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Top of Month - Jan 2013

1. Aaron Swartz commits suicide
   (12 Jan 2013 | 2103 points | Comments)

2. What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
   (24 Jan 2013 | 1331 points | Comments)

3. Prosecutor as bully
   (12 Jan 2013 | 1200 points | Comments)

4. Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
   (10 Jan 2013 | 1088 points | Comments)

5. Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
   (15 Jan 2013 | 1065 points | Comments)

6. Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
   (29 Jan 2013 | 956 points | Comments)

7. Why the Fuck?
   (20 Jan 2013 | 911 points | Comments)

8. For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
   (29 Jan 2013 | 842 points | Comments)

9. The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
   (12 Jan 2013 | 837 points | Comments)

10. I want the world to scroll this way
    (11 Jan 2013 | 832 points | Comments)

11. Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
    (2 Jan 2013 | 820 points | Comments)

12. Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office
    (12 Jan 2013 | 801 points | Comments)

13. Pixels don’t care
    (28 Jan 2013 | 764 points | Comments)

14. Megafail
    (23 Jan 2013 | 738 points | Comments)

15. Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit
    (25 Jan 2013 | 705 points | Comments)

16. Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw
    (21 Jan 2013 | 696 points | Comments)

17. Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz
    (12 Jan 2013 | 682 points | Comments)

18. Tron Legacy (2010)
    (21 Jan 2013 | 657 points | Comments)

19. If I get hit by a truck...
    (12 Jan 2013 | 651 points | Comments)

20. How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
    (27 Jan 2013 | 638 points | Comments)

21. An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS
    (14 Jan 2013 | 635 points | Comments)

22. Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
    (14 Jan 2013 | 635 points | Comments)

23. Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee
    (12 Jan 2013 | 610 points | Comments)

24. What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
    (17 Jan 2013 | 592 points | Comments)

25. Sublime Text 3 Beta
    (29 Jan 2013 | 589 points | Comments)

26. Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz
    (12 Jan 2013 | 570 points | Comments)

27. Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
    (24 Jan 2013 | 537 points | Comments)

28. Stripe Checkout
    (18 Jan 2013 | 536 points | Comments)

29. A Short Rant About Working Remotely
    (31 Jan 2013 | 528 points | Comments)

30. Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early
    (31 Jan 2013 | 526 points | Comments)

31. Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
    (12 Jan 2013 | 519 points | Comments)

32. Ubuntu for phones
    (2 Jan 2013 | 513 points | Comments)

33. Actual Facebook Graph Searches
    (23 Jan 2013 | 509 points | Comments)

34. "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
    (24 Jan 2013 | 506 points | Comments)

35. A time for silence
    (18 Jan 2013 | 500 points | Comments)

36. A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
    (17 Jan 2013 | 489 points | Comments)

37. Let's black bar HN
    (12 Jan 2013 | 483 points | Comments)

38. Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
    (2 Jan 2013 | 474 points | Comments)

39. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
    (12 Jan 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

40. Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?
    (30 Jan 2013 | 471 points | Comments)

41. 1/13 noon at MIT: Protest wrongful prosecution of Aaron Swartz
    (13 Jan 2013 | 469 points | Comments)

42. MIT President on Aaron Swartz
    (13 Jan 2013 | 467 points | Comments)

43. Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
    (2 Jan 2013 | 466 points | Comments)

44. I'm sorry
    (24 Jan 2013 | 463 points | Comments)

45. _why's site is back up
    (6 Jan 2013 | 453 points | Comments)

46. In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
    (14 Jan 2013 | 452 points | Comments)

47. Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz
    (13 Jan 2013 | 448 points | Comments)

48. Aaron's Army
    (25 Jan 2013 | 440 points | Comments)

49. How do keys work? Explained in one Gif
    (22 Jan 2013 | 436 points | Comments)

50. How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
    (1 Jan 2013 | 433 points | Comments)

51. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
    (10 Jan 2013 | 431 points | Comments)

52. Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack
    (8 Jan 2013 | 427 points | Comments)

53. Web Developer Checklist
    (7 Jan 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

54. Safari is released to the world
    (11 Jan 2013 | 425 points | Comments)

55. A New Look for Facebook
    (3 Jan 2013 | 424 points | Comments)

56. Save your eyes, start using f.lux
    (10 Jan 2013 | 423 points | Comments)

57. Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
    (3 Jan 2013 | 421 points | Comments)

58. My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved
    (12 Jan 2013 | 419 points | Comments)

59. Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz
    (25 Jan 2013 | 419 points | Comments)

60. John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style
    (14 Jan 2013 | 416 points | Comments)

61. Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?
    (21 Jan 2013 | 413 points | Comments)

62. I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
    (16 Jan 2013 | 409 points | Comments)

63. JSTOR torrent
    (12 Jan 2013 | 407 points | Comments)

64. Rubygems.org compromised
    (30 Jan 2013 | 405 points | Comments)

65. SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions
    (2 Jan 2013 | 402 points | Comments)

66. Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research
    (13 Jan 2013 | 402 points | Comments)

67. What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
    (31 Jan 2013 | 401 points | Comments)

68. Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away
    (10 Jan 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

69. Did porn warp me forever?
    (13 Jan 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
    (31 Jan 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

71. Introducing Graph Search
    (15 Jan 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

72. Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
    (30 Jan 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

73. U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz
    (18 Jan 2013 | 394 points | Comments)

74. OXO, Crooks and Robbers?
    (26 Jan 2013 | 389 points | Comments)

75. IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
    (10 Jan 2013 | 388 points | Comments)

76. Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video]
    (7 Jan 2013 | 386 points | Comments)

77. US employee 'outsourced job to China'
    (16 Jan 2013 | 383 points | Comments)

78. Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out
    (19 Jan 2013 | 383 points | Comments)

79. Getting Started with Django
    (22 Jan 2013 | 383 points | Comments)

80. How Lisp is Going to Save the World
    (9 Jan 2013 | 382 points | Comments)

81. How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
    (21 Jan 2013 | 382 points | Comments)

82. Minimal wireframing tool - for free
    (4 Jan 2013 | 374 points | Comments)

83. That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer
    (31 Jan 2013 | 371 points | Comments)

84. This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
    (12 Jan 2013 | 370 points | Comments)

85. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case
    (17 Jan 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

86. Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe
    (30 Jan 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

87. Jonathan James
    (13 Jan 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

88. Programmer Interrupted
    (21 Jan 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

89. A Whole New Code Search
    (23 Jan 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

90. Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
    (15 Jan 2013 | 365 points | Comments)

91. An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4
    (4 Jan 2013 | 364 points | Comments)

92. A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates
    (22 Jan 2013 | 363 points | Comments)

93. The sound of the dialup, pictured
    (30 Jan 2013 | 363 points | Comments)

94. Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance
    (3 Jan 2013 | 362 points | Comments)

95. Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
    (10 Jan 2013 | 359 points | Comments)

96. How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?
    (28 Jan 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

97. Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26
    (12 Jan 2013 | 356 points | Comments)

98. Sophie In North Korea
    (19 Jan 2013 | 356 points | Comments)

99. Don’t believe everything you read
    (23 Jan 2013 | 355 points | Comments)

100. What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
     (22 Jan 2013 | 351 points | Comments)