top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-18

TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement

http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit

15 years ago

1056 upvotes – 200 comments

Do not let your domain expire with Google Apps

http://benreyes.posterous.com/do-not-let-your-domain-expire-with-google-app

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 63 comments

Being Frugal Makes You A Loser

http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/being-frugal-makes-you-a-loser/

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 206 comments

PSN has been hacked again

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/44380/Sony-suffers-frech-hack

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 64 comments

The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13430747

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 50 comments

Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1

15 years ago

228 upvotes – 31 comments

Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!)

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=635469588001

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 70 comments

Twitter’s Shit Sandwich

http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/twitter_shit_sandwich

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 111 comments

GroupTalent - Hire Effective Teams. Not Individuals.

http://grouptalent.com

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 55 comments

Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/05/henry-markram-and-human-brain-project.html

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 167 comments

Brick Nintendo before they brick you

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/nintendo

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 54 comments

All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=81517

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments

The Hacker's Path

http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/2

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 75 comments

The Bobby Fischer Defense, by Garry Kasparov

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/bobby-fischer-defense/?pagination=false

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

Ramanujan's Notebooks

http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/NotebookFirst.htm

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Role Model. Reid Hoffman Is.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/attn-entrepreneurs-mark-zuckerberg-isnt-the-role-model-reid-hoffman-is/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 29 comments

IOS vs. Android from the Trenches

http://devblog.bu.mp/ios-vs-android-from-the-trenches

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

On HTTP Load Testing

http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

Spritemapper: CSS sprite map generator using simulated annealing

http://yostudios.github.com/Spritemapper/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 22 comments

AusCERT arrest - yes, "arrest"

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/grubbs-story-privacy-news-and-the-strong-arm-of-the-law-20110518-1esn9.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/paul-graham-to-hold-y-combinator-office-hours-at-techcrunch-disrupt-apply-now/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

A Unix shell written in Google Go

https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh

15 years ago

★ 1.3k Go MIT
91 upvotes – 8 comments

Colm programming language released: best parser-writer ever

http://www.complang.org/colm/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop DDoS Attacks

http://blog.cloudflare.com/thats-freaking-awesome-cloudflare-automatical

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Google chairman: Internet blacklists make us more like China

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/eric-schmidt-internet-blacklists-make-us-more-like-china.ars

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Why and How You Should Write REST-Centric Applications

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/05/why-and-how-you-should-write-rest.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Notable iOS Developer Suggests API Boycott to Fight Patent Trolls

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/notable_ios_developer_suggests_api_boycott_to_fight_patent_trolls.php

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

EFF on new electronic privacy bill - government will need to get warrants

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/eff-applauds-new-electronic-privacy-bill-tells

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Teagueduino 0.1: Arduino just got a whole lot easier

http://labs.teague.com/?p=947

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

A site devoted to documenting every Facebook investor

http://whoownsfacebook.com/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Scientists Achieve Optical Invisibility

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518085200.htm

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Resign Patterns - a humorous take on design patterns

http://fuzz-box.blogspot.com/2011/05/resign-patterns.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Facebook is Great for Dead People

http://www.craigormiston.com/post/5606512383/facebook-is-great-for-dead-people

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Surprising effect of light could change solar power generation

http://smartenergyshow.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/surprising-effect-of-light-could-change-solar-power-generation/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/technology/18talent.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously

http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/2011/05/the-carrying-cost-of-code-taking-lean-seriously.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

Facebook Wins Patents For Tagging in Photos, Other Digital Media

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/facebook-patent-photo-tagging/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple support forums confirm malware explosion

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/crying-wolf-apple-support-forums-confirm-malware-explosion/3351

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 65 comments

The future is DotCloud

http://www.nodroidsallowed.com/2011/05/18/the-future-is-dotcloud/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Chatbox adds missing file comment & collaboration feature to Dropbox

http://chatboxapp.com/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Cuts PC Sales at HP, Dell

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-18/apple-ipad-s-buzz-saw-success-cuts-pc-sales-at-hp-dell.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com

http://chatteranalytics.com

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments

Anatomy of a QR Code

http://www.qrme.co.uk/qr-code-resources/understanding-a-qr-code.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Zaarly Launches Realtime, Local Marketplace To The Public

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/zaarly-launches-realtime-local-marketplace-to-the-public/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments
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