top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-07

Joe Hewitt : I'm an indie developer now.

http://joehewitt.com/post/creative-tools/

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 54 comments

Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs

http://www.spacex.com/updates.php

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 100 comments

Einstein for Everyone

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/index.html

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 18 comments

Bitcoin app rejected by Apple

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5550.msg107980#msg107980

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 94 comments

“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple’s Little Known Facts

http://www.macstories.net/news/inside-apple-reveals-steve-jobs-anecdotes-apples-little-known-facts/

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server

http://golubenco.org/?p=16

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

Speaking of the British

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z4596068789&z=1250248780

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 80 comments

Why the new guy can't code

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 42 comments

Fossil Versus Git

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 85 comments

My Knuth reward check

http://www.arcfn.com/2011/05/my-knuth-reward-check.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Stallman

http://www.fsf.org/news/rms-newbooks

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

AMD commits to coreboot

http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/05/05/an-update-on-coreboot/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

What's the best launch strategy for a web startup?

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-launch-strategy-for-a-web-startup

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Java.next() - The Groovy Programming Language

http://batsov.com/2011/05/06/jvm-langs-groovy.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Reversible Migrations in Rails 3.1

http://edgerails.info/articles/what-s-new-in-edge-rails/2011/05/06/reversible-migrations/index.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Skype is Evil (2007)

http://ultraparanoid.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/why-skype-is-evil/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

The Fc.exe command does not work when files differ every 128th byte

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953929

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

The most surprising demographic crisis

http://www.economist.com/node/18651512

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 39 comments

'Taxi wars' in France as new businesses try to compete [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13320358

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Books for soon to be Software Engineers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524205

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

What makes a SEAL

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/05/navy-seal-team-six-excerpt-201105

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

Games Now Eligible for NEA Funding

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109835-Games-Now-Legally-Considered-an-Art-Form-in-the-USA

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments
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