top 10 hacker news stories for 2011-05-03

John Resig joins the Khan Academy

http://ejohn.org/blog/next-steps-in-2011/

15 years ago

585 upvotes – 73 comments

JQuery 1.6 released

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/05/03/jquery-16-released/

15 years ago

320 upvotes – 41 comments

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 53 comments

Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts

http://go.rackspace.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoksqjMZKXonjHpfsX%2B7%2BgkUK6%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FTMNqI%2FqLAzICFpZo2FFKG%2BOeb5BB%2BfA%3D

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 151 comments

Stack Overflow Makes Slow Pages 100x Faster By Simple SQL Tuning

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/5/2/stack-overflow-makes-slow-pages-100x-faster-by-simple-sql-tu.html

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 124 comments

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 25 comments

Tor project decides to fork Firefox

http://blog.torproject.org/blog/toggle-or-not-toggle-end-torbutton

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I still don’t contribute to open source

http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 97 comments

Woman removes SIM card from smart energy meter, uses $193k of 3G data

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/05/03/227031_tasmania-news.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 201 comments

I take illegal drugs for inspiration

http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/telegraphdrugs.htm

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 102 comments
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