top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-02

Osama bin Laden Is Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html?_r=1

15 years ago

924 upvotes – 430 comments

Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad

http://tweetlibrary.com/damon/osamaraidlivetweets

15 years ago

638 upvotes – 101 comments

Startups Are Hard

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html

15 years ago

410 upvotes – 111 comments

Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts

http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html

15 years ago

289 upvotes – 89 comments

After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-botched-child-porn-raid-judge-sees-the-light-on-ip-addresses.ars

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 72 comments

Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine ever invented

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/05/02/wikileaks-founder-facebook-is-the-most-appalling-spy-machine-that-has-ever-been-invented/

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 106 comments

Sony loses 12,700 credit card numbers

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/02/sony-hit-with-second-attack-loses-12-700-credit-card-nu/

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 54 comments

The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 123 comments

Hacker News Analysis

http://blog.echen.me/2011/03/14/hacker-news-analysis/

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 59 comments

Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26709/

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 105 comments

Why floats suck - accurate galaxy-wide coordinates in 128 bits

http://www.facepunch.com/content/119-Why-floats-suck.

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

The daily lunch delivery of India's dabbawallahs

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2882-the-incredible-delivery-system-of-indias-dabbawallahs

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 68 comments

How to: Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2007/03/howto-pass-silicon-valley-software.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/twitter-to-buy-tweetdeck-for-40-million-50-million/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

Wikileaks cables reveal US pressuring Canada on IP enforcement

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/wikileaks-cables-reveal-us-pressuring-canada-on-ip-enforcement.ars

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Last chance: let the FDA know why you want direct access to your own genome

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/last-chance-let-the-fda-know-why-you-want-direct-access-to-your-own-genome/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 76 comments

My Experience as a Female CS Major

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/01/17/my-experiences-as-a-female-software-engineer/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

Smaller than Bloom filters

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/04/29/filters.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/05/open-letter-to-mike-arrington-please-stop-investing-in-startups/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 48 comments

Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service

http://kovyrin.net/2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

My baby, the finite state machine (2006)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2006/09/13/baby-state-machine.aspx

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments

Systems Programming with Racket

http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Startup Workaway: 20 founders. 10 days. 1 beach house in Costa Rica. Apply now

http://startupworkaway.com/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

The context sensitivity of C’s grammar

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/05/02/the-context-sensitivity-of-c%e2%80%99s-grammar-revisited/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Data Structure Visualization

http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

Is “Hiring only the Best” a really Practical Advice?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/72336/468

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

Redis Lua scripting implemented: how to play with it.

http://antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

(Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/671

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

Impressed By Slow Code

http://prog21.dadgum.com/98.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Primeval C: two very early compilers

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/primevalC.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

JavaScript performance and a Webkit hotspot

http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/05/01/javascript-performance

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

cpanm and PSGI author joins DotCloud

http://bulknews.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/joining-dotcloud.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

Maqetta - WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces

http://maqetta.org/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Facebook confidential "law enforcement guide"

http://info.publicintelligence.net/Facebook2010.pdf

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Poetics: The first native implementation of CoffeeScript on the Rubinius VM

https://github.com/brixen/poetics

15 years ago

★ 162 Ruby MIT
57 upvotes – 12 comments

Can Your List Library Do This?

http://dvanhorn.lambda-calcul.us/2011/05/01/list-challenge/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments
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