top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-09

Google Chrome Hacked?

http://www.vupen.com/demos/VUPEN_Pwning_Chrome.php

15 years ago

450 upvotes – 210 comments

FBI Tracking Device Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Tracking-Device-Teardown/5250/1

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 79 comments

What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?

http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 207 comments

The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-the-battle-of-internets-is-about-to-begin-110509/

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 103 comments

What percentage of people are alive today?

http://1000memories.com/blog/75-number-of-people-who-have-ever-lived

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 91 comments

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming with OpenGL 3

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 16 comments

Schneier: The Dishonest Minority: Security and its Role in Modern Society

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/status_report_t.html

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 57 comments

Realism in UI Design

http://www.uxmag.com/design/realism-in-ui-design

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 35 comments

An algorithm for the Names at the 9/11 Memorial

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/05/16/110516ta_talk_paumgarten

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 47 comments

Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

http://www.staynalive.com/2011/05/twitter-and-facebook-both-quietly-kill.html?q=1

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows

http://www.viget.com/inspire/39-ridiculous-things-to-do-with-css3-box-shadows/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

Why you get ideas in the shower

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2011/why-you-get-ideas-in-the-shower/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

Samoa to jump forward in time by one day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13330592

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2011/05/07/visualizing-time-with-the-infinity-hour-chart/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/introducing-tapir-simple-search-for-static-sites/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

The Rise of the Front-End Developer

http://devblog.eduhub.nl/frontend-developer-worth-millions

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company

http://joshwhiton.com/?p=815

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

WebKit Remote Debugging

http://www.webkit.org/blog/1620/webkit-remote-debugging/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Bitcoin money ≠ the Gold Standard.

http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/2011/05/09/the-bitcoin-payment-system-isnt-like-the-gold-standard/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 104 comments

Applying the Unix Process Model to Web Apps

http://adam.heroku.com/past/2011/5/9/applying_the_unix_process_model_to_web_apps/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments
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