top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-04

The Last Post

http://www.penmachine.com/2011/05/the-last-post

15 years ago

604 upvotes – 61 comments

Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/05/04/intel-reinvents-transistors-using-new-3-d-structure

15 years ago

470 upvotes – 101 comments

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 97 comments

Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore

http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 51 comments

Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done

15 years ago

★ 745 Shell
190 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Machine learning cheat sheet

http://eferm.com/machine-learning-cheat-sheet

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 13 comments

LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/tc-cribs-likealittle-lal/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 68 comments

John Resig, creator of jQuery, AMA.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h42ak/i_am_john_resig_creator_of_jquery_ama/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 27 comments

The Unwritten Laws of Engineering: What the Beginner Needs to Learn at Once

http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/October/Unwritten_Laws.cfm

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 14 comments

Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/dear-record-labels-focus-on-buyers-not-thieves/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 50 comments

Google Releases JavaScript.next to JavaScript Compiler Traceur

http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 34 comments

Linus Torvalds Interview for LinuxFR

https://linuxfr.org/nodes/85904/comments/1230981

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?

http://leanpub.com/erlang-recipes

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

Sortfolio for sale

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2899-sortfolio-deserves-a-better-home-make-us-an-offer

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

A CoffeeScript Intervention

http://www.pragprog.com/magazines/2011-05/a-coffeescript-intervention

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint

http://corte.si/posts/security/openfeint-udid-deanonymization/index.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Amazing way Chinese recycle millions of cellphones every year

http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/2011/05/03/how-china-recycles-millions-of-cellphones-every-year/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 28 comments

Deliberate Practice: How Education Fails to Produce Expertise

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/04/deliberate-practice-how-education-fails-to-produce-expertise/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

"The 411 Parable": Goog411 vs Bing411 - Make sure you are playing the same game.

http://buildcontext.com/blog/2011/the-411-parable

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

How Fog Creek learned to do sales part 2

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-very-most-basic-things-your-company-needs-to-know-about-sales-part-2-of-4/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

GNUnet

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gnunet

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Doctors use copyright assignment in patient contract to stifle bad reviews

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/medical-justice-stifling-speech-patients-touch

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook Ads: How to Get 1 Cent CPC (and why you might not want to)

http://tech.momentgarden.com/post/5016551651/facebook-ads-how-to-get-1-cent-cpc-and-why-you-might

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Best practices for raising a VC round

http://cdixon.org/2011/05/04/best-practices-for-raising-a-vc-round/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: What are your productivity hacks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513661

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

I just released an eBook about exceptions and failure handling in Ruby

http://exceptionalruby.com/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

Public key pinning coming in Chrome 13

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Moore’s Law Is Alive And Well, And Intel Will Prove It Today

http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110504/moores-law-is-alive-and-well-and-intel-will-prove-it-today/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Your New TV Ruins Movies (about LCDs and motion smoothing)

http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Android's Achilles' Heel (for the rest of the world) - The Sim Toolkit

http://blog.nyaruka.com/androids-achilles-heal-the-sim-toolkit

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

The Numbers of Disqus

http://blog.disqus.com/post/5192492910/the-numbers-of-disqus

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Spotify says hello to the iPod

https://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2011/05/04/spotify-says-hello-to-the-ipod/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Why 30 year old entrepreneurs are not over the hill

http://www.ycreject.com/2011/05/why-30-year-old-entrepreneurs-are-not.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 70 comments

University to bypass expensive database

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/08/10/peiscience-web-subscription-584.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

SoundCloud launches experimental features on Labs

http://soundcloudlabs.com

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Rise of the Mac Git GUIs

http://fuelyourcoding.com/rise-of-the-mac-git-guis/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Ideas I'd Like To Work On

http://zacharyburt.com/2011/05/ideas-id-like-to-work-on/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Scala and Android Development

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/05/04/scala-and-android-development/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Update: Migration of Slicehost to Rackspace cloud servers

http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=5210

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Social Graph Analysis using Elastic MapReduce and PyPy

http://postneo.com/2011/05/04/social-graph-analysis-using-elastic-mapreduce-and-pypy

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

Russia's First Floating Nuclear Power Station

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-nuclear-industry-floating-idUSTRE73H3S020110418

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

Oracle to hand open-source Hudson project to the Eclipse Foundation

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/161775/oracle-proposes-giving-hudson-eclipse-foundation

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

NumPy in PyPy - status and roadmap

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/05/numpy-in-pypy-status-and-roadmap.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Ruby or Python? Well, it depends...

http://batsov.com/2011/05/03/ruby-or-python.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments

You are Not a Software Engineer

http://chrisaitchison.com/2011/05/03/you-are-not-a-software-engineer

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 16 comments

Justin.tv – Growing in New Directions (And Hiring)

http://blog.justin.tv/justin-tv-growing-in-new-directions-and-hiring/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

Winning Attitude, Losing Attitude

http://areallybadidea.com/winning-attitude-losing-attitude

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 4 comments

Massive Django newsapp rolled out in 24hours: Part One

http://www.andymboyle.com/2011/05/03/thoughts-on-remembering-the-storms-design-and-implementation-part-1/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 11 comments

What led you to TeX and LaTeX

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2110/213

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments

Business Class: Freemium for News?

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-class-news/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Custom Scrollbars in WebKit

http://css-tricks.com/custom-scrollbars-in-webkit/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 18 comments

Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript - MDC Docs

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction_to_Object-Oriented_JavaScript

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 14 comments

More Money (for Y Combinator) Means More Startups

http://gigaom.com/2011/05/03/more-money-for-y-combinator-means-more-startups/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 6 comments
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