top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-04-29

Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/bose-gift.html

15 years ago

420 upvotes – 94 comments

LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015

15 years ago

417 upvotes – 293 comments

AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

15 years ago

385 upvotes – 101 comments

Geohot Chimes In

http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/04/recent-news.html

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 96 comments

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 16 comments

Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

http://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/2011/04/29/chromeless-0-2/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 70 comments

Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 16 comments

Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/28apr_voyager/

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 64 comments

Top 6 List of Programming Top Lists

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/top-6-list-of-programming-top-10-lists.html

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 18 comments

Play by Play: Zed Shaw

https://peepcode.com/products/play-by-play-zed-shaw

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

Ultra-Light Titanium Ribbon Bike Lock

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1051734209/tigr-titanium-lock-as-cool-as-your-bike

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

Fructose: compile Ruby into PHP

http://www.fructoselang.org/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer

http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/AppleCrateII.html

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 12 comments

Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years

http://mashable.com/2011/04/29/microsoft-quarterly-profit-apple/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

I am starting a company in Chile

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19617

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 47 comments

Has anyone noticed this before? HN: Best Of

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn You Some Erlang: Building an Application With OTP

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/building-applications-with-otp

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/04/28/on-becoming-a-math-whiz-my-advice-to-a-new-mit-student/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

SMS from Chrome, fully sync'd with your Android phone

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dkfhfaphfkopdgpbfkebjfcblcafcmpi

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

Anatomy of a $1M Seed Round

http://www.slideshare.net/brendanbaker/anatomy-of-seed-7753824#

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments
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