift: You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is

https://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/01/24/youve-probably-underestimated-just-how-big-this-is/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 114 comments

Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael

http://color.method.ac/

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 30 comments

Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/was-megaupload-targeted-because-of-its-upcoming-megabox-digital-jukebox-service/

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 64 comments

The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-wants-you-to-really-download-a-car-120124/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 137 comments

I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

http://www.webstartup.me/launched-startup-yesterday-hectic-day

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 80 comments

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57364330-281/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-decrypt-their-laptops/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 180 comments

Vivify: A color scheme editor for vim

http://bytefluent.com/vivify/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 21 comments

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/24/wales-versus-dodd/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 35 comments

I want to fix programming

http://jonbho.net/2012/01/24/i-want-to-fix-programming/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 159 comments

Tony Hsieh's new $350 million startup

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/23/tony-hsieh-las-vegas-zappos/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 44 comments

Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/judge-fifth-amendment-doesnt-protect-encrypted-hard-drives.ars

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 132 comments

Say No to Ireland's SOPA

http://stopsopaireland.com/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

Are Expensive Batteries Worth the Extra Cost?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/are-expensive-batteries-worth-the-extra-cost/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Dear Comcast, I'm leaving you because...

http://bgentry.posterous.com/dear-comcast-im-leaving-you-because?

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 67 comments

Making universities obsolete

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2012/01/making-universities-obsolete.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

Matt Mullenweg: On the Evolution of Investing

http://ma.tt/2012/01/on-the-evolution-of-investing/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/craigslist-charitable-fund-don.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Google's new privacy policy and TOS

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 43 comments

To-Do Lists Don't Work

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/to-do_lists_dont_work.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372385/ubuntu-rips-up-drop-down-menus

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

Building trello.com for multiple devices

http://blog.fogcreek.com/building-trello-com-for-multiple-devices/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Making It in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/01/making-it-in-america/8844/?single_page=true

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Opinion: moreSQL is real

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/google-moresql-is-real

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

The top 20 HTML5 games

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-20-html5-games

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Working Group assembling to discuss HTTP/2.0

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JanMar/0098.html

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook For Russia Founder Donates $1 Million To Wikipedia

http://www.flarevine.com/2012/01/24/facebook-for-russia-founder-donates-1-million-to-wikipedia/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

A New Mathematics for Computing

http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/A-New-Mathematics-for-Computing/ba-p/1390

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37200.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

I dare you all, test your strength: Open a book

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/i-dare-you-all-test-your-strength-open.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Average Silicon Valley Tech Salary Passes $100,000

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204624204577179193752435590-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMzEyNDMyWj.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 93 comments

Some companies are best off without VC

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2012/01/companies-that-would-do-best-without-venture-capital/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/sundance-2012-chris-dodd-mpaa-piracy-284190

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Starting Over

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201202/jason-fried/starting-over-get-real.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Refusing administrative minutiae

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3081-refusing-administrative-minutiae

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

How to Easily Convert Any Bookmarklet to Chrome Extension (+ source code)

http://blog.self.li/post/16366939413/how-to-convert-bookmarklet-to-chrome-extension

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

A self-infecting datatype in Lisp

http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/circular-list-infections.txt

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Server-Sent Events

http://html5doctor.com/server-sent-events/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments
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