top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-06

Google humans.txt

http://www.google.com/humans.txt

15 years ago

358 upvotes – 57 comments

Getting Users For Your New Startup

http://blog.pud.com/post/5239917032/users

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 59 comments

Apple not providing LGPL webkit source code for latest iOS 4.3.x

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2011/05/06/#20110506-applewebkit_lgpl

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 112 comments

The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsysoev.ru%2Fprog%2Fv8.html

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 70 comments

Stolen Camera Finder

http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 70 comments

Mozilla tells DHS: we won't help you censor the Internet

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/05/mozilla-tells-dhs-we.html

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 41 comments

How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/03/29/how-fast-is-the-internet-at-google-mind-blowing/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 99 comments

New iPhone app identifies trees from photos of their leaves

http://leafsnap.com

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 51 comments

56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/56-of-americans-have-internet-data-caps-fcc-asked-to-investigate.ars

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 72 comments

This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/his_could_be_big_decentralized_web_standard_under.php

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 75 comments

Machine Learning: A Love Story

http://www.hilarymason.com/academics/machine-learning-a-love-story/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 5 comments

Skype bug gives attackers root access to Mac OS X

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/skype_for_mac_critical_vulnerability/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 65 comments

What To Do When Your Web Application Goes Viral

http://dlo.me/what-to-do-when-your-site-goes-viral/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

KGPU — Accelerating Linux Kernel Functions with CUDA

http://code.google.com/p/kgpu/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

What Does Having the #6 App in a Mac App Store Category Get You? $15.42

http://www.hanchorllc.com/2011/05/06/what-does-having-the-6-app-in-a-mac-app-store-category-get-you-15-42/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Open Education Resources

http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/05/10-open-education-resources-you-may-not-know-about-but-should/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code

http://dirkriehle.com/2011/05/01/the-parser-that-cracked-the-mediawiki-code/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Visual Website Optimizer featured in India's national newspaper

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIKM/2011/05/06&ViewMode=GIF&PageLabel=17&EntityId=Ar01700&AppName=1

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: My embeddable C/C++ webserver

https://github.com/udp/lacewing/blob/master/examples/hello_world.cc

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: TED like sites/videos?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520966

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Waterbear - a visual language for Javacript

http://waterbearlang.com/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Mini-Django: Single file django project for instant gratification.

http://readevalprint.github.com/mini-django/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

Leaked “ACTA” Lobby Letter Reveals Hollywood Pressure On EU

http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-acta-lobby-letter-reveals-hollywood-pressure-on-eu-110506/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 1 comments

Investors Cough Up $1.6 Million To Dine With Grubwithus

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/grubwithus-funding/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Writing Maintainable JavaScript

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/mix/mix11/EXT23

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

AIM AV

http://aim.com/av/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Exception Safety, Garbage Collection etc. (a.k.a. Why Does Java Suck So Bad?)

http://www.slideshare.net/eplawless/exception-safety-and-garbage-collection-and-some-other-stuff

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

Django Canvas

http://www.djangocanvas.com/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Remind HN: Google Code Jam 2011 Starts Today

http://code.google.com/codejam?a

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

Meet DOCSIS: the unsung hero of high-speed cable Internet access

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/05/docsis-the-unsung-hero-of-high-speed-cable-internet-access.ars

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Help Ron Conway Abolish Stock Option Taxes in SF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521329

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

The value of Google Maps directions logs

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/05/value-of-google-maps-directions-logs.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Intel reinvents the transistor as a 3D Tri-Gate

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-reinvents-the-transistor-as-a-3d-tri-gate-2011054/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Death of a Product Manager

http://crankypm.com/2011/04/death-product-manager/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCrankyProductManager+(The+Cranky+Product+Manager)

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Kinect Projects: First Five Months [Video]

http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/05/kinect-projects-first-5-months.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

Ryan Dahl's NodeConf Slides

http://nodejs.org/nodeconf.pdf

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 20 comments

Wall Street Journal Leak site expects you to own the copyright

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/05/phone-hacking-publishers-leak.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

An API for European Union legislation

http://api.epdb.eu/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Tech experts, including Google, to discuss future of the USPS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/google-execs-tech-experts-focus-on-future-of-postal-service/2011/05/04/AFmuOVpF_blog.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 49 comments

Russian tycoon buys Warner Music for $3.3bn

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/warner_music_going_going_gone/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/42092

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 24 comments

Pioneers of Soviet Computing

http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/85/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 2 comments

Skype vulnerability discovered by Pure Hacking

http://www.purehacking.com/blogs/gordon-maddern/skype-0day-vulnerabilitiy-discovered-by-pure-hacking

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 9 comments

Disco 0.4 released (distributed computing / mapreduce): OCaml workers+

http://disco.posterous.com/disco-04

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 1 comments

Stanford explores NYC engineering campus

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/02/18/stanford-explores-nyc-engineering-campus/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 6 comments
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