top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-22

An Introduction to Data Mining

http://chem-eng.utoronto.ca/~datamining/dmc/data_mining_map.htm

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 25 comments

A Guide to Stocks & Options for the Startup Entrepreneur (or Employee)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/Intro-to-Stock-and-Options

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 24 comments

Rails 3.1: Release candidate

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/5/22/rails-3-1-release-candidate

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 26 comments

Byron Sonne’s G20 security focus cost him dearly

http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2011/05/03/how-byron-sonne%e2%80%99s-obsessions-with-the-g20-security-apparatus-cost-him-everything/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

http://blog.zx2c4.com/605

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

None of Us Knows What We're Doing

http://www.feross.org/none-of-us-knows-what-were-doing/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 50 comments

Treatise on Font Rasterisation

https://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 15 comments

What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers?

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/05/what-if-drivers-were-hired-like.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 46 comments

London Is Gonna Be Pissed, But We Prefer Berlin for Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/22/witn-london-is-gonna-be-pissed-but-we-prefer-berlin-for-startups-tctv/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 128 comments

Woman earns college degree two decades after complete memory loss

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gaithersburg-woman-earns-college-degree-two-decades-after-complete-memory-loss/2011/05/19/AFWAMg8G_story.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

Google blocks movie service on rooted Android devices

http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1306490&topic=1100171

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Byte-saving techniques in JavaScript

https://github.com/jed/140bytes/wiki/Byte-saving-techniques

15 years ago

★ 1k HTML
112 upvotes – 22 comments

Run Linux in your Browser JSLinux (Update)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2572915

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

The CEO's job

http://jessicamah.com/the-ceos-job-part-2

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 37 comments

Linux on Windows (Wine in reverse)

http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/jan/linux-on-windows/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

Lost at C? Forth May Be the Answer

http://www.forth.org/lost-at-c.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2011/tc20110520_789566.htm

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-starts-new-round-of-pirate-domain-seizures-110521/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Why is TCP accept() performance so bad under Xen?

http://serverfault.com/questions/272483/why-is-tcp-accept-performance-so-bad-under-xen

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

The University Has No Clothes

http://nymag.com/news/features/college-education-2011-5/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 85 comments

How Area51 Hid Secret Planes

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

Tagsistant: a reasoning semantic filesystem for Linux and BSD

http://www.tagsistant.net/component/content/article/10-what-is-tagsistant

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

10x speedup in write performance in Riak Innostore based on keyname

http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-April/003819.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Java folks should stop looking down on C#: differences in similarities

http://blog.kalistick.com/java/why-java-folks-should-stop-looking-down-on-c-differences-in-similarities/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Any desktop app based startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573247

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

The three-day weekend: a dream deferred

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-three-day-weekend-a-dream-deferred/article2030623/singlepage/#articlecontent

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript

https://github.com/adambeynon/opal

15 years ago

★ 1 Ruby MIT
48 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: dmangame - a python AI game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573588

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

How to compile with continuations

http://matt.might.net/articles/cps-conversion

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

How Google Docs Killed GDrive

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-google-docs-killed-gdrive.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/opinion/22gullette.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple Store 2.0

http://www.9to5mac.com/68299/apple-store-2-0-gets-official-interactive-ipads-replace-paper-signs-more/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 16 comments
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