top 50% 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

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

Open Letter to Skype from Internet Activists, Journalists and Academics

http://skypeopenletter.com

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

Helium – Like Bootstrap, but in 30kb

https://github.com/cbrauckmuller/helium

13 years ago

★ 978 JavaScript
125 upvotes – 40 comments

Hydrogen made with muons reveals proton size conundrum

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/hydrogen-made-with-muons-reveals-proton-size-conundrum/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 40 comments

SpaceX to Launch Private Astronauts in 2015

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/01/11/spacex-launch-astronauts-2016/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111073

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 147 comments

You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov?

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/01/an-idea-that-changed-the-world/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-01/0221.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments

Any HN readers have ideas for improving gun safety?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106682

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 180 comments

Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/quantopian-brings-algorithmic-trading-to-masses/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

One Billion Heartbeats

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5701/does-every-species-get-around-a-billion-heartbeats-on-average

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

CircuitHub (YC W12) Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Electrical Parts

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/backed-by-y-combinator-and-google-ventures-circuithub-aims-to-be-a-one-stop-shop-for-electrical-parts/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Thredis is Redis + SQL + Threads

http://thredis.org/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

A/B Testing Rigorously (without losing your job)

http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part1-rigorous.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Why I'm glad my iPhone broke

http://sirupsen.com/iphone/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 103 comments

FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4Mjc

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21178718

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 108 comments

From Google News to the Chicago Tribune: Observations after a month

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/tribnation/chi-google-news-to-chicago-tribune-20130123,0,4503590.story

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

The true power of regular expressions

http://nikic.github.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

GitHub now supports Twitter Cards

https://github.com/blog/1388-github-now-supports-twitter-cards

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Analytics for Everyone

https://sumall.com/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

http://zigg.be/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 48 comments

Google testing new wireless network, asks FCC to keep details secret

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/google-testing-new-wireless-network-asks-fcc-to-keep-details-secret/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

I Support the WebKit Monoculture

http://jeremyckahn.github.com/blog/2013/01/23/i-support-the-webkit-monoculture/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 95 comments

Fangle - reactive text generation from markdown

http://jotux.github.com/fangle/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Erlang distributed node in Go

https://github.com/goerlang/node

13 years ago

★ 305 Go
70 upvotes – 8 comments

Node, Twitter, and Apologies

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

Alan Cox – Fedora 18 seems to be the worst Red Hat distro I've ever seen

https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/aCiB7kTLXTh

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

The trouble with social news

http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/trouble-with-social-news.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote

http://allthingsd.com/20130124/automattic-buys-simpermium-maker-of-simplenote/?mod=tweet

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Gmail's Second Major Problem

http://www.kapilkale.com/blog/gmails-second-major-problem/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 72 comments
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