top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-25

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html

13 years ago

705 upvotes – 168 comments

Aaron's Army

https://public.resource.org/aaron/army/

13 years ago

440 upvotes – 39 comments

Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/triumphant_motel_owner_slams_carmen_ortiz

13 years ago

419 upvotes – 142 comments

Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4MzE

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 156 comments

A note from Keith

http://keithrabois.tumblr.com/post/41463189288/a-note-from-keith

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 157 comments

Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers

http://port3000.co.uk/google-has-indexed-thousands-of-publicly-acce

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 141 comments

The Bicycle Barometer

http://blog.oftcc.net/post/39219681688/the-bicycle-barometer-takes-data-about-the

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 40 comments

Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-financial-crisis/untouchables/blowing-the-whistle-on-the-mortgage-bubble/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 172 comments

Adioso is reinventing travel search. Check these never-before-possible searches

http://adioso.com/blog/2013/01/a-year-ago-no-travel-site-in-the-world-could-answer-these-flight-searches/

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 118 comments

Fuck it, I'll Do This Alone

http://blog.bucketlistly.com/post/41442384591/fuck-it-ill-do-this-alone

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 110 comments

Easy way to build product tours with Bootstrap

http://sorich87.github.com/bootstrap-tour/index.html

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 45 comments

Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible Panasonic webcams

http://tlrobinson.net/projects/bigbrother/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 59 comments

Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

http://jakiestfu.github.com/Behave.js/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 72 comments

Tips to accelerate SSL

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/01/25/5-easy-tips-to-accelerate-ssl/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 37 comments

How mandatory minimum sentences distort plea bargaining

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21570742-how-mandatory-minimum-sentences-distort-plea-bargaining-thumb-scale

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 78 comments

University of Wisconsin to offer degrees based on tested ability

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578255992379228564.html/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 96 comments

The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (2009)

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-city-in-the-u-s/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 121 comments

Apple fires Chinese supplier for using underage workers

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/apple-fires-chinese-supplier-for-using-underage-workers/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 99 comments

Segment.io (YC S11) Lets Developers Integrate Multiple Analytics Services

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/yc-backed-segment-io-lets-developers-integrate-with-multiple-analytics-providers-in-hours-not-weeks/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Backgrid: A featureful grid UI for Backbone.js

http://wyuenho.github.com/backgrid/#examples

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 28 comments

A List Apart 5.0

http://alistapart.com/article/a-list-apart-relaunches-new-features-new-design

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 85 comments

The IDE as a value

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

BitTorrent reveals Sync, a new file synchronization tool

http://thenextweb.com/2013/01/25/bittorrent-launches-sync-in-pre-alpha-a-new-app-to-compete-with-dropbox-and-icloud/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Hype Machine - 5+ years of Internet music history

http://blog.hypem.com/2013/01/time-machine-dive-into-5-years-of-music-history/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners

http://codinginmysleep.com/dwolla-begins-suspensions/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Algorithms that design structures better than engineers

http://jordanburgess.com/post/41386795824/topology-optimisation

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

License Haiku

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000360

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

Is Tokaido (rails.app) Dead?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp/comments

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Square's Keith Rabois Resigns Amid Sexual-Harassment Claims

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324539304578264153187663828-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 89 comments

Stack Overflow User Survey Results

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/01/2012-stack-overflow-user-survey-results/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Git repository of New Zealand legislation

https://github.com/Br3nda/legislation/tree/master/act/public

13 years ago

★ 57
91 upvotes – 19 comments

“Dashan,” the Canadian Comedian Who Achieved Stardom in China

http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/meet_dashan_the_canadian_comedian_who_achieved_accidental_stardom_in_china.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Antigua could hit U.S. with copyright-free downloads

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/25/us-usa-antigua-copyright-idUSBRE90O0YR20130125

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Dear Facebook: Please learn how to design Android apps that don't suck

http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/21684/facebook-android-apps

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

If you need Java, use this one instead

http://www.zdnet.com/if-you-need-java-use-this-one-instead-7000010157/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

Finnish campaigners seek crowdsourced change to copyright legislation

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/24/finland-copyright-law-crowdsource

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Secrets in the code

https://github.com/blog/1390-secrets-in-the-code

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/24/170160105/if-you-think-youre-good-at-multitasking-you-probably-arent

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments
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