top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-12

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

14 years ago

2103 upvotes – 546 comments

Prosecutor as bully

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

14 years ago

1200 upvotes – 260 comments

The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"

http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/

14 years ago

837 upvotes – 89 comments

Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck

14 years ago

801 upvotes – 234 comments

Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz

http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/post/40372208044/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of-aaron

14 years ago

682 upvotes – 144 comments

If I get hit by a truck...

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity

14 years ago

651 upvotes – 50 comments

Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.html

14 years ago

610 upvotes – 30 comments

Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html

14 years ago

570 upvotes – 20 comments

Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048132

14 years ago

519 upvotes – 158 comments

Let's black bar HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047472

14 years ago

483 upvotes – 75 comments

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

14 years ago

472 upvotes – 52 comments

My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved

http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=644

14 years ago

419 upvotes – 40 comments

JSTOR torrent

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 82 comments

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking

14 years ago

370 upvotes – 70 comments

Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 5 comments

Aaron Swartz: How To Get A Job Like Mine

https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

14 years ago

338 upvotes – 17 comments

Posthumously pardon Aaron Swartz

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardon-aaron-swartz/DVpdmSBj?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 37 comments

Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/Aaronsw.com

14 years ago

303 upvotes – 35 comments

JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz

http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 65 comments

Aaron Swartz really did co-author RSS spec at age 14

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3494/times-gives-aaron-swartz-props-rss

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 13 comments

Aaron Swartz: What Happens in The Dark Knight

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 13 comments

Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/feds-go-overboard-in-prosecuting-information-activist/

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 22 comments

Philip Greenspun: Aaron Swartz

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz/

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 28 comments

Aaron Swartz v. United States (2011)

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/07/24/aaron-swartz-v-united-states/

14 years ago

228 upvotes – 17 comments

Aaron Swartz on illness and depression

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 22 comments

A Moment Before Dying

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 20 comments

Raw Nerve by Aaron Swartz

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 14 comments

A Chat With Aaron Swartz

http://www.blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 8 comments

How to be more productive

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity#

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 3 comments

Soulmate lost. RIP Aaron Swartz

http://alexdong.com/soulmate-lost-rip-aaron-swartz/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 7 comments

Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cefxMVAy

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 8 comments

Farewell to Aaron Swartz

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 3 comments

End Daylight Savings

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/end-daylight-savings/Vqmj9z6D

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 145 comments

Many JSTOR articles are now (sort of) free to the public

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/academic-libraries/many-jstor-journal-archives-now-free-to-public/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 7 comments

Aaron Swartz's Legacy

http://www.vivtek.com/aaron_swartz_legacy.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 0 comments

Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001679

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 0 comments
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