Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Thursday Mar 29, 2012

0.987 Anonymous to shut down Internet over SOPA comments

0.909 Half of American Homes Own at Least One Apple Product comments

0.901 Foxconn Pledges Big Changes in Working Conditions comments

0.893 Start-Ups Try to Crack Education Market comments

0.872 How does HBO make money on expensive shows only 3 million people watch? comments

0.858 Don’t write plumbing code for your startup comments

0.857 How to build irresistible social casino games comments

0.796 FLA finds serious labor law violations at Foxconn comments

0.770 Foxconn Auditor Finds ‘Serious’ Violations of Chinese Law comments

0.760 How Strings Are Implemented In SpiderMonkey comments

0.723 Saying You Can’t Compete With Free Is Saying You Can’t Compete Period comments

0.704 Busy Building Things, a new brand for startups comments

0.693 Social Media Blasphemy comments

0.629 Fexl version b24 released comments

0.618 Effective examples of startup commercials comments

0.607 Simple Ideas comments

0.605 RIM begins laying off high-level staff: source - The Globe and Mail comments

0.600 Qualcomm Calls To ‘Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good’ comments

0.589 RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO out comments

0.554 Facebook Ads Guide - The Guide To Advertising On Facebook By Jonathan Volk comments

0.533 Tech Culture: More Legos and Less Punch Buggy comments

0.500 HackThisSite Basic Missions 01 Solution comments

0.476 If WSJ had a Mashable style Twitter avatar… comments

0.467 Como ganar dinero promocionando productos de Clickbank comments

0.452 Gimp 2.8: So Close, Yet So Far, Yet So Close comments

0.449 Getting Older comments

0.446 Budget means the penny’s days are numbered In Canada comments

0.393 Stick to Your Minimum Monthly Payment When Buying a Car from a Dealership comments

0.391 Sources of Randomness for Userspace comments

0.338 Organic SEO Services comments

0.309 Client Request Generator comments

0.286 A discussion of the perils of ITT Tech and National Accreditation comments

0.278 Edge-preserving self-healing: keeping network backbones densely connected (pdf) comments

0.260 Where good ideas come from comments

0.247 I used Timeline to present my CV comments

0.246 We’ve dropped the www. comments

0.228 ReTweet to/from Facebook comments

0.210 Google’s Grand Plan comments

0.192 Rare ’70s Electronic Music Is Hidden in The Hunger Games comments

0.179 Could 3d Printing Eclipse Manufacturing? comments

0.155 Screen Rage is the New Road Rage comments

0.154 3D fMRI Promises Deeper Neuroscience comments

0.127 Rate my startup: LiveLoop comments

0.117 The Microsoft IP tussle over Android comments

0.103 Google Has Profited Four Times More From iPhone Than Android comments

0.058 Knight News Challenge - Cont3nt.com lets you sell media in real-time via Twitter comments

0.051 FLA SECURES COMMITMENT TO LIMIT WORKERS’ HOURS, PROTECT PAY AT FOXCONN comments

0.029 Apple’s 3D camera concept would capture & recreate images comments

0.029 House votes down stopping employers asking for Facebook passwords comments

0.024 Ask HN: Is there something to Social Customer Service? comments

0.018 Ask HN: NY lottery $500 Million - Why do people insist on buying tickets? comments

0.017 No, Google didn’t make 4x off the iPhone versus Android comments

0.010 CrowdCall, the first easy to use group calling app for iPhone and Android comments

0.004 Ask HN: What companies were rejected from YC and became successsful? comments

0.001 Ask HN: Best Kickstarter Incentive for App Store? comments