top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-27

YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo

http://www.avos.com/delicious-press-release/

15 years ago

573 upvotes – 118 comments

Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II

http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-a-month-%E2%80%93-part-ii/

15 years ago

340 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/27/businessinsider-why-i-jeff-bezos-keep-spending-billions-on-amazon-rd-2011-4.DTL

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 124 comments

Your taste is why your work disappoints you.

http://kottke.org/11/04/your-taste-is-why-your-own-work-disappoints-you

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 57 comments

How to parse a sentence and decide if to answer "that's what she said"?

http://www.quora.com/How-would-you-programmatically-parse-a-sentence-and-decide-whether-to-answer-thats-what-she-said

15 years ago

256 upvotes – 44 comments

YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious

http://blog.delicious.com/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 148 comments

Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem

http://status.heroku.com/incident/151

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 80 comments

Google’s secret perk? A private hackerspace

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/27/googles-secret-perk-a-private-hackerspace/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 53 comments

Non-Libyan URL Shortener

http://gadaf.fi/index.php

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 76 comments

Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US

http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-us-110427/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 98 comments

IRC chat log of PSN hackers

http://pastebin.com/m0ZxsjAb

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/04/ios-and-javascript-for-real-this-time

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Google docs for android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 23 comments

Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-disappeared-me.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 93 comments

Questions you should ask your interviewer

http://www.talentzoo.com/news.php/Questions-You-Absolutely-Must-Ask-Your-Interviewer/?articleID=9159

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 52 comments

PSN Users Reporting Hundreds of Dollars Stolen From Them

http://vgn365.com/2011/04/26/psn-users-reporting-hundred-of-dollars-stolen-from-them/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 48 comments

Anime Site Treats Piracy as Market Failure

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/competing-with-free-anime-site-treats-piracy-as-a-market-failure.ars

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt

http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/159785/tina-fey-chats-eric-schmidt

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 18 comments

How long does it take to install and try Quicklisp? (a gif screencast)

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/screencast.gif

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Lucene's FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0

http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-is-100-times-faster.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

It's the Latency, Stupid

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos

http://instafilm.com

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year

http://mashable.com/2011/04/26/amazon-earnings/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Weapons of Mass Assignment: Patio11 on Diaspora

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1964843

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110427052238659

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Redis and Scripting

http://antirez.com/post/redis-and-scripting.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Video of Google All-Hands Meeting Circa 1999

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/amazing-video-of-google-all-hands-meeting-circa-1999-theres-silly-string-everywhere/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Visa Makes A Strategic Investment In Disruptive Mobile Payments Startup Square

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/visa-makes-a-strategic-investment-in-disruptive-mobile-payments-startup-square/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

The CEO’s CEO

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/27/the-ceos-ceo/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 2 comments

The Algebra of Data and the Calculus of Mutation

http://blog.lab49.com/archives/3011

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

How do you use 1Gbps Internet links? Chattanooga residents find out

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/how-chattanooga-uses-1gbps-internet-connections.ars

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

EFF's fair use win over Righthaven: it's hard out here for a troll

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/righthaven-v-cio-it-s-hard-out-here-troll

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

CSS Markup Detective

http://www.red-root.com/sandbox/holmes/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Noah's Original Mint.com Marketing Proposal

http://jasonputorti.com/post/4541696459/noahs-original-mint-com-marketing-proposal

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Office Hours

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/office-hours.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Mass produced Gasoline from Algae is a reality next year in 2012

http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/algae_alternative_energy_source_110426/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments

Chris Dixon, I love you man but you are wrong

http://www.thoughtsonconsumerweb.com/chris-dixon-i-love-you-man-but-you-are-wrong/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments

Visa Backs Jack Dorsey's Square

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/27/visa-backs-jack-dorseys-square/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

A $1M seed round's investor connections visually mapped.

http://www.quora.com/Brendan-Baker/Anatomy-of-Seed-An-Inside-Look-at-a-1M-Seed-Round

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Reflections on startup life: Week 76 (Y Combinator Interview)

http://timbull.com/reflections-on-startup-life-week-76-y-combina

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments

There are two kinds of people in the world

http://cdixon.org/2011/04/26/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 28 comments

RIM Acquires Tungle

http://www.tungle.me/Home/rim-acquires-tungle/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments
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