top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-24

Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

https://www.eff.org//deeplinks/2015/01/britons-you-have-72-hours-stop-snoopers-charter

11 years ago

700 upvotes – 105 comments

The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics

http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-lesson-in.html

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 216 comments

Open Food Facts – A free food products database

http://world.openfoodfacts.org

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 93 comments

LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 215 comments

Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 50 comments

Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/23/purism-aims-to-build-a-philosophically-pure-laptop/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 140 comments

When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/when-the-boss-says-dont-tell-your-coworkers-how-much-you-get-paid/374467/?single_page=true

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 232 comments

Hipster Logo Generator

http://www.hipsterlogogenerator.com/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 42 comments

Building Classic Mac OS Apps in OS X

http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/109040361205/mpw-carbon-and-building-classic-mac-os-apps-in-os

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 20 comments

Tough Times on the Road to StarCraft

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

Back to the iPhone 5S

http://technologynotes.net/blog/back-to-the-iphone5s

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939714

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 82 comments

Code, Eval, Play, Loop – Common Lisp OpenGL Environment

https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl

11 years ago

★ 886 Common Lisp BSD-2-Clause
139 upvotes – 18 comments

Making graphene affordable

http://delta.tudelft.nl/article/making-graphene-affordable/29377

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 4 comments

Octothorpe

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 13 comments

Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/know-run-story-behind-xmas-kings-cross-problems/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939328

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 94 comments

The hazards of too much stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30849473

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 56 comments

Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk

http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/39/built-on-sand-singapore-and-the-new-state-of-risk

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/small-bountiful-small-business-craft-beer

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments
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