top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-17

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

15 years ago

Why Google's hiring process is broken

http://blog.teambox.com/google-hiring-process

15 years ago

Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation

http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/05/17/understanding-the-fourier-transform/

15 years ago

Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/

15 years ago

Fabrice Bellard [pdf]

http://www.freearchive.org/o/55dfc9935a719fc36ab1d16567972732c2db1fd7d7e3826fd73ee07e4c3c7d0b

15 years ago

Fly Like You're Rich With Social Flights (And Private Planes)

http://www.fastcompany.com/1753756/social-flights-puts-private-flying-within-reach-of-the-everyday-traveler?partner=homepage_newsletter

15 years ago

Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists

http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top-nine-government-officials-are-scientists/

15 years ago

Google Docs adds Pivot Table support

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/05/summarize-your-data-with-pivot-tables.html

15 years ago

BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011

http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110516/best-young-tech-entrepreneurs-2011/

15 years ago

Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/lingodroid-robots-invent-their-own-spoken-language

15 years ago

Responding to Criticism

http://rob.by/2011/responding-to-criticism

15 years ago

Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t

http://www.piehead.com/blog/2011/05/why-startups-could-use-net-but-don’t

15 years ago

The art of endless upgrading

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/the_art_of_endl.php

15 years ago

Is Microsoft trying to end the reign of mobile carriers?

http://fury.com/2011/05/is-microsoft-trying-to-end-the-reign-of-mobile-carriers-msftskypenokia/

15 years ago

Research Directions for Machine Learning and Algorithms

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/108385-research-directions-for-machine-learning-and-algorithms/fulltext

15 years ago

Writes large correct programs

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/09/19/writes-large-correct-programs/

15 years ago

PHP "require" Performance

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/php-require-performance/

15 years ago

99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/16/android_impersonation_attacks/

15 years ago

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a superproductive programmer

http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/03/fabrice_bellard_portrait_of_a_superproductive_programmer/

15 years ago

The Cult of Done -- are you in it?

http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html?v=1

15 years ago