The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2013
We track 721 stories from January 2013, averaging 223 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 19 stories. Together they drew 68,363 comments.
1
Aaron Swartz commits suicide
tech.mit.edu · bfaviero · 12 Jan 2013
2.1k pts
546 comments
2
What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
harthur.wordpress.com · luigi · 24 Jan 2013
1.3k pts
781 comments
3
Prosecutor as bully
lessig.tumblr.com · guan · 12 Jan 2013
1.2k pts
260 comments
4
Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
JaneLovesDotNet · 10 Jan 2013
1.1k pts
377 comments
5
Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
istartedsomething.com · longzheng · 15 Jan 2013
1.1k pts
455 comments
6
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
coderwall.com · bitsweet · 29 Jan 2013
956 pts
178 comments
7
Why the Fuck?
raganwald.posterous.com · mehulkar · 20 Jan 2013
911 pts
499 comments
8
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
blogs.smithsonianmag.com · Anon84 · 29 Jan 2013
842 pts
244 comments
9
The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
unhandled.com · secalex · 12 Jan 2013
837 pts
89 comments
10
I want the world to scroll this way
magicscroll.net · rdwallis · 11 Jan 2013
832 pts
299 comments
11
Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
petitions.whitehouse.gov · ovechtrick · 2 Jan 2013
820 pts
530 comments
12
Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office
petitions.whitehouse.gov · olefoo · 12 Jan 2013
801 pts
234 comments
13
Pixels don’t care
warpspire.com · dpearson · 28 Jan 2013
764 pts
133 comments
14
Megafail
fail0verflow.com · comex · 23 Jan 2013
738 pts
198 comments
15
Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit
ycombinator.com · pg · 25 Jan 2013
705 pts
168 comments
16
Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw
news.nationalpost.com · lasercat · 21 Jan 2013
696 pts
300 comments
17
Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz
rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com · mxfh · 12 Jan 2013
682 pts
144 comments
18
Tron Legacy (2010)
jtnimoy.net · rsingla · 21 Jan 2013
657 pts
143 comments
19
If I get hit by a truck...
aaronsw.com · artursapek · 12 Jan 2013
651 pts
50 comments
20
How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
arstechnica.com · govind201 · 27 Jan 2013
638 pts
134 comments
21
Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
techcrunch.com · martinoma · 14 Jan 2013
635 pts
469 comments
22
An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS
learn.shayhowe.com · shay-howe · 14 Jan 2013
635 pts
99 comments
23
Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee
lists.w3.org · edsu · 12 Jan 2013
610 pts
30 comments
24
What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
jasonevanish.com · jevanish · 17 Jan 2013
592 pts
558 comments
25
Sublime Text 3 Beta
sublimetext.com · conorh · 29 Jan 2013
589 pts
360 comments
26
Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz
boingboing.net · Argorak · 12 Jan 2013
570 pts
20 comments
27
Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
mashable.com · bluetidepro · 24 Jan 2013
537 pts
357 comments
28
Stripe Checkout
stripe.com · illdave · 18 Jan 2013
536 pts
171 comments
29
A Short Rant About Working Remotely
ericfarkas.com · speric · 31 Jan 2013
528 pts
326 comments
30
Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early
nanex.net · HockeyPlayer · 31 Jan 2013
526 pts
282 comments
31
Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
Pitarou · 12 Jan 2013
519 pts
158 comments
32
Ubuntu for phones
ubuntu.com · llambda · 2 Jan 2013
513 pts
156 comments
33
Actual Facebook Graph Searches
actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com · ig1 · 23 Jan 2013
509 pts
239 comments
34
"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
erlang.org · chops · 24 Jan 2013
506 pts
176 comments
35
A time for silence
lessig.tumblr.com · danielpal · 18 Jan 2013
500 pts
98 comments
36
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
npr.org · tmoretti · 17 Jan 2013
489 pts
203 comments
37
Let's black bar HN
flocial · 12 Jan 2013
483 pts
75 comments
38
Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
engadget.com · blacktulip · 2 Jan 2013
474 pts
207 comments
39
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
suicidepreventionlifeline.org · sethbannon · 12 Jan 2013
472 pts
52 comments
40
Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?
asserttrue.blogspot.com · techdog · 30 Jan 2013
471 pts
138 comments
41
1/13 noon at MIT: Protest wrongful prosecution of Aaron Swartz
maps.google.com · hendler · 13 Jan 2013
469 pts
83 comments
42
MIT President on Aaron Swartz
pastebin.com · jefftchan · 13 Jan 2013
467 pts
209 comments
43
Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
regexper.com · trevmex · 2 Jan 2013
466 pts
127 comments
44
I'm sorry
programmingtour.blogspot.com · eranation · 24 Jan 2013
463 pts
177 comments
45
_why's site is back up
whytheluckystiff.net · aaronbrethorst · 6 Jan 2013
453 pts
152 comments
46
In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
eff.org · colin_jack · 14 Jan 2013
452 pts
85 comments
47
Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz
sciencecitizen.org · denzil_correa · 13 Jan 2013
448 pts
51 comments
48
Aaron's Army
public.resource.org · mikeleeorg · 25 Jan 2013
440 pts
39 comments
49
How do keys work? Explained in one Gif
theultralinx.com · macalicious · 22 Jan 2013
436 pts
78 comments
50
How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
asserttrue.blogspot.com · techdog · 1 Jan 2013
433 pts
151 comments
51
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
damienkatz.net · daschl1 · 10 Jan 2013
431 pts
384 comments
52
Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack
groups.google.com · jfirebaugh · 8 Jan 2013
427 pts
281 comments
53
Web Developer Checklist
webdevchecklist.com · grantpalin · 7 Jan 2013
426 pts
75 comments
54
Safari is released to the world
donmelton.com · olivercameron · 11 Jan 2013
425 pts
120 comments
55
A New Look for Facebook
behance.net · guptaneil · 3 Jan 2013
424 pts
215 comments
56
Save your eyes, start using f.lux
stereopsis.com · jarospisak · 10 Jan 2013
423 pts
255 comments
57
Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
advancednflstats.com · edw519 · 3 Jan 2013
421 pts
101 comments
58
Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz
bostonherald.com · hudibras · 25 Jan 2013
419 pts
142 comments
59
My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved
quinnnorton.com · rufo · 12 Jan 2013
419 pts
40 comments
60
John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style
kotaku.com · mohaps · 14 Jan 2013
416 pts
206 comments