top 50% 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

Linode launches native IPv6 support

http://blog.linode.com/2011/05/03/linode-launches-native-ipv6-support/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Jason Fried: How to Hire an Assistant

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110501/jason-fried-how-to-hire-an-assistant.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps")

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/05/03/the-german-school-of-lisp-2/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Eureqa - detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in data

http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

The 10 commandments of good source control management

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/05/10-commandments-of-good-source-control.html

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

Building Your Own Dropbox Equivalent

http://cloudfs.org/2011/05/building-your-own-dropbox-equivalent/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/02/verizons-removal-tethering-apps-android-market-shame-fcc-violation/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

Colourlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/03/colourlovers-raises-1-million-to-make-everyone-an-artist/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

Getting Started with Android Development

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/05/03/getting-started-with-android-development/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 8 comments

8 bit crop circle hack

http://www.dailygrail.com/Essays/2010/5/Planck-found-Eulers-Identity-Crop-Circle

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

"Take a Photo; It’ll Last Longer"

http://koralatov.com/post/3603212545/photos

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Hacker Pwns Police Cruiser and Lives to Tell the Tale

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/cop_car_hacking/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/03/bill-gates-nuclear/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 109 comments

High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Really Drink

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/hummingbird-tongue-drinking/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703841904576257440326458056.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Attachmate lays off Mono employees

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/attachmate-lays-off-mono-emplo.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases

http://www.simonschubert.de/papierarbeiten.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Hire Good Designers

http://bleikamp.com/hire-good-designers.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Tips from a Production MongoDB Deployment

http://attachmentsme.tumblr.com/post/5168114317/tips-from-a-production-mongodb-deployment

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Clojure Atlas, a visualization of the Clojure language & standard library

http://clojureatlas.com

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Arguing for Immortality

http://vincentwoo.com/2011/04/30/arguing-for-immortality/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 89 comments

Apple Announces New iMac With Quad-Core Processors & Thunderbolt I/O

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/05/03imac.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple economics: a free laptop every year.

http://dmurray.org/apple-economics-a-free-laptop-every-year

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 68 comments

Creating a Killer Early-Stage Pitch Deck for Angels & VCs.

http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2011/05/03/creating-an-early-stage-pitch-deck/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Netflix CEO: In Ten Years, “We Will All Have A Gigabit To The Home”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/03/netflix-hastings-gigabit/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 78 comments

A first time iPhone developer's tea-filled journey.

http://worldoftea.org/tea-for-iphone-an-interview-with-the-developer/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed

http://the99percent.com/tips/6815/The-Art-of-Momentum-Why-Your-Ideas-Need-Speed

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments

DVCS-Autosync: A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git

http://mayrhofer.eu.org/dvcs-autosync

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments

Thinking open source: How startups destroy a culture of fear

http://opensource.com/business/11/5/thinking-open-source-how-startups-destroy-culture-fear

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments
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