top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-05

Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/

15 years ago

518 upvotes – 91 comments

Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/05/innovative-techniques-to-simplify-signups-and-logins/

15 years ago

416 upvotes – 175 comments

DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on

http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-request-to-take-down-mafiaafire-add-on/

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 75 comments

Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/aviation-geeks-scramble-to-i-d-osama-raids-mystery-copter/

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 128 comments

Hacking Hacker News Headlines

http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 34 comments

A $4.8M model airport with computer controlled vehicles

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/man-builds-worlds-largest-model-airport-the-knuffingen/story-e6frfq80-1226050348557

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 46 comments

The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developing contributor

http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2011/05/story-of-george-ayttms-most-prolific.html

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 8 comments

British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/stop-voting-for-lizards-start-voting-for-people/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 101 comments

Sony was running unpatched Apache with no firewall for months before breach

http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 65 comments

Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 147 comments

Front End Development Guidelines

http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/5213581396/my-role-with-my-last-employer-involved-creating

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 49 comments

Oracle Ordered to Reduce Claims Against Google From 132 to 3

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011050505150858

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 38 comments

52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/space/05gravity.html

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Beat High Airfares

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08subversion-t.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 133 comments

Leveling Up: Career Advancement for Software Developers

http://peterlyons.com/leveling_up.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

New stable release of Go

http://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#r57

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 80 comments

8GB MicroSD Atari 810 disk drive, built to scale

http://rossum.posterous.com/a-little-atari-810-disk-drive

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 9 comments

What are some startup ideas that persistently fail?

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-startup-ideas-that-persistently-fail/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 91 comments

Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group

http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-wheel-group/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 62 comments

LastPass requesting password reset after facing unknown anomaly

http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notification.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments
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