top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-10

Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576313932659388852.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

15 years ago

421 upvotes – 271 comments

Let’s mug a startup founder

http://thinkvitamin.com/business/lets-mug-a-startup-founder/

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 76 comments

Google Code University

http://code.google.com/edu/courses.html

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 39 comments

Google App Engine for Go

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview.html

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 70 comments

Kill Math

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 108 comments

How to Email Busy People

http://www.humbledmba.com/how-to-email-busy-people

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 60 comments

Love in GIT

http://git.gnome.org/browse/frogr/commit/?id=d20b4b7679a64349c09b611b6376f20bfa4fb1d2

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 27 comments

WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/10/us-australia-britain-assange-idUSTRE7495FP20110510

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 73 comments

Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends

http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/airbnb-social-connections/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 30 comments

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http://mattt.github.com/Morse.js/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 40 comments

SLR Camera Simulator

http://camerasim.com/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 84 comments

Microsoft to acquire Skype

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10CorpNewsPR.mspx

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 85 comments

Y Combinator Accepts Record 60+ New Startups For Summer 2011

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/10/y-combinator-accepts-record-60-new-startups-for-summer-2011/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 92 comments

Apple App Approval Tips Nobody Told Me About

http://www.buzzwordcompliant.net/2011/05/10/apple-app-approval-tips-nobody-told-me-about/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 38 comments

PR firm pushing anti-Google message for undisclosed client

http://pastebin.com/zaeTeJeJ

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

The Co-Founder Mythology

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/05/09/the-co-founder-mythology/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 28 comments

Android Open Accessory Development Kit | Android Developers

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 30 comments

Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifuse

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Robots.txt is a suicide note

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Robots.txt

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 91 comments

MySQL Text vs. Varchar Performance

http://nicj.net/2011/01/20/mysql-text-vs-varchar-performance

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Depression May Be Foretold in How We Remember

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/health/research/10depression.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

Google App Engine 1.5.0 released

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/app-engine-150-release.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

The Year Ahead for Google App Engine

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-google-app-engine.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

http://www.naclbox.com/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

It is good to have friends

http://jacquesmattheij.com/it+is+good+to+have+friends

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Hands-on Node.js book

http://nodetuts.com/handson-nodejs-book.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Announces Admin-Free Chrome Frame Installs For IE

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/10/google-chrome-frame-ie-admin/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/biggest-bittorrent-case/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Music Service

http://music.google.com/music

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 90 comments

The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers seized

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/the-hackers-hacked-main-anonymous-irc-servers-seized.ars

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Launching Its Cloud Service Tomorrow, Without Big Music's Approval

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110509/google-launching-its-cloud-service-tomorrow-without-big-musics-approval/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

"My team will be able to program circles around everyone else" (2002)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/feyerabend-project/message/252

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics - Why We Can't Control Intelligence

http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/10/the-myth-of-the-three-laws-of-robotics-why-we-cant-control-intelligence/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 63 comments

Lisp Idioms

http://cybertiggyr.com/gene/lid/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Please Help Me Find a Remote Job.

http://spoiledtechie.com/rj/remotejob.htm

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

Google’s Music Beta first look: it’s miserable

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/10/google-music-miserable/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Google I/O Live Stream

http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/index-live.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Every day I learn something new… and stupid.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-new-and-stupid/#comment-1021

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

First 100% Crowdsourced Book (80 authors)

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Safe-Work-Neovella-ebook/dp/B004ZHE5I2/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Google IO : Android Announcements

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/android-momentum-mobile-and-more-at.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

The European Startup Map

http://www.thestartuparena.com/european-startup-map/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Chrome OS almost stable and ready

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/10/chrome-os-launch-2/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

The Sophie Choice

http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/05/08/the-sophie-choice

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Announce Acquisition of Skype Tomorrow Morning

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110509/microsoft-will-announce-acquistion-of-skype-tomorrow-morning/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Pow 0.3.0 released (Zero-config Rack server for OS X)

http://pow.cx/#0.3.0

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Google announces Android Open Accessory standard, Arduino-based ADK

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-android-open-accessory-standard-arduino-based/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments

Loud. Arrogant. Rebellious. Asian.

http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/loud-arrogant-rebellious-asian/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 34 comments
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