top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-26

Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/

15 years ago

1074 upvotes – 279 comments

Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485029

15 years ago

442 upvotes – 164 comments

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity/#

15 years ago

285 upvotes – 187 comments

SETI Institute suspends search for aliens

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_17926565

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 100 comments

Pixar's Library

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 32 comments

Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

http://www.railshotline.com/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 62 comments

How to beat Apple

http://kottke.org/11/04/how-to-beat-apple

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 118 comments

Protip for salary seekers pt 2: Results from some mining of the H1-B database

http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/136-Data-mining-H-1B-salary-data.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 74 comments

Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies

http://hackertyper.net/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 43 comments

A “perfect” voting system

http://www.drmaciver.com/2011/04/a-perfect-voting-system/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 146 comments

Richard Feynman on education in Brazil

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

How to write a Haskell program

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 32 comments

Google acquires TalkBin (YC W11)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/google-acquires-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-thats-only-five-months-old/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Usefulness of inventing programming languages

http://emilis.github.com/2011/04/12/usefullnes-of-inventing-languages.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

AWK-ward Ruby

http://tomayko.com/writings/awkward-ruby

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

The Sagan Series: A Pale Blue Dot

http://saganseries.com/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

The myth of the Lisp genius

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/04/26/the-myth-of-the-lisp-genius/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 108 comments

Warning: How Google Checkout Screwed Project Zomboid

http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/warning-how-google-checkout-screwed-project-zomboid

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

Forking with the Edit Button

https://github.com/blog/844-forking-with-the-edit-button

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

1 + 1 (pat. pending) — Mathematics, Software and Free Speech

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110426051819346

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Your personal corkboard

http://corkboard.me/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Is 80-100k salary real? there's an app for that, a weekend project

http://geolary.com

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485474

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 93 comments

Response to John Cook's "Myth of the Lisp Genius"

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/04/is-it-lisp-or-is-it-me.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

The scoop on reCAPTCHA founder's new startup Duolingo.

http://tedxcmu.com/videos/luis-von-ahn

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

I Hope You Don’t Have a Borders Rewards Card

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/i-hope-you-dont-have-a-borders-rewards-card_b9719

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Visualize your iPhone's location tracking map in 100% client-side Javascript

http://markolson.github.com/js-sqlite-map-thing/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Why not Lua

http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011.html#Why_not_Lua

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

Signal processing to music audio -- synthesis, effects, and analysis.

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/e4896/outline.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Shutter - excellent screenshot tool for linux

http://shutter-project.org/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook - The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/494

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 53 comments

Greplin (YC W10) AWS Benchmarks and Best Practices

http://tech.blog.greplin.com/aws-best-practices-and-benchmarks

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Flattr - I want to give you my money

http://www.conceitedcode.com/2011/04/i-want-to-give-you-my-money/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Make your own feed reader with NewsBlur's new API

http://blog.newsblur.com/post/4955915076/make-your-own-feed-reader-with-newsblurs-new-api

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Alexis Ohanian, reddit's co-founder, has returned as an advisor

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/04/good-news-everyone.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

You’ve got an idea. Now what?

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/product-ideation/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Google, Can Indie Stone Have Their Money?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/26/google-can-indie-stone-have-their-money/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/25/22402/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

David Flanagan (JavaScript Definitive Guide author) on piracy

http://www.davidflanagan.com/2011/04/javascript-the-1.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Locale

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/locale.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29&utm_content=Netvibes

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Yahoo Weighs Spinning Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1 Billion Opportunity

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/yahoo-weighs-spinning-out-hado.php

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Jaiku's Jyri Engeström on the Consequences of Being Acquired by Google

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2883-exit-interview-jaikus-jyri-engestrm/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

The iOS weather-app market

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/26/iphone-weather-apps

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

http://uxmovement.com/buttons/why-users-click-right-call-to-actions-more-than-left

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

The Four Legs of Job Satisfaction

http://erik.randomdrivel.com/articles/6/the-four-legs-of-job-satisfaction/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Don't Do What You Love

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/04/dont_do_what_you_love.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Learning WebGL

http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon responds to Apple: "app store" is generic, drop the suit

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/amazon-responds-to-apple-app-store-is-generic-toss-the-suit.ars

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments
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