top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-19

Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out

http://harpers.org/blog/2013/01/carmen-ortiz-strikes-out/

14 years ago

383 upvotes – 264 comments

Sophie In North Korea

https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 175 comments

O'Reilly donating ebook "Open Government" as a tribute to Aaron Swartz

https://github.com/oreillymedia/open_government

14 years ago

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349 upvotes – 27 comments

Mega has launched

https://mega.co.nz/

14 years ago

281 upvotes – 258 comments

I ported LaTeX to Javascript

http://manuels.github.com/texlive.js/website/

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 70 comments

Some Notes About Time

http://unix4lyfe.org/time/?v=1

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 113 comments

Another Ortiz case

http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-fights-property-seizure

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 136 comments

We expect too much of geeks

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/january/weExpectTooMuchOfGeeks

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 90 comments

Git Legit

http://www.git-legit.org/?

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 53 comments

MIT Legal repudiated Xbox hacker too

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2860

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 52 comments

Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free

http://lukasklein.com/blog/free-facebook-message-inbox/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729004.800-why-trees-cant-grow-taller-than-100-metres.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 18 comments

The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr

http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2013/01/18/the-prosecution-of-aaron-a-response-to-orin-kerr/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

http://www.jwandrews.co.uk/2013/01/breaking-the-minteye-image-captcha-in-23-lines-of-python/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Developers Don't Want to Work on Your Idea (2011)

http://swombat.com/2011/6/5/golden-opportunity

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 113 comments

Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/19/kim-dotcoms-new-mega-encrypted-cloud-storage-see-no-evil-store-no-evil/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 94 comments

Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover?

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/glee-coulton-baby-got-back/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

The Creepy Details of Facebook's New Graph Search

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/facebooks-graph-search

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Underdressed at CES 2013

http://blog.doublerobotics.com/blog/2013/1/15/double-robotics-at-ces-2013

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Someone lucky got id Software's original NeXT hardware

http://serverfault.com/questions/470126/how-can-i-successfully-mount-an-8-bit-scsi-drive-on-a-modern-computer

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments
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