top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-17

What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco

http://jasonevanish.com/2013/01/17/25-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-moving-to-san-francisco/

14 years ago

592 upvotes – 558 comments

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark

14 years ago

489 upvotes – 203 comments

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/01/17/us-attorney-statement-on-the-prosecution-of-aaron-swartz/

14 years ago

369 upvotes – 289 comments

Our Django Book is Launched

http://pydanny.com/our-django-book-is-launched.html

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 132 comments

Handling Growth with Postgres

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/40781627982/handling-growth-with-postgres-5-tips-from-instagram

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 83 comments

I sent a balloon up to capture 360x180 degree imagery/video from 100K feet

http://robotrising.org/2013/01/operation-stratosphere-conclusion/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 39 comments

Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-patent-trolls-pay-all-costs-associated-their-frivolous-lawsuits-if-they-lose/gWPpVYMt

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 87 comments

Delivery for Mr. Assange

https://twitter.com/bitnk/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 82 comments

SSH client in Google Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 162 comments

Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"

http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/follow_up_to_the_unreasonable.html

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 150 comments

Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC

http://apc.io/products/paper/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 106 comments

The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz – Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aaron-swartz-part-2-prosecutorial-discretion/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 136 comments

Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/aaron-swartz-case-011713

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 67 comments

Go concurrency patterns

http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 81 comments

'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi

http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi-7000009718/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 95 comments

SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X

http://feross.org/spoofmac/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud

http://www.ersatz1.com

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/1/14/bringing-functional-to-the-frontend-clojure-clojurescript-for-the-web

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 60 comments

What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?

http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication

http://www.bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments
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