top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-20

Cool, but obscure Unix tools

http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools

15 years ago

534 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487

15 years ago

367 upvotes – 306 comments

Stallman's Dystopia

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/5667398073/stallmans-dystopia

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 135 comments

BankSimple: We have cards

http://banksimple.com/blog/2011/05/20/we-have-cards/

15 years ago

346 upvotes – 152 comments

Einstein Was Right: NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04may_epic/

15 years ago

294 upvotes – 26 comments

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http://hnpoints.com

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 150 comments

Javascript Bitcoin Miner

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 142 comments

Skip Flash, Build Animations in HTML5 With Hype (YC W11)

http://mashable.com/2011/05/20/hype/

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 68 comments

Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history

http://iwtf.net/2011/05/10/ant-video-downloader-firefox-addon-tracking-my-browsing/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 56 comments

Fetch.io Downloads Your Torrents For You Insanely Fast, Then Streams Them to You

http://lifehacker.com/5803740/fetchio-downloads-your-torrents-for-you-then-streams-them-to-you-and-your-friends

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 62 comments

Patriot Act extended four more years, USA in fourteen year state of emergency

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55341.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 61 comments

Why do people resist the idea that carbs are worse than fat?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=mummy-says-john-horgan-is-wrong-abo-2011-05-19

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 179 comments

Apple to support reps: 'Don't confirm Mac infections'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20/apple_malware_attacks/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 120 comments

EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Defend Its Developers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/apple-should-stand-up

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

Wikileaks releases All Secret US Cables related to Pakistan

http://dawn.com/pakistan-papers

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 2 comments

Scrollability

http://joehewitt.github.com/scrollability/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

Working with git? These aliases will save you hours

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/git-aliases

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

Why you should build an open-source startup

http://blog.teambox.com/open-source-companies

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

The Javascript memory leak we all do

http://atkinson.posterous.com/javascript-closure-memory-leak

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Unix System Programming in OCaml

http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Phishing Site Found on a Sony Server

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002160.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Twitter sued for ‘breaking’ UK super injunction. Oh yes.

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/20/twitter-sued-for-breaking-uk-super-injunction-oh-yes/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

Want to own a book? Buy a hard copy. Amazon, Apple, B&N eBooks are only licensed

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B0dHWWB95PdkNGJkMTgxNjAtNmZmNi00YWEzLWIwYWUtNjE2OGVkNzBjZTlh&hl=en_US

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 63 comments

Police confiscate German Pirate Party’s servers

http://piratenblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/police-confiscate-german-pirate-party%E2%80%99s-servers-servergate/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

Create Mobile App Mockups easily

http://mokk.me

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Hacking Small Town America

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/hacking-small-town-america-the-unexploited-market-of-tyler-texas/238584/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

The Fugitive Series - a retrospective

http://vimcasts.org/blog/2011/05/the-fugitive-series/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

The End Of Blippy As We Know It

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/19/the-end-of-blippy-as-we-know-it/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Picking holes in mathematics: Finitely stated, undecidable propositions

http://plus.maths.org/content/picking-holes-mathematics

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Startup or Big Company after graduating?

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/05/19/startup-or-big-company-after-graduation/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_08/b4167070046047.htm

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 24 comments

Hipmunk CEO: Yeah, Entrepreneurs Think It’s Getting Wacky, Too

http://www.pehub.com/106152/hipmunk-ceo-on-todays-climate-yeah-entrepreneurs-think-its-getting-wacky-too/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Guide to the App Galaxy, by Google

http://www.guidetotheappgalaxy.com/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

http://www.pagodabox.com/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 33 comments

Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112769/like-button-follows-users-wsj

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 21 comments
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