top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-11

Chromebook

http://www.google.com/chromebook/#

15 years ago

446 upvotes – 307 comments

In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-Innovation-Will-Stop-In-Silicon-Valley

15 years ago

406 upvotes – 208 comments

FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-if-we-told-you-you-might-sue-1

15 years ago

395 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/05/10-reasons-for-geeks-to-love-hp-webos/

15 years ago

294 upvotes – 166 comments

Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app

https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 160 comments

Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 83 comments

Google Storage Now Available To Developers

http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/getting-started.html

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 60 comments

CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders

http://layerstyles.org

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 35 comments

Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

https://www.pintpay.com

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 87 comments

"The worst algorithm in the world?"

http://bosker.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/the-worst-algorithm-in-the-world/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 69 comments

Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3958630/what-are-important-languages-to-learn-to-understand-different-approaches-and-conc

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 67 comments

After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commissioner becomes Comcast lobbyist

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-approving-comcastnbc-deal-fcc-commish-becomes-comcast-lobbyist.ars

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 69 comments

The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see

http://www.biketek.com/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 95 comments

Why Google Does Not Own Skype

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/05/11/google.skype.wired/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 91 comments

How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated

http://www.acumenholdings.com/blog/how-the-martha-grahm-google-logo-is-animated-short-explanation/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 25 comments

C to Go: Could Go replace C?

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c2go/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 154 comments

Google lobbies Nevada to allow driverless cars

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11drive.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

Bootstrap Marketing: Ideas that don't suck

http://spencerfry.com/bootstrap-marketing

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Tasks API Released

http://code.google.com/apis/tasks/index.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 39 comments

Bret Victor on working at Apple.

http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 68 comments

Programming is…

http://www.mrclay.org/2011/04/01/programming-is/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL."

http://blog.basho.com/2011/05/11/Lies-Damn-Lies-And-NoSQL/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months

http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/07/17/bonus-post-how-the-worlds-most-famous-computer-scientist-checks-e-mail-only-once-every-three-months/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: any of the HNers have kids & work from home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2536213

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

Google to Announce Chrome Laptops for Students - $20/Month

http://blogs.forbes.com/quentinhardy/2011/05/10/google-to-announce-chrome-laptops-20month/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110506/18425714192/bmi-says-single-person-listening-to-his-own-music-via-cloud-is-public-performance.shtml

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

Angry Birds on Chrome

http://chrome.angrybirds.com

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk

http://alpha.gov.uk/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24750/how-do-you-quote-a-passage-that-has-used-sic-mistakenly

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

How TheLadders.com scam works

http://corcodilos.com/blog/3219/theladders-how-the-scam-works-2

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs

http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-differs-in-the-three-big-jvms/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Google: Go ahead and hack the Chrome Book

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/hack-chromebooks

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Monthly Chromebook subscriptions for businesses ($28/mo) and schools ($20/mo)

http://www.google.com/chromebook/business-education.html#

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Sharding Techniques at Mixpanel Engineering

http://code.mixpanel.com/sharding-techniques/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Telstra scores 1-click patent win over Amazon

http://www.zdnet.com.au/telstra-scores-patent-win-over-amazon-339314845.htm

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Java.next() - Scala: The Revenge of the Static Typing

http://batsov.com/2011/05/08/jvm-langs-scala.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

Infiltrating Any Startup

http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/10/infiltrating-any-startup/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

I Spent 42 Hours Last Month on the Activity Most Critical to My Success

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/05/10/lab-notes-i-spent-42-hours-last-month-on-the-activity-most-critical-to-my-success/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Scraping, cleaning, and selling big data

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/data-scraping-infochimps.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Google one-ups Apple with 5 percent payment fee

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/11/google-chrome-web-store-payments/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp. Scales infinitely

http://www.tvdinnr.com/#/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

Revised net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/revised-net-censorship-bill-requires-search-engines-to-block-sites-too.ars

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Sane Vim Plugin Management with Vundle

http://www.charlietanksley.net/philtex/sane-vim-plugin-management/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook reportedly disables account of attorney Mark S. Zuckerberg

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/facebook-disables-account-of-attorney-named-mark-zuckerberg.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments
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