top 50% 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

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript#

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227076914379.htm

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Perl Programming Best Practices

http://ontwik.com/perl/perl-programming-best-practices/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

http://timeslot.me/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Node.js has a trademark now

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/29/trademark/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Readme Driven Development

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html#

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

France Is Dropping Concrete Bombs

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/04/france-dropping-non-explosive-bombs-libya/37197/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government's Surveillance Spyware

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/CIPAV_Post

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Nokia: "We will not adopt Windows Phone environment as it is seen today"

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/04/29/some-more-on-the-nokia-microsoft-partnership

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Theo Jansen's 3D Printed Strandbeests

http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/822-Theo-Jansens-3D-Printed-Strandbeests.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

How to roll out your own Javascript API with V8

http://syskall.com/how-to-roll-out-your-own-javascript-api-with

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

How to negotiate effectively.

http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/secrets-power-negotiating/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/index.jsp?topic=/xs40/convertingbetweenjsonandjsonx05.htm

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 75 comments

Achieving Goals Like a Mad Klingon

http://www.dextronet.com/blog/2011/04/achieving-goals-like-a-mad-klingon/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook takedown followup: what happened and what FB needs to fix

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/facebook-takedown-followup-what-happened-and-what-facebook-needs-to-fix.ars

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Review my startup - Lean Designs Website Builder

http://www.leandesigns.com

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments

Sequoia-Backed Chinese E-Commerce Company's Black-Hat SEO

http://www.digitalduediligenceadvisors.com/seqouia-fails-to-spot-milanoos-black-hat-tactics/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://oeis.org

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Delicious founder on site's potential: 'The time has passed'

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/04/29/delicious.schachter/index.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments

Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/no-hacking-required/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

Unicode table for you

http://www.ftrain.com/unicode/#9000

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Everyone Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_every_single_person_should_take_30_seconds_to.php

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 8 comments
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