top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-28

I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495137

15 years ago

1136 upvotes – 228 comments

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/

15 years ago

441 upvotes – 212 comments

Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/eating-healthily-for-3-a-day/

15 years ago

384 upvotes – 352 comments

Joel Spolsky: Lunch

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/04/28.html

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 197 comments

Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 112 comments

Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/facebook-shoots-first-ignores-questions-later-account-lock-out-attack-works.ars

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 84 comments

Genesis of requiring a "Dropbox folder," versus designated folders

http://www.quora.com/Drew-Houston/What-was-the-genesis-of-requiring-a-Dropbox-folder-versus-allowing-me-to-designate-folders-like-documents-etc

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 31 comments

MacBook Air is enough for a work machine

http://brooksreview.net/2011/04/mba-qs/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 205 comments

The Linux perf command rocks

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/profiling/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 26 comments

If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/if-youre-going-to-kill-it-open-source-it.html

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 38 comments

Why we need an Open Wireless movement

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/wrong-answer-5050-calculating-cofounder-equity-split

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 36 comments

Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 55 comments

Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up too late

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/if-you-only-feel-half-awake-you-probably-are.ars

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

Hacker Newsletter

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

How Like.com Shut Down A Competitor–And Broke Up Its Funding Round

http://blogs.forbes.com/tomiogeron/2011/04/28/how-like-com-shut-down-a-competitor-and-broke-up-its-funding-round/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

Guido van Rossum on PyCharm

https://profiles.google.com/gvanrossum/posts/CGh9MoWU53V

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: Cool URIs don't change (1998)

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 25 comments

Silk: why we use Haskell

http://blog.typlab.com/2009/09/why-we-use-haskell/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

DotCloud releases support for Perl, aka Camel-as-a-Service

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-introduces-camel-as-a-service-with-i

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Fargo: new Scheme-like language working in Node.js/browser

http://fargo.jcoglan.com/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/greplin-1-5-billion-documents-indexed-six-engineers/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Graph Visualization in Python

http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Graph

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

Anyone Can Take Down Facebook Pages with a Fake Email Address

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/anyone_can_take_down_facebook_pages_with_a_fake_email_address.php

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Flattr no longer requires users to spend money in order to receive money

http://blog.flattr.net/2011/04/opening-the-floodgates/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Lead bitcoin developer invited into CIA headquarters

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6652.0

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

This is a web page - Mozilla WebGL demo "No Comply"

https://mozillademos.org/demos/nocomply/demo.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Slackware 13.37 has been released

http://slackware.com/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

What are all of Amazon's web services and what do they do?

http://www.quora.com/What-are-all-of-Amazons-web-services-and-what-do-they-do

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Gore, Ex-Apple Engineers Team Up to Blow Up the Book

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/app-stars-push-pop-press/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Leaving the U.S

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2011/sb20110427_111253.htm

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

Defcon & Black Hat founder Jeff Moss appointed ICANN Chief Security Officer

http://www.icann.org/en/news/releases/release-28apr11-en.pdf

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

It’s Not What Your Software Does, It’s What People Do With Your Software

http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2011/04/its-not-what-your-software-does-its-what-people-do-with-your-software/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Finding And Buying A Domain Name

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Airpush are quite happy to support developers who want to deceive their users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493047

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments

It’s Face Time: Google Talk For Android Phones Gets Video Chat Support

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/its-face-time-google-talk-for-android-phones-gets-video-chat-support/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 33 comments

Libev and libevent

http://blog.gevent.org/2011/04/28/libev-and-libevent/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Found a nice bug in IOS today, bricks your phone and kills the Simulator

http://www.pastie.org/private/orzgwxc2ax80vrs8v0rew

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

Don't be an idiot. Find a great startup advisor.

http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-be-an-idiot-find-a-great-startup-advisor

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

An Introduction to Xiangqi for Chess Players

http://www.crockford.com/chess/xiangqi.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

ParrotBot reads your GMail to you

http://www.parrotbot.com

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

Filter and Visualize Data in Seconds with Silk

http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/28/filter-and-visualize-data-in-seconds-with-silk/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

TomTom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/27/tomtom_customer_data_flap/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

The AOL-TechCrunch Investing Controversy

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110428/godspeed-on-that-investing-thing-yertle-but-i-still-have-some-questions-for-your-boss-arianna/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Study: IQ test results are higher among those who really want high scores

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/04/19/1018601108.abstract

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 29 comments
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