top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-28

Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?

http://justinsomnia.org/2011/03/why-does-that-qr-code-take-me-to-justinsomnia-org

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 72 comments

YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/28/cant-look-away/

15 years ago

306 upvotes – 237 comments

IcedCoffeeScript

http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 58 comments

Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory

http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 43 comments

Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/27/2753701/no-poach-scandal-unredacted-steve-jobs-eric-schmidt-paul-otellini

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 167 comments

Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/28/promo-bay/

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Every Professional Should Consider Blogging

http://technicalblogging.com/why-every-professional-should-consider-blogging/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 56 comments

Apology to 37signals

http://blog.curebit.com/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 207 comments

Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely

http://dearthey.com/2012/01/26/a-copyright-quickie-canada-is-about-to-pass-sopas-evil-little-brother-politely/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 28 comments

Doing Y Combinator a second time

http://kulveer.co.uk/2012/01/28/doing-y-combinator-a-second-time/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

My Startup Failed, But It's OK

http://www.coderholic.com/my-startup-failed-but-its-ok/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Free book on Bayesian machine learning by David Barber

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/090310.pdf

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 11 comments

Jekyll Bootstrap: The Quickest Way to Blog with Jekyll

http://jekyllbootstrap.com/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

http://diegobasch.com/why-software-development-estimations-are-regu

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 59 comments

SPJ: Escape From the Ivory Tower, Haskell From 1990 to 2011

http://yow.eventer.com/events/1004/talks/1054

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 19 comments

Former Apple Exec goes to JC Penney and slashes prices by 40%

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/01/jc-penney-cuts-all-prices-by-40-permanently.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521982

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 89 comments

A paper about Emacs Org-Mode in the Journal of Statistical Software

http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i03

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 4 comments

US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/26/2315249/us-plummets-on-world-press-freedom-ranking

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

http://www.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html?

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 134 comments

Visualized Git practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

http://kentnguyen.com/development/visualized-git-practices-for-team/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

CityHash: new hash function by Google (faster than Murmur)

http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Zocial CSS3 Buttons

http://zocial.smcllns.com/sample.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Salary Negotiations, Don’t be Tough, be Honest

http://jnorthrop.tumblr.com/post/16631034370/salary-negotiations-dont-be-tough-be-honest

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

Megaupload Implications are plain scary for Cloud Storage

http://www.alexblom.com/blog/2012/01/thinking-through-the-megaupload-takedown/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

A Private PaaS with Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ

http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship

https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-industry-calls-for-broad-search-engine-censorship-120127/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Browser Sedimentation

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/01/22/Confusing-Browser

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

Blog of current ISS astronaut

http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/newui/blog/viewpostlist.jsp?blogname=letters

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, TrickedOutTimeline

http://www.trickedouttimeline.com/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux Easy To Support = Lower Software Prices

http://lunduke.com/?p=2116

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-should-self-publish-a-book/?grcc=88888Z0

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Is it OK to steal “Downton Abbey”?

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/27/is_it_ok_to_steal_downton_abbey/singleton/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments

HTTP Access to Email Stores

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dusseault-httpmail-00

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Why I Wish Google Circles Were Reversed

http://www.joshuahedlund.com/words/technology/2012/01/why-i-wish-google-circles-were-reversed/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Bill Gates' masterpiece, DONKEY.BAS, finally available for iPhone

http://technologizer.com/2012/01/28/donkey-bas-is-back/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

Taking Nothing Personally

http://bennesvig.com/2012/01/27/taking-nothing-personally/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments
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