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Top of Month - Jan 2012

1. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
   (20 Jan 2012 | 2060 points | Comments)

2. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
   (18 Jan 2012 | 1179 points | Comments)

3. PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
   (3 Jan 2012 | 988 points | Comments)

4. Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
   (16 Jan 2012 | 951 points | Comments)

5. Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
   (10 Jan 2012 | 922 points | Comments)

6. Why I'm a Pirate
   (18 Jan 2012 | 857 points | Comments)

7. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
   (27 Jan 2012 | 857 points | Comments)

8. Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
   (26 Jan 2012 | 754 points | Comments)

9. Google, what were you thinking?
   (13 Jan 2012 | 751 points | Comments)

10. The Five Stages of Hosting
    (30 Jan 2012 | 747 points | Comments)

11. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
    (2 Jan 2012 | 731 points | Comments)

12. No New Accounts Today
    (18 Jan 2012 | 718 points | Comments)

13. Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up
    (21 Jan 2012 | 709 points | Comments)

14. Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
    (19 Jan 2012 | 698 points | Comments)

15. A simple guide for getting started with git
    (9 Jan 2012 | 665 points | Comments)

16. What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
    (29 Jan 2012 | 663 points | Comments)

17. How to nap
    (10 Jan 2012 | 647 points | Comments)

18. Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers
    (5 Jan 2012 | 605 points | Comments)

19. Schlep Blindness
    (14 Jan 2012 | 604 points | Comments)

20. Stop SOAP
    (18 Jan 2012 | 598 points | Comments)

21. Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
    (23 Jan 2012 | 596 points | Comments)

22. Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations
    (1 Jan 2012 | 594 points | Comments)

23. Waking up at 5am to code
    (23 Jan 2012 | 594 points | Comments)

24. This is why I don't give you a job
    (7 Jan 2012 | 588 points | Comments)

25. Congressman blacks out his official .gov website
    (18 Jan 2012 | 587 points | Comments)

26. Maddox - I hope SOPA passes
    (19 Jan 2012 | 569 points | Comments)

27. The next SOPA
    (20 Jan 2012 | 558 points | Comments)

28. Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
    (10 Jan 2012 | 556 points | Comments)

29. Cars kill cities
    (26 Jan 2012 | 553 points | Comments)

30. Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
    (11 Jan 2012 | 536 points | Comments)

31. This photograph is free
    (11 Jan 2012 | 530 points | Comments)

32. Resolutions for programmers
    (3 Jan 2012 | 521 points | Comments)

33. MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks
    (21 Jan 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

34. Wat
    (26 Jan 2012 | 512 points | Comments)

35. Wikipedia blackout page
    (18 Jan 2012 | 507 points | Comments)

36. Google will protest SOPA using home page
    (17 Jan 2012 | 502 points | Comments)

37. Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
    (18 Jan 2012 | 491 points | Comments)

38. Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
    (31 Jan 2012 | 490 points | Comments)

39. A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.
    (4 Jan 2012 | 486 points | Comments)

40. SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb.
    (17 Jan 2012 | 483 points | Comments)

41. Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page
    (18 Jan 2012 | 482 points | Comments)

42. Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work
    (31 Jan 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

43. A Word to the Resourceful
    (19 Jan 2012 | 463 points | Comments)

44. Google's Kenyan ripoff?
    (13 Jan 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

45. SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
    (17 Jan 2012 | 447 points | Comments)

46. How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
    (21 Jan 2012 | 446 points | Comments)

47. Android Design
    (12 Jan 2012 | 437 points | Comments)

48. Programming prodigy passes away at 16
    (15 Jan 2012 | 436 points | Comments)

49. This Photograph Is Not Free
    (11 Jan 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

50. The Trello Tech Stack
    (19 Jan 2012 | 431 points | Comments)

51. List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
    (8 Jan 2012 | 430 points | Comments)

52. Python for Humans
    (3 Jan 2012 | 427 points | Comments)

53. TVs are all awful
    (3 Jan 2012 | 416 points | Comments)

54. Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
    (20 Jan 2012 | 416 points | Comments)

55. Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
    (24 Jan 2012 | 416 points | Comments)

56. Html5please
    (23 Jan 2012 | 415 points | Comments)

57. A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students
    (5 Jan 2012 | 414 points | Comments)

58. ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
    (22 Jan 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

59. Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking
    (23 Jan 2012 | 410 points | Comments)

60. Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit
    (25 Jan 2012 | 401 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Scrollorama
    (1 Jan 2012 | 395 points | Comments)

62. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
    (24 Jan 2012 | 391 points | Comments)

63. Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
    (20 Jan 2012 | 390 points | Comments)

64. SOPA 'shelved' until consensus is found
    (16 Jan 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

65. Ryan Dahl steps down
    (30 Jan 2012 | 387 points | Comments)

66. The author of SOPA is a copyright violator
    (12 Jan 2012 | 383 points | Comments)

67. Google responds to the Mocality blog post
    (13 Jan 2012 | 380 points | Comments)

68. Hastebin
    (24 Jan 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

69. If your client has a problem with a site, send them here and ask for details
    (29 Jan 2012 | 377 points | Comments)

70. I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?
    (4 Jan 2012 | 374 points | Comments)

71. How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
    (27 Jan 2012 | 370 points | Comments)

72. Death sentence for Iranian web programmer
    (19 Jan 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

73. US bars friends over Twitter joke
    (30 Jan 2012 | 368 points | Comments)

74. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
    (21 Jan 2012 | 366 points | Comments)

75. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music
    (19 Jan 2012 | 365 points | Comments)

76. Show HN: my database engine for GPU
    (26 Jan 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

77. UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
    (25 Jan 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

78. Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu
    (24 Jan 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

79. JSON will be a core type in PostgreSQL 9.2
    (16 Jan 2012 | 358 points | Comments)

80. Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
    (4 Jan 2012 | 357 points | Comments)

81. Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think
    (30 Jan 2012 | 352 points | Comments)

82. Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident
    (18 Jan 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

83. Scaling GitHub
    (26 Jan 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

84. Elsevier = Evil
    (17 Jan 2012 | 347 points | Comments)

85. Why I Hate Android
    (10 Jan 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

86. MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number
    (20 Jan 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

87. A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising
    (2 Jan 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

88. My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought
    (13 Jan 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

89. I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.
    (11 Jan 2012 | 342 points | Comments)

90. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows
    (18 Jan 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

91. Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
    (11 Jan 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

92. How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
    (23 Jan 2012 | 338 points | Comments)

93. Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup.
    (20 Jan 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

94. Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this
    (24 Jan 2012 | 334 points | Comments)

95. The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
    (2 Jan 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

96. Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
    (14 Jan 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

97. DuckDuckGo gets a new look
    (13 Jan 2012 | 331 points | Comments)

98. Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis
    (6 Jan 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

99. Raspberry Pi: We’ve started manufacture
    (10 Jan 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

100. New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
     (13 Jan 2012 | 329 points | Comments)