top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-30

The Five Stages of Hosting

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/

15 years ago

747 upvotes – 179 comments

Ryan Dahl steps down

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/85f6a3829bc64cb6

14 years ago

387 upvotes – 64 comments

US bars friends over Twitter joke

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 215 comments

Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6795

14 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

GUM: A better CLI for Git

http://www.saintsjd.com/2012/01/a-better-ui-for-git/

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 78 comments

Fixing the Python subprocess interface

http://amoffat.github.com/pbs

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 61 comments

Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/16736314554/silicon-valleys-productivity-secret

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 68 comments

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 48 comments

Backbone 0.9.0 released

http://backbonejs.org/#changelog

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 39 comments

How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 85 comments

The /bin/true Command and Copyright

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 28 comments

Crowd Investing: Wefunder

http://wefunder.com/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

Format string vulnerability found in 'sudo'

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/10437.html

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3526993

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 39 comments

Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/30/codecademy-becomes-a-platform-now-anyone-can-write-programming-tutorials/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 24 comments

Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 69 comments

A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB

http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/1/30/a-tour-of-amazons-dynamodb.html

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Programming is the new High School Diploma

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/01/programming-is-1.php

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 114 comments

Interview with Facebook's Andrei Alexandrescu

http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments
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