top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-17

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

15 years ago

1820 upvotes – 239 comments

Why Google's hiring process is broken

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

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 168 comments

Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation

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

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 33 comments

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

201 upvotes – 81 comments

Fabrice Bellard [pdf]

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

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 29 comments

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

181 upvotes – 57 comments

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

166 upvotes – 129 comments

Google Docs adds Pivot Table support

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

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011

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

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 66 comments

Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language

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

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

Responding to Criticism

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

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 26 comments

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

107 upvotes – 184 comments

The art of endless upgrading

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

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

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

91 upvotes – 46 comments

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

87 upvotes – 7 comments

Writes large correct programs

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

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials

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

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

PHP "require" Performance

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

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a superproductive programmer

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

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

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

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13434352

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 48 comments

Site replicates effects of psychedelic drugs

http://squareeater.com

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Hack us, and we'll bomb you

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/us-warns-of-military-response-to-severe-cyberattacks.ars

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2

http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-ec2

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Why did Google take a $3B loan with $37B already in the bank?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576327233056601082.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

WhereBerry (YC W11): A Social Network for Making Future Plans

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/a-social-network-for-making-future-plans/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: JavaScript implementation of Spotify client (Chrome only)

http://spotifyontheweb.com/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Why you can't really anonymize your data

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/anonymize-data-limits.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

First habitable exoplanet discovered?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110516080124

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

The False Choice Between Babies And Startups

http://blogs.forbes.com/85broads/2011/05/16/the-false-choice-between-babies-and-startups/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Conway's Game of Life in CoffeeScript

http://willbailey.name/conway/index.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Positive Black Swans: How to fund research so that it generates great ideas

http://www.slate.com/id/2293699/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

The Bitcoin Lottery

http://cryptome.org/0004/bitcoin-lottery.htm

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 87 comments

Fantastical: A new calendar app for Mac launches

http://flexibits.com/fantastical

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 39 comments

It’s only a few lines of code, or a button… pay up

http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-its-only-a-few-lines-of-code-or-a-button-it-doesnt-make-sense-that-it-should-cost-additional-money-to-do.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments
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