top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-14

An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/

14 years ago

635 upvotes – 99 comments

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-help-119-days-ago/

14 years ago

635 upvotes – 469 comments

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draconian-computer-crime-law

14 years ago

452 upvotes – 85 comments

John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style

http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code?post=56177550

14 years ago

416 upvotes – 206 comments

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods

http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 42 comments

The Conscience of a Hacker

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&mode=txt

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 113 comments

How Japanese Kids Learn To Multiply

http://www.magicalmaths.org/how-japanese-kids-learn-to-multiply/

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 99 comments

A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Illegal

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=84

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 78 comments

Why Am I So Upset About Aaron Swartz's Suicide?

http://discountgeni.us/2013/01/13/why-am-i-so-upset-about-aaron-swartzs-suicide/

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 78 comments

Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/01/remembering-aaron-swartz?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/commons_man

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 21 comments

On the state of Windows on the desktop

http://www.brankovukelic.com/2013/01/on-state-of-windows-on-desktop.html

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 129 comments

Anonymous R.I.P Note for Aaron Swartz

http://rledev.mit.edu/aaron.html

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 38 comments

Tools for Data Visualization

http://datavisualization.ch/tools/selected-tools/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 20 comments

The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz (Part 1: The Law)

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 189 comments

Nginx Load Balancing Basics

http://blog.jsdelivr.com/2013/01/nginx-load-balancing-basics.html

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

QLB (قلب) - Program in Arabic, display algorithms as calligraphy

http://qlblang.org/

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 73 comments

Rails has Two Default Stacks

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rails-has-two-default-stacks

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 92 comments

The State of jQuery 2013

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/14/the-state-of-jquery-2013/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 25 comments

Pinboard Co-Prosperity Winners

http://blog.pinboard.in/2013/01/pinboard_co_prosperity_winners/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Did The Secret Service Take Over Aaron Swartz's Case?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130114/08161821656/why-did-secret-service-take-over-aaron-swartzs-case-two-days-before-he-was-arrested.shtml

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 37 comments

We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good

http://blog.superfeedr.com/nodejs-powered/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 104 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

How Erlang does scheduling

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk/2013/01/how-erlang-does-scheduling.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 22 comments

Getting traffic for your newly launched startup

http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/40523233923/getting-traffic-for-your-newly-launched-startup?utm_source=hn

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 28 comments

CNET Reporter Quits Over Editorial Meddling by CBS

http://adage.com/article/media/cnet-reporter-quits-editorial-meddling-cbs/239165/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge/LatestNews+%28Advertising+Age+-+Latest+News%29

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 24 comments

Branch

http://branch.com/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

A Data Crusader, a Defendant and Now, a Cause

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-and-now-a-cause.html?hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

SimpleAI: Artificial Intelligence with Python

http://simpleai.readthedocs.org/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 7 comments

The High Price of Being Single in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/the-high-price-of-being-single-in-america/267043/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

'Red October' cyber-attack found by Russian researchers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21013087

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

Alias.sh: for finding, sharing and storing bash aliases

http://alias.sh/?hn

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

CryptoSeal (YC S11) Offers VPN As A Service

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/cryptoseal-offers-vpn-as-a-service-for-all-that-secure-data-you-risk-when-using-the-coffee-house-wi-fi/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

The FBI's Scientology investigation

http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1270036.ece

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Mit.edu is down

http://www.mit.edu/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

ThoughtWorks Mourns Colleague Aaron Swartz, Responds to MIT’s Statement

http://www.thoughtworks.com/news/thoughtworks-mourns-aaron-swartz

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

"The computer is electronic cocaine for people" says UCLA’s Peter Whybrow

http://www.psmag.com/health/manic-nation-dr-peter-whybrow-says-were-addicted-stress-42695/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Under the Hood with the SpaceX Merlin Engine

http://tuts.pinehead.tv/2013/01/14/under-the-hood-with-the-spacex-merlin-engine/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

The language of languages

http://matt.might.net/articles/grammars-bnf-ebnf/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324581504578238692048200404.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

In California, It’s U.S. vs. State Over Marijuana

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/us/14pot.html?hpw

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

Innovative Game Concept (Done in Canvas/JS)

http://www.krisjet.com/littlebigmansion/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Py3k status update #9

http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/py3k-status-update-9.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Analytics.js for Node

https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-node

14 years ago

★ 590 JavaScript MIT
66 upvotes – 12 comments

Dell Said to Be in Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-14/dell-is-said-be-in-buyout-discussions-with-private-equity-firms.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/government-formally-drops-charges-against-aaron-swartz/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563752-93/anonymous-hacks-mit-after-aaron-swartzs-suicide/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Gooo - The anti-magic Go lang web framework

https://github.com/aaronlifton/Gooo

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21004715

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

Video games don't create violence in society, they reflect it

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/14/3875420/video-game-violence

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments
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