top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-04-30

Workers Leaving the Googleplex

http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-leaving-the-googleplex

15 years ago

690 upvotes – 391 comments

A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People

http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/04/rough-guide-to-social-skills-for.html

15 years ago

273 upvotes – 126 comments

Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official

http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-police-arrested-movie-pirate-as-a-personal-favor-to-movie-official-110430/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 41 comments

Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/rootkit-on-brand-new-toshiba-laptop.html

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 52 comments

Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae

http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2011/04/patent-5893120-reduced-to-mathematical.html

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 39 comments

PyPy 1.5 Released: Catching Up

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/pypy-15-released-catching-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PyPyStatusBlog+%28PyPy+Status+Blog%29

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday

http://mtgox.com/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 92 comments

The investment that didn't happen

http://k9.vc/modista

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

New order of animals discovered?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=man-discovers-new-life-form-at-sout-2011-04-26

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by Paypal

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2555.msg101084#msg101084

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=261186

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

Simple description of popular open source licenses

http://pbagwl.com/post/5078147450/description-of-popular-software-licenses

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 13 comments

Building a Thinking Room

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576287121392285518.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Can you recommend some directories to list your app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500943

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Introducing Druid: Real-Time Analytics at a Billion Rows Per Second

http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/druid-part-i-real-time-analytics-at-a-billion-rows-per-second/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 44 comments

Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads

http://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2011/04/optimizing-nginx-for-high-traffic-loads/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Unity Asset Store: $3000 revenue in 5 days from a spline drawing tool

http://juhakiili.com/blog/my-first-five-days-in-the-asset-store/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years

http://zenhabits.net/38/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

The "book" is dead

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/04/29/the-book-is-dead

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Have you read your Python Docs Lately?

http://jessenoller.com/2011/04/30/have-you-read-your-python-docs-lately/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments
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