top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-12

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/12/facebook-loses-much-face-in-secret-smear-on-google/

15 years ago

779 upvotes – 142 comments

Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves

http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/12/satellite-images-of-north-korea-prison-camps-find-200000-living-as-slaves/

15 years ago

486 upvotes – 205 comments

The Ballmer Days Are Over

http://brooksreview.net/2011/05/ballmer/

15 years ago

420 upvotes – 212 comments

Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

http://luminarious.tumblr.com/post/5416346842/20-web-services-not-available-in-estonia

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 186 comments

FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II)

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-if-we-told-you-part-ii

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 21 comments

Heroku architecture

http://www.quora.com/Heroku/How-does-Heroku-work

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 17 comments

ROME HTML5 demo

http://www.ro.me

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=11614

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum

http://www.codeyouridea.com/coders/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 111 comments

Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails

http://activeadmin.info

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 40 comments

Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/12/facebook-anti-google-smear/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/05/why-google-choosing-arduino-matters-and-the-end-of-made-for-ipod-tm.html

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied...

http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 94 comments

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #1/3

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 18 comments

Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome

http://tbbuck.com/how-to-make-your-web-apps-look-awesome/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/facebook-busted-in-clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 7 comments

Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers

http://www.seobook.com/no-adwords-soup

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 70 comments

The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games]

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/05/final-answer-for-what-to-do-to-prevent.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka

http://typesafe.com/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 94 comments

Python for Fun

http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539892

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 67 comments

How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 109 comments

Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay

http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-blocked-the-pirate-bay-110512/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other

http://io9.com/5800577/the-stock-market-depends-on-how-algorithms-are-interacting-with-each-other?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (2008)

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM

http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

The New Tech Bubble

http://www.economist.com/node/18681576

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

A brief experiment with PyPy

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/442268/22f66371348bd7c5/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

How Google Controls Android: Digging into the Skyhook Filings

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-samsung/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12158718

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

5,000 megapixel photo of night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures

http://skysurvey.org/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

New version of jobs code

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12may11

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Lexadecimal - colour codes with meaning

http://lexadecimal.com/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Tim Berners-Lee and the Toilet Paper Protocol

http://darrennix.com/tim-berner-lee-thoughts-on-the-toilet-paper-p

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Lanyrd (YC W11): It's Twitter meets LinkedIn meets IMDB for conferences

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/05/12/lanyrd-twitter-meets-linkedin-meets-imdb-for-the-conference-circuit/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Dutch carrier has been secretly spying on customers for at least 9 months

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F74419%2Fkpn-past-deep-packet-inspection-toe-op-mobiel-internetverkeer.html&act=url

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2011/05/07/a-python-programmers-first-impression-of-coffeescript/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

What Could You Buy for $8.5 Billion?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/apple-2004

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Facebook Roulette pits you against three friends, the loser's account is deleted

http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/facebook-russian-roulette/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Scala 2.9.0 final

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9483

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Bitcoin does not pose a threat to law and order

http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

I see dead startups

http://vlaskovits.com/2011/05/i-see-dead-startups/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Vlaskovits+%28Vlaskovits%29

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

PR agency confirms Facebook behind Google campaign

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/05/report-facebook-launched-smear-campaign-against-google/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 0 comments

Netflix for select Android devices now available

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 34 comments

History of everything

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/04/the_history_of_pretty_much_eve.php

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

FCC Commissioner leaves for Comcast

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20062054-266.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments
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