top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-16

My daughter was first sued in the womb

http://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.html

15 years ago

477 upvotes – 67 comments

Mono Developers start their own company

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/May-16.html

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 80 comments

Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone.

http://www.humbledmba.com/everyone-sucks-at-interviewing-everyone

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 125 comments

Ridiculously easy world times and meetings across time zones

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 72 comments

Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it has an Internet connection

http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 40 comments

Cranking

http://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 30 comments

IOS RAGE rendered with WebGL

http://blog.tojicode.com/2011/05/ios-rage-rendered-with-webgl.html

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 10 comments

New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/new-bill-upgrades-unauthorized-internet-streaming-to-a-felony.ars

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 67 comments

Merlin Mann: Better

http://www.merlinmann.com/better

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 24 comments

Groklaw to continue with former Red Hat general counsel in charge

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110515173831922

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 4 comments

Rumor: Microsoft To Buy Nokia For $30 Billion

http://www.softsailor.com/news/78888-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-nokia-for-30-billion.html

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 84 comments

Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/fukushima-reactor-1-melted-down-2-and-3-may-have-too.ars

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 92 comments

Max Levchin's Early PayPal Photos

http://levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/1.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 21 comments

Kung Fu Tetris

http://lannyland.blogspot.com/2009/03/kung-fu-tetris-with-kinect-and-faast.html

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

How Piracy Made 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller

http://www.fastcompany.com/1753287/go-the-fuck-to-sleep-number-one-amazon-piracy-adam-mansbach

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2553181

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.

http://keen.posterous.com/your-nginx-configuration-is-probably-wrong

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Lodsys explains in-app patent warning letters sent to iOS developers

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/05/16/lodsys-explains-in-app-patent-warning-letters-sent-to-ios-developers/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 78 comments

MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist

http://java.dzone.com/news/mongodb-finds-major-adopter

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang servers

http://www.ostinelli.net/a-comparison-between-misultin-mochiweb-cowboy-nodejs-and-tornadoweb/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Diaspora - Moving Forward

http://blog.joindiaspora.com/2011/05/16/moving-forward.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs

https://silverline.librato.com/blog/main/EC2_Users_Should_be_Cautious_When_Booting_Ubuntu_10_04_AMIs

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

San Francisco Set to Ban Unsolicited Phone Books

http://www.good.is/post/san-francisco-set-to-ban-unsolicited-phone-books

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple Planning Major Product Launch For Retail 10th Anniversary?

http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/16/apple-planning-major-product-launch-for-10th-retail-anniversary/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

http://www.jaxelson.com/blog/?p=63

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Java.next() - Clojure: The Return of the Lispers

http://batsov.com/Clojure/Java/2011/05/12/jvm-langs-clojure.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

How Chrome uses a Bloom filter as a quick malicious-site check

http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-application.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

IPhone share of phone market: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit

http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/16/iphone-share-of-phone-market-in-q1/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

Exploring Lisp Libraries - and building a webapp on the way

https://sites.google.com/site/sabraonthehill/home/exploring-quicklisp-packages

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements

http://ostatic.com/blog/bye-bye-skype-top-3-free-replacements

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 69 comments

Lisp with maps instead of lists

http://will.thimbleby.net/misc-an-experimental-language/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Strange Loop 2011 conference has launched

https://thestrangeloop.com/news/strange-loop-2011-launched?utm_campaign=launchHN

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Ramsey's Theorem shows complete disorder is impossible

http://www.math.grin.edu/~miletijo/museum/ramsey.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Future of the library - Seth Godin

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/the-future-of-the-library.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Examples of the logo design process

http://www.noupe.com/design/creative-brainstorming-50-examples-of-the-logo-design-process.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

AIM Google Talk Federation now live

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2011-May/010360.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

What the Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.

http://www.slate.com/id/2293662/pagenum/all/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Stop Building Apps and Start Disrupting Industries

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/05/15/stop-building-apps-and-start-disrupting-industries/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 27 comments

In Lisp, should lists be replaced with trees?

http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20110515T0907Z.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments

Remind HN: STS-134, Space Shuttle Endevour's last launch is at 8:56AM ET

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Don’t We Video Chat More Often?

http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/15/why-dont-we-video-chat-more-often/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 46 comments
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