top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-13

Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/mike-rowe-senate-testimony.html

15 years ago

667 upvotes – 207 comments

Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2543601

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 172 comments

The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 200 comments

Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 103 comments

Rails 3 - Fully Loaded

http://intridea.com/2011/5/13/rails3-gems

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 32 comments

Indie iOS Devs Under Legal Fire For Offering In-App Purchases

http://www.cultofmac.com/ios-devs-under-fire-by-patent-troll-for-offering-in-app-purchases/94916

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 89 comments

CEO of Svpply: I have no idea what I'm doing

http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/5450242474/my-job-pt-1-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/mailgun-raises-1-1-million-for-its-twilio-for-email/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 68 comments

Mental Illness and Startups

http://blog.tesser.org/2011/5/12/mental-illness-and-startups

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 54 comments

Gary Vaynerchuk: “99.5 Percent Of Social Media Experts Are Clowns” (TCTV)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/gary-vaynerchuk-social-media-clowns-tctv/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 77 comments

Senate bill amounts to death penalty for Web sites

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20062398-281.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Collection of Game Development Blogs

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/3223/game-development-blogs

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 1 comments

America Lacks Meaningful Innovation

http://greaterseas.com/2011/05/the-future-of-innovation/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 108 comments

Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=401

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service

https://duck.co/#Topic/28469000000637077

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Gabe Newell on Valve's business model

http://www.develop-online.net/features/1192/Gabe-Newell-on-Valve

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Why (UK) train departure information is not open data.

http://placr.co.uk/blog/2011/05/why-train-departure-information-is-not-currently-open-data/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Fukushima 'Full Meltdown' Made Official

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/05/fukushima-full-meltdown-made-official/37671/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 74 comments

PROTECT IP Act Would Gut Parts Of The DMCA's Safe Harbors

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110512/12451914251/protect-ip-would-gut-parts-dmcas-safe-harbors.shtml

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Protovis - a graphical data visualization framework using JavaScript and SVG

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Reversible programming

http://www.stanford.edu/~jacobt/reversible.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/how-the-robber-barons-hijacked-the-victorian-internet.ars

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Tagger: a library for extracting relevant tags from text documents

https://github.com/apresta/tagger

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

The problems with HTML5 audio

http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2011/05/ive-been-having-twitter-back-and-forth.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

24in60.com: The last 24 hours in 60-second, unbiased news bites.

http://www.24in60.com/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Netflix Co-Founder: It isn't lying if you believe it

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/13/it-isnt-lying-if-you-believe-it/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Rumor: Amazon has an “entire family” of Android devices coming this holiday

http://androidandme.com/2011/05/news/rumor-amazon-has-an-entire-family-of-android-devices-coming-this-holiday/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

An Indian Entrepreneur visits New York: "I was born in the wrong country"

http://thenextweb.com/in/2011/05/13/an-indian-entrepreneur-visits-new-york-i-was-born-in-the-wrong-country/?awesm=tnw.to_18Gbt&utm_content=api&utm_medium=tnw.to-other&utm_source=direct-tnw.to

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Fame

http://zachholman.com/posts/fame/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Operation Crossbow: How 3D glasses helped win WWII

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13359064

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Nemerle 1.0

http://nemerle.org/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

Hacker Writing Style

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

An update on Redis and Lua

http://antirez.com/post/an-update-on-redis-and-lua.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask PG: Can we have comment scores back please?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545983

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Programming error invalidates US Diversity Visa lottery results

http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 65 comments

JQuery 1.6.1 released...

http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Current_Release

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Intel left outside

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/computer_processors

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2009/02/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Data Visualization with elasticsearch and Protovis

http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/2011/05/13/data-visualization-with-elasticsearch-and-protovis.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 0 comments
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