top 50% 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

An open source Linux client for Google Drive

https://github.com/Grive/grive

14 years ago

★ 1.5k C++ GPL-2.0
110 upvotes – 49 comments

Ruby mistakes

https://gist.github.com/c8188956cd66c38feb1f

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/16/announcing-the-jquery-plugin-registry/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

RethinkDB screencast - from queries to sharding under 15 minutes

http://www.rethinkdb.com/screencast/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

Riddles have no place in job interviews

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/riddles-have-no-place-in-job-interviews.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 140 comments

WikiCancel - A Subscription, Contract, and Account Cancellation Guide

http://wikicancel.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Mega, the new MegaUpload, to launch on January 19

http://kim.com/mega/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming

http://blog.appfog.com/what-the-obama-it-team-teaches-us-about-polyglot-programming/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Want to Kill Innovation at Your Company? Go Public

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/01/15/want-to-kill-innovation-at-your-company-go-public/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

David Rusenko's 2012 Startup School Talk

http://www.startupschool.org/2012/rusenko/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130107/11190721597/uk-mobile-operator-3uk-filtering-new-class-mature-content-including-political-satire.shtml

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 77 comments

Chess - A Quandary for the Game in a High-Tech Era

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/crosswords/chess/chess-borislav-ivanovs-performance-is-scrutinized.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 70 comments

"Aaron's Law" Might Be Good

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/16/congresswoman-names-law-after-dead-guy-b

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2013/01/the-market-wants-apple-to-unve.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 75 comments

Taf - A plan for a statically-typed Lisp

http://manuel.github.com/taf/doc/plan.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Hipmunk Launches Flight Deals

http://www.hipmunk.com/deals?referer=hn1

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Cue's hookshot: hacking the iOS runtime for fun and profiles

http://tech.blog.cueup.com/hookshot-hacking-the-objective-c-runtime-for

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ny-congressman-introducing-ban-on-3d-printed-high

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 71 comments

Petition to Get Rid of Petitions.WhiteHouse.Gov

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/get-rid-petitionswhitehousegov/DLBvj7Vh

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 29 comments
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