top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-15

Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/

14 years ago

1065 upvotes – 455 comments

Introducing Graph Search

https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch

14 years ago

395 upvotes – 250 comments

Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

http://blog.achernya.com/2013/01/please-stop-attacking-mits-network-in.html

14 years ago

365 upvotes – 207 comments

Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal

http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/15/petition-to-fire-aaron-swartz-prosecutor-reaches-goal

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 163 comments

California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2013/01/15/california-to-hit-startup-founders-with-big-retroactive-tax-bills/

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 303 comments

The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 253 comments

What No One Told You About Z-Index

http://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about-z-index/

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 96 comments

Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life

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

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 173 comments

Design Books Every Hacker Should Read

http://davidmckinney.com/blog/2013/1/15/the-best-5-design-books

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 86 comments

Plea Bargaining and Torture in light of the Aaron Swartz case

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/15/plea-bargaining-and-torture-in-light-of-the-aaron-swartz-case/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 113 comments

How to Write an Opening Sentence

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-write-opening-sentence.html

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

JSTOR Liberator sets public domain academic articles free

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/aaron-swartz-memorial-jstor-liberator-sets-public-domain-academic-articles-free/

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 107 comments

JQuery 1.9 has been released

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate-final-released/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 41 comments

Building A Node.js Server That Won't Melt

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/building-a-node-js-server-that-wont-melt-a-node-js-holiday-season-part-5/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 48 comments

OK Cupid launches Crazy Blind Date

http://www.crazyblinddate.com/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 204 comments

Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It (1979)

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1532&context=fss_papers

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 45 comments

MailChimp Annual Report

http://mailchimp.com/2012/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 47 comments

The Atlantic suspends the Scientology advertorial

http://m.theatlantic.com/misc/notice/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 79 comments

The 6502 CPU's overflow flag explained at the silicon level

http://www.arcfn.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-explained.html

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 33 comments

On humanity, a big failure in Aaron Swartz case

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit/bj8oThPDwzgxBSHQt3tyKI/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

Becoming A Boss

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/01/becoming-a-boss.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 18 comments

Stuff (2007)

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 94 comments

The Aaron Swartz memorial JSTOR liberator

http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 2 comments

Memorial hackathons for Aaron Swartz

https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front/browse_thread/thread/3d17904bef7759b0

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Petition to remove DA Ortiz reaches 25,000 signatures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058947

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Simple launches Android app

http://twotoasters.com/ideas/2013/introducing-simple-for-android/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for creationists

http://io9.com/5976112/how-19+year+old-activist-zack-kopplin-is-making-life-hell-for-louisianas-creationists

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 62 comments

IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/tom-dolan-defends-carmen-ortiz-aaron-swartz-twitter/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 175 comments

Emmy Noether

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_noether

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

Aaron Swartz: Idealist, Innovator—And Now Victim

http://www.thedailymuse.com/education/aaron-swartz-didnt-have-to-die/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-usa-court-silence-idUSBRE90A13P20130111

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

How Apple sets its prices

http://www.macworld.com/article/2024257/how-apple-sets-its-prices.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 41 comments

Wolfram Alpha Needs an Open Source Version

http://www.pointlessrants.com/2009/10/wolframalpha-needs-an-open-source-version/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Backbone.js v0.9.10 Released

http://backbonejs.org/#upgrading

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Gates Foundation study: We’ve figured out what makes a good teacher

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gates-study-weve-figured-out-what-makes-a-good-teacher/2013/01/08/05ca7d60-59b0-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 98 comments

Google App Engine is Down

http://code.google.com/status/appengine?day=01/15/13

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

In memory of Aaron Swartz: a collection of PDFs from PDFtribute

http://edward.io/pdftribute/index.php

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Proactive Log Review Might Be A Good Idea

http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-study-pro-active-log-review-might-be-a-good-idea/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3's Source Code

http://m.kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/techstars-graduate-digitalocean-switches-to-ssd-for-its-5-per-month-vps-to-take-on-linode-and-rackspace/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 66 comments

Stanford Introduction to Databases Course, Winter 2013 edition, starts today

http://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Native Mobile Apps Styled With CSS - Pixate (YC S12) Launches

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/pixate-debuts-a-framework-for-designing-mobile-apps-with-css/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

How to Hire a Hacker

http://rtigger.com/blog/2013/01/15/how-to-hire-a-hacker/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

Did Prosecutors Go Too Far In Swartz Case?

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/15/169421636/did-prosecutors-go-too-far-in-swartz-case

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Webapps for Data Scientists - Building your first CRUD

http://blog.kaggle.com/2013/01/14/webapps-for-data-scientists-building-your-first-crud/?repost=1

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

You Can Make Money with Open Source

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/yes_you_can_make_money_with_op.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

With GoBank, You Can Carry All Your Money In Your Pocket

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57563963-94/with-gobank-you-can-carry-all-your-money-in-a-pocket/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

How To Solve Problems Like Sherlock Holmes

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682203/how-to-solve-problems-like-sherlock-holmes

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 34 comments

Aaron Swartz was 'killed by the government,' father tells mourners

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-aaron-swartz-funeral-eulogy-father-20130115,0,648108.story

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 76 comments

Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/75727

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 54 comments
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