top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-15

Telescopictext

http://www.telescopictext.com/

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 65 comments

The senators who say linking to certain sites should be a felony

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/11210514265/senators-who-say-merely-linking-to-certain-sites-should-be-felony.shtml

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 90 comments

How to make wifi work at tech conferences

http://www.nonblocking.io/2011/05/how-to-make-wifi-work-at-tech.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 37 comments

JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't

http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 35 comments

Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough

http://blog.tstmedia.com/news_article/show/86942?referrer_id=308069

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 137 comments

Carnegie Mellon creates fund to invest in its recent graduates

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2011/May/may15_openfieldentrepreneurs.shtml

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 42 comments

What’s up with ARM

http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/what%E2%80%99s-with-arm

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 6 comments

The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/the-chilling-story-of-genius-in-a-land-of-chronic-unemployment/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

President Obama Wants You--In Jail

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/President-Obama-Wants-You-In-Jail

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform

http://blog.zuupy.com/3-reasons-that-we-are-moving-away-from-facebo

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Perl 5.14 released

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/perl-514.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Hire based on interest, not credentials

http://regardingwork.com/2011/05/13/hire-based-on-interest-not-credentials/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

Bill Gates: Why MIT matters

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/Gates/?p1=Upbox_links

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

DCA: A simple, unpatentable cancer treatment?

http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/Home/index.cfm

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94)

http://www2.parc.com/csl/groups/sda/projects/oi/towards-talk/transcript.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

UC Berkeley Engineers help paraplegic student walk at graduation

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/12/paraplegic-student-exoskeleton-graduation-walk/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

A conversation about open source licenses

https://gist.github.com/972893

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/05/12/entering-the-minority-report-era-a-video-series/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition - Preview

http://blog.portswigger.net/2011/05/web-app-hackers-handbook-2nd-edition.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Is Bitcoin the most dangerous open source project ever?

http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments
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