top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-19

You can increase your intelligence

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07

15 years ago

519 upvotes – 132 comments

"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

http://edweissman.com/53640595

15 years ago

467 upvotes – 62 comments

Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf

15 years ago

396 upvotes – 97 comments

Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/04/22/steering-wheels/

15 years ago

345 upvotes – 154 comments

Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110519/09502514340/guy-asks-software-crack-creator-provides-free-app-instead.shtml

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 95 comments

LNKD IPO opens huge at $83

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 154 comments

Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/octopart-the-little-startup-that-hung-in-there/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 53 comments

Scale Fail (part 1)

http://lwn.net/Articles/441790/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 37 comments

WeekendHacker.net - A place for very small projects

http://www.weekendhacker.net

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 47 comments

Google vows to fight antipiracy bill even if passed

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20063963-261.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 46 comments

If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=196

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 47 comments

Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1565581&highlight=

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

I refuse to tolerate assholes

http://www.jacobian.org/writing/assholes/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 87 comments

Google's Eric Schmidt: Blocking File-Sharing Sites Would Make U.S. Like China

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/google-eric-schmidt-says-blocking-filesharing-sites-would-make-u-s-u-k-ike-china.html

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 27 comments

"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 61 comments

False Start: Google proposal reduces SSL handshake to single round-trip

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/google_ssl_breakthrough/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/05/william-gibsons-cyberpunk-classic-neuromancer-may-finally-get-to-screens.html

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 62 comments

32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated

http://speckyboy.com/2011/01/03/32-javascript-alternatives-with-pure-css-updated/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

Why not mmap?

http://useless-factor.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-not-mmap.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

GNOME Discusses Becoming a Linux-only Project

http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 58 comments

Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

http://www.getskeleton.com

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Interview with Ken Thompson - on writing Unix, Go language and Dennis Ritchie

http://drdobbs.com/open-source/229502480

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ of AIDS

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/san-francisco-man-becomes-first-in-history-to-be-cured-of-aids/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

How many ANDs and ORs does it take... Low-level bitwhacking at its most fun.

http://research.swtch.com/2011/05/minimal-boolean-formulas.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Things You Could Buy for $4B Instead of LinkedIn

http://seekingalpha.com/article/270818-5-things-you-could-buy-for-4b-instead-of-linked-in

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Take a stand against patent trolls

http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/03/31/take-stand

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

Node.js training exercises, in CoffeeScript

https://gist.github.com/978411

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

A Country Without Libraries

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/may/18/country-without-libraries/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Google And Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple The Keys To The Cloud Music Kingdom

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/apple-cloud-music/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 64 comments

Hacking the American Dream

http://mike-hostetler.com/blog/2011/05/hacking-the-american-dream

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Ultimate Guide to managing follow ups after a conference

http://baydin.com/blog/2011/05/how-to-follow-up-with-everyone-you-met-at-a-conference/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

SICP Support for Racket

http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Deduplicating Devices Considered Harmful

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1985003

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 34 comments

A critical view of SICP and rationale for HtDP

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-htdp-vs-sicp-journal/paper.pdf

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple Store employees trying to unionize

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/166763/some-apple-store-workers-are-talking-u-word-thats-union

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 84 comments

Linux kernel 2.6.39 released

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-kernel-2-6-39-released-1245668.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

HTML preview for doc, docx, pdf & rtf

http://recruiterbox.com/blog/11/html-preview-for-doc-docx-pdf-rtf

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 15 comments

Devil’s advocate on Twitter’s OAuth change

http://www.marco.org/2011/05/19/twitter-dm-oauth-requirement

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments
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