top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-13

1/13 noon at MIT: Protest wrongful prosecution of Aaron Swartz

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215659122039078971677.0004d321f835d25585230&msa=0&ll=42.358163,-71.055622&spn=0.067357,0.154152

14 years ago

469 upvotes – 83 comments

MIT President on Aaron Swartz

http://pastebin.com/eFa8GdGp

14 years ago

467 upvotes – 209 comments

Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz

http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219

14 years ago

448 upvotes – 51 comments

Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 71 comments

Did porn warp me forever?

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/13/did_porn_warp_me_forever/

14 years ago

398 upvotes – 321 comments

Jonathan James

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James

14 years ago

366 upvotes – 118 comments

US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/13/139218/us-attorney-chided-swartz-on-day-of-suicide

14 years ago

315 upvotes – 123 comments

Aaron Swartz, American hero

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-american-hero/

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 34 comments

How and why the US Justice Department over-prosecutes

http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/i-have-something-to-say-about-aaron-swartzs-suicide-and-the-special-way-the-us-justice-dept-hounds-p.html

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 125 comments

I hate the news

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

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 74 comments

On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 109 comments

Three Felonies A Day - How The Feds Target The Innocent

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 48 comments

Remember Aaron Swartz (1986 – 2013)

http://torrentfreak.com/remember-aaron-swartz-130113/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 3 comments

Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence

http://io9.com/5975592/aaron-swartz-died-innocent-++-here-is-the-evidence

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 45 comments

Academia.edu - Share research

http://academia.edu/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 40 comments

"TLDR" is unnecessary

http://douglastarr.com/tldr-is-unnecessary

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 96 comments

Common JavaScript Gotchas

http://www.jblotus.com/2013/01/13/common-javascript-gotchas/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Be careful with JS numbers

http://blog.greweb.fr/2013/01/be-careful-with-js-numbers/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

The Nightmare That Keeps Microsoft Awake: Android On The Desktop

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/01/12/the-nightmare-that-keeps-microsoft-awake-android-on-the-desktop/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 99 comments

Yes, learn basic programming

https://sivers.org/prog

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14283270/how-to-determine-if-my-calculation-of-pi-is-accurate

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

MIT and Aaron Swartz

http://crookedtimber.org/2013/01/13/mit-and-aaron-swartz/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

In Remembrance of Aaron Swartz

http://www.thoughtworks.com/articles/remembering-aaron-swartz

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 1 comments

The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/13/brilliant_life_and_tragic_death_of_aaron_swartz.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 0 comments

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Zhitomirskiy

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Going for a seven-year walk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20902355

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

PDFtribute website with links scraped from Twitter

http://pdftribute.net/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

29C3 Recordings

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2012/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Teoria.js - Music theory for JavaScript

http://saebekassebil.github.com/teoria/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

I2C Programming in Go

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/01/i2c-programming-in-go/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

$10,000: The Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=83

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

Windows Phone Error Message Tells Users To Insert CD And Restart Computer

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/12/this-is-the-funniest-windows-error-message-youve-ever-seen/?fromcat=all

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Remembering Aaron Swartz

http://danbri.org/words/2013/01/13/815

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 0 comments

Fastest Wi-Fi ever is almost ready for real-world use

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/fastest-wi-fi-ever-is-almost-ready-for-real-world-use/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

In which Ars is allowed to see—but not touch—an Ubuntu phone

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/in-which-ars-is-allowed-to-see-but-not-touch-an-ubuntu-phone/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Report: NASA open source project slowed by commercial vendor

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Report-NASA-open-source-project-slowed-by-commercial-vendor-1777755.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Making Lego Into Art: Nathan Sawaya's Impossible Brick Sculptures

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682144/making-lego-into-art-nathan-sawayas-impossible-brick-sculptures

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

JDK 7u11 Release Notes

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u11-relnotes-1896856.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

Bostonian of the Year: Carmen Ortiz

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/30/bostonian_of_the_year_carmen_ortiz_2011/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments
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