top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-25

Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

http://mongout.com

15 years ago

401 upvotes – 138 comments

UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit

http://lew.io/headers.php

15 years ago

362 upvotes – 174 comments

Google is FUBAR

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/115425-google-is-fubar

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 268 comments

HP open sources Enyo javascript framework from webOS, now cross platform

http://enyojs.com/

15 years ago

266 upvotes – 27 comments

Google at GitHub

https://github.com/google/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 85 comments

Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial

http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/152242/37/Roswell-Park-Makes-Major-Annoucement-on-Cancer-Vaccine

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 40 comments

Average Is Over

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/opinion/friedman-average-is-over.html

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 243 comments

Zynga Shamelessly Rips Off 'Tiny Tower' With Canadian Release of 'Dream Heights'

http://toucharcade.com/2012/01/24/zynga-shamelessly-rips-off-tiny-tower-with-canadian-release-of-dream-heights/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 69 comments

The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/01/25/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-1/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 51 comments

Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/01/25/lisp-in-40-lines-of-ruby/

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 54 comments

Wil Wheaton Says MPAA Accounting Creates More Losses Than Piracy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120124/04344817524/wil-wheaton-says-chris-dodd-is-lying-about-lost-jobs-says-mpaa-accounting-creates-more-losses-than-piracy.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Instant documentation site for Github projects

http://documentup.com/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 19 comments

I'm a teapot

http://nytimes.com/418

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

Tim Berners-Lee Confirms The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented: France

http://davidgalbraith.org/uncategorized/the-exact-location-where-the-web-was-invented/2343/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 27 comments

Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime

https://jailbreakingisnotacrime.org/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 55 comments

Node.js - A giant step backwards?

http://fennb.com/nodejs-a-giant-step-backwards

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 97 comments

AWS Storage Gateway

http://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

David Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" (1955)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/i-am-lousy-copywriter.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

O2 statement on the mobile number issue

http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-browsing.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 61 comments

Physicists create light out of nothing

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/17/3368920.htm#

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

Real-time feed processing with Storm

http://www.datasalt.com/2012/01/real-time-feed-processing-with-storm/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Raspberry Pi's GPU double the performance of iPhone 4S

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-raspberry-pi-gpu-outperforms-iphone-4s

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Photographers face copyright threat after shock ruling

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/photographers_face_copyright_threat_after_shock_ruling__news_311191.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Developers Hate Antiviruses

http://blog.jitbit.com/2012/01/why-developers-hate-antiviruses.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 83 comments

Paradox CEO Calls DRM a 'Waste of Money'

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/paradox-ceo-calls-drm-a-waste-of-money/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Free online course: Programming for the Web with Ruby (Satish Talim)

http://rubylearning.com/blog/2012/01/21/free-online-course-programming-for-the-web-with-ruby/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Patagonia Tests New Sustainable Legal Status

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-04/patagonia-road-tests-new-sustainability-legal-status.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

United States Postal Service tries to compete with Google using fear

http://n8.tumblr.com/post/16468921498/united-states-postal-service-tries-to-compete-with

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 103 comments

How Much Processing Power Does it Take to be Fast?

http://prog21.dadgum.com/68.html?1

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Watching Apple win

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3084-watching-apple-win

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 147 comments

Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/brown-fat-burns-ordinary-fat-study-finds.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Emacs and Common Lisp, Part 2

http://tromey.com/blog/?p=751

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Image Search Breakthrough: 0.98+ Precise Images of 500,000+ topics

http://rdf.ookaboo.com/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

WebOS's JavaScript framework enyo is now OpenSource

https://github.com/enyojs/enyo

15 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript
77 upvotes – 6 comments

The DVD is dead. USB flash drive restores are here.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/01/25/the-dvd-is-dead-usb-flash-drive-restores-are-here/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

IRB session to existing ruby process.

https://github.com/ileitch/hijack

15 years ago

★ 745 Ruby
73 upvotes – 21 comments

Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/symantec-says-anonymous-stole-source-code-tells-customers-to-disable-security-product.ars

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

TileMill 0.9.0 Released with Full Windows Support (and plugins)

http://mapbox.com/blog/tilemill-090-released/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

HTML5 Canvas & Processing JS

http://joeycadle.com/blog/article/1/2012/22/01/html5-canvas-and-processing-js

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Magnificent looking HTML5 game - "Project Blaze Zero"

http://www.scirra.com/arcade/shooter/349/project-blaze-zero

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Sen. Ron Wyden: PIPA/SOPA Is a Congressional Wake-Up Call

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/wyden-pipa-sopa-wake-up/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

HP: webOS to be fully open-sourced by September

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/hp-webos-to-be-fully-open-sourced-by-september-enyo-2-0-framew/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

What I Learned from 50+ Mock Interviews

http://blog.jobfully.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-from-50-mock-interviews/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Silicon Valley newcomers are still dreaming big

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/us/silicon-valley-newcomers-are-still-dreaming-big.html?_r=2&src=recg&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Recap on our Anti-SOPA Campaign: 15,000 Faxes Sent to Congress

http://blog.hellofax.com/in-the-news/recap-on-our-anti-sopa-campaign-15000-faxes-sent-to-congress/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: ScummVM's unpaid coders keep adventure gaming alive

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/maniac-tentacle-mindbenders-of-atlantis-how-scummvm-kept-adventure-gaming-alive.ars/1

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Intercom raises $1M

http://blog.intercom.io/big-announcements-1000000-end-users-public-beta-awesome-advisors-1m-raised/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Petition Asks White House To Submit ACTA To The Senate For Ratification

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120124/14071517529/new-petition-asks-white-house-to-submit-acta-to-senate-ratification.shtml

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

If you think O2 headers are bad, check this out.

http://www.kiteandcode.com/post/16459436941/if-you-think-o2-headers-are-bad-check-this-out

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

Netflix: Streaming vs. DVD margins

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/25/netflixs-streaming-dvd-margins/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Comcast Explains Why NASA's Web Site Was Blocked Last Week (DNSSEC)

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2012/01/comcast-releases-detailed-analysis-of-nasa-gov-dnssec-validation-failure/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Data visualization of yahoo homepage traffic

http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/core/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: We made a site to crowd fund lobbying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3510173

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 28 comments

Yep, Programming Is Borked

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/01/yep-programming-is-borked.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 55 comments

Git-number: Use numbers for dealing with files in git

https://github.com/holygeek/git-number

15 years ago

★ 290 Go ISC
43 upvotes – 19 comments
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