top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-24

What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

http://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/

13 years ago

1331 upvotes – 781 comments

Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.

http://mashable.com/2013/01/23/unlocking-cellphones-illegal/

13 years ago

537 upvotes – 357 comments

"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/071949.html

13 years ago

506 upvotes – 176 comments

I'm sorry

http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/2013/01/im-sorry.html

13 years ago

463 upvotes – 177 comments

An Amaz-ing Resume

http://www.phildub.com/

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 112 comments

Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111104121194250082892/posts/KW3TdRYwjr9

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 33 comments

Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States

http://torrentfreak.com/antigua-government-set-to-launch-pirate-website-to-punish-united-states-130124/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 97 comments

How an unsigned rapper changed music

http://silentattraction.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/how-an-unsigned-white-rapper-changed-music/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 168 comments

Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’

http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 108 comments

Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/aleksey-vayner-death-video

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 79 comments

Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2012/11/28/amazon-and-margins

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 110 comments

If You Call Out Bad Code, Make Sure It's Bad First

http://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2013/01/24/if-you-call-out-bad-code.html

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 128 comments

Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106375

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 39 comments

Zen Writing Mode

https://github.com/blog/1379-zen-writing-mode

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 55 comments

Open Letter to Skype from Internet Activists, Journalists and Academics

http://skypeopenletter.com

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 67 comments

John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/shedding-some-realistic-light-on-imaginations-real-time-ray-tracing-card/?comments=1&post=23723213#comment-23723213

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 67 comments

Startup Visa coming to Canada April 1st

http://startupnorth.ca/2013/01/24/mission-accomplished-startupvisa-canada/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 69 comments

Petition the Whitehouse to make unlocking cell phones legal

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 35 comments

Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your-seatbelts-googles-driverless-car-is-worth-trillions/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 189 comments

Belkin Buys Linksys from Cisco

http://allthingsd.com/20130124/ciscos-flirtation-with-consumers-is-over-as-belkin-buys-linksys-unit/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 96 comments
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