top 50% 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

WebKit Remote Debugging

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

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company

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

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 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

Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?

http://blog.asmartbear.com/call-bullshit.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

IOS 4.3 sources are available

http://opensource.apple.com/release/ios-43/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Open Letter To New Programmers

http://blog.akash.im/an-open-letter-to-those-who-want-to-start

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)

http://al3x.net/2008/09/08/al3xs-rules-for-computing-happiness.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

Programmable OLED watch by Texas Instruments and Fossil

http://www.metawatch.org/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Not All Earnings Are Equal; Microsoft Has the Wal-Mart Disease

http://blogs.forbes.com/adamhartung/2011/05/03/why-not-all-earnings-are-equal-and-microsoft-has-the-wal-mart-disease/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Start-up vs. Corporate vs. Consulting vs. Combination Platter

http://vladlokshin.com/start-up-vs-consulting-vs-corporate-vs-all-3

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux, CTO leaves

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-ubuntu-linux-cto-leaves/8831

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

LinkedIn Prices IPO At $32 To $35 Per Share

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/linkedin-prices-ipo-at-32-to-35-per-share-expects-146-6m-in-net-proceeds-from-offering/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 44 comments

How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroken iPhones

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2011/05/08/how-att-recognizes-unauthorized-tethering-from-jailbroken-iphones/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 45 comments

Maker of free games suggests how much to donate with fun visualization

http://www.cheapass.com/about/howmuch

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

SpaceX designed Dragon for Mars

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/05/03/nasa-send-dragon-mars/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users In 4 Years

http://digitizor.com/2011/05/09/mark-shuttleworth-ubuntu/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 39 comments

Shown HN: Design for Hackers (draft)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530337

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

CEOs say California worst place to do business, Texas best

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/05/3604992/chief-executives-say-california.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 88 comments

First month as a start-up founder in Portland, OR

http://trekdek.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/first-month-as-a-start-up-founder-in-portland-or/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Looking Back At What I Learned At College

http://excid3.com/blog/2011/05/looking-back-at-what-i-learned-at-college/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

Long-Prized H-1B Visas Lose Cachet

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704810504576307342275841586.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 47 comments

Zynga buys iPhone game engine development team (Cocos2D/Zapus Media)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/us-zynga-idUSTRE7484QV20110509

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

Classification of HTTP APIs

http://www.nordsc.com/ext/classification_of_http_based_apis.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments

Javascript Pointers

http://forrst.com/posts/Javascript_Pointers-9q3

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 33 comments

Google APIs Discovery Service: one API to find them all

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apis-discovery-service-one-api.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 11 comments
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