The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2012

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Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. ycombinator.com · dzlobin · 20 Jan 2012

2.1k pts 665 comments

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Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor tumblr.amitgupta.com · nwest · 18 Jan 2012

1.2k pts 100 comments

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PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute regretsy.com · tfe · 3 Jan 2012

988 pts 289 comments

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Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA thenextweb.com · minecraftman · 16 Jan 2012

951 pts 192 comments

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Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA blog.reddit.com · lindowe · 10 Jan 2012

922 pts 150 comments

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Why I'm a Pirate ploum.net · tbassetto · 18 Jan 2012

857 pts 514 comments

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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split lists.busybox.net · sciurus · 27 Jan 2012

857 pts 151 comments

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Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result iheartchaos.com · kenver · 26 Jan 2012

754 pts 90 comments

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Google, what were you thinking? blog.mocality.co.ke · swombat · 13 Jan 2012

751 pts 143 comments

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The Five Stages of Hosting blog.pinboard.in · stilist · 30 Jan 2012

747 pts 179 comments

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Richard Stallman Was Right All Along osnews.com · thomholwerda · 2 Jan 2012

731 pts 226 comments

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No New Accounts Today pg · 18 Jan 2012

718 pts 94 comments

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Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up plus.google.com · johnthedebs · 21 Jan 2012

709 pts 172 comments

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Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy online.wsj.com · waitwhat · 19 Jan 2012

698 pts 337 comments

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A simple guide for getting started with git rogerdudler.github.com · Brajeshwar · 9 Jan 2012

665 pts 129 comments

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What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies? aaronklein.com · aaronklein · 29 Jan 2012

663 pts 112 comments

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How to nap boston.com · ozzzy · 10 Jan 2012

647 pts 133 comments

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Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers 37signals.com · teaspoon · 5 Jan 2012

605 pts 423 comments

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Schlep Blindness paulgraham.com · anateus · 14 Jan 2012

604 pts 181 comments

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Stop SOAP stopsoap.com · llambda · 18 Jan 2012

598 pts 67 comments

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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued kalzumeus.com · llambda · 23 Jan 2012

596 pts 193 comments

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Waking up at 5am to code mattgreer.org · city41 · 23 Jan 2012

594 pts 198 comments

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Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations github.com · ramanujam · 1 Jan 2012

594 pts 65 comments

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This is why I don't give you a job andorjakab.blog.hu · fourspace · 7 Jan 2012

588 pts 529 comments

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Congressman blacks out his official .gov website blumenauer.house.gov · sethbannon · 18 Jan 2012

587 pts 38 comments

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Maddox - I hope SOPA passes maddox.xmission.com · CWIZO · 19 Jan 2012

569 pts 198 comments

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The next SOPA marco.org · dpkendal · 20 Jan 2012

558 pts 165 comments

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Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope cuttherope.ie · jkbr · 10 Jan 2012

556 pts 124 comments

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Cars kill cities progressivetransit.wordpress.com · ajju · 26 Jan 2012

553 pts 336 comments

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Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish plus.google.com · dlikhten · 11 Jan 2012

536 pts 154 comments

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This photograph is free standblog.org · aclark · 11 Jan 2012

530 pts 143 comments

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Resolutions for programmers matt.might.net · fogus · 3 Jan 2012

521 pts 152 comments

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MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks techdirt.com · nextparadigms · 21 Jan 2012

514 pts 105 comments

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Wat destroyallsoftware.com · abahgat · 26 Jan 2012

512 pts 98 comments

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Wikipedia blackout page en.wikipedia.org · pitdesi · 18 Jan 2012

507 pts 113 comments

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Google will protest SOPA using home page news.cnet.com · GBond · 17 Jan 2012

502 pts 104 comments

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Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA khanacademy.org · marcia · 18 Jan 2012

491 pts 65 comments

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Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS learn.shayhowe.com · adangit · 31 Jan 2012

490 pts 75 comments

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A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan. npr.org · slamdunc · 4 Jan 2012

486 pts 100 comments

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SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb. judiciary.house.gov · cjoh · 17 Jan 2012

483 pts 56 comments

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Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page google.com · Jarred · 18 Jan 2012

482 pts 65 comments

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Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work kentnguyen.com · kentnguyen · 31 Jan 2012

474 pts 128 comments

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A Word to the Resourceful paulgraham.com · anateus · 19 Jan 2012

463 pts 168 comments

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Google's Kenyan ripoff? boingboing.net · Chirag · 13 Jan 2012

457 pts 99 comments

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SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power" arstechnica.com · john2373 · 17 Jan 2012

447 pts 155 comments

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How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work nytimes.com · wallflower · 21 Jan 2012

446 pts 307 comments

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Android Design developer.android.com · rtsuk · 12 Jan 2012

437 pts 137 comments

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Programming prodigy passes away at 16 digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com · prajjwal · 15 Jan 2012

436 pts 114 comments

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This Photograph Is Not Free petapixel.com · Brajeshwar · 11 Jan 2012

435 pts 254 comments

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The Trello Tech Stack blog.fogcreek.com · elehack · 19 Jan 2012

431 pts 93 comments

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List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations sopaopera.org · sgaither · 8 Jan 2012

430 pts 121 comments

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Python for Humans python-for-humans.heroku.com · craigkerstiens · 3 Jan 2012

427 pts 106 comments

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Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else pandodaily.com · benjlang · 24 Jan 2012

416 pts 285 comments

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TVs are all awful mjg59.dreamwidth.org · sciurus · 3 Jan 2012

416 pts 160 comments

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Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA technolog.msnbc.msn.com · aepstein · 20 Jan 2012

416 pts 156 comments

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Html5please html5please.us · cleverjake · 23 Jan 2012

415 pts 34 comments

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A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students reddit.com · jimmyjim · 5 Jan 2012

414 pts 103 comments

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ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content en.wikipedia.org · nextparadigms · 22 Jan 2012

412 pts 191 comments

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Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking wired.com · ck2 · 23 Jan 2012

410 pts 115 comments

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Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit mongout.com · bwm · 25 Jan 2012

401 pts 138 comments