top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-23

Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/05/23/vacation.in.america/index.html

15 years ago

413 upvotes – 412 comments

Chrome has transcended version numbers

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-version.html

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 86 comments

C++ at Google: Here Be Dragons

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/c-at-google-here-be-dragons.html

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 88 comments

Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys

http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_lodsys_letter_text.html

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 91 comments

Are you a technical person?

http://johnfn.github.com/johnfn/post1.html

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 98 comments

Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/squares-disruptive-new-ipad-payments-service-will-replace-cash-registers/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 128 comments

Online services I pay for

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/05/online-services-i-pay-for.html

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple Tells Lodsys Patent Troll to Back Off

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/05/23/apple-says-developers-are-licensed-for-lodsys-patents/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 51 comments

Glossy vs matte screens: why the PC industry’s out of touch

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/23/glossy-vs-matte-screens-why-the-pc-industrys-out-of-touch/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 95 comments

Linux 2.8.0?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/63589

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS

http://status.heroku.com/incident/156

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

Fighting micro-burn-out

http://blog.asmartbear.com/burn-out.html

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

Eclipse Orion

http://www.eclipse.org/orion/index.php

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Android Developer Income Report #10

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-10/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

Sony Hacked Again: SQL injection attack against SonyMusic.gr exposes user data

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/22/sony-bmg-greece-the-latest-hacked-sony-site/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

The failure of Second Life

http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/05/22/the_failure_of_second_life/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Laser puts record data rate through fibre: 26 terabits per second

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13469924

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

Why python?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Why two engineers left Apple to build a Flash alternative: Hype's (YC W11) Story

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/05/23/why-two-engineers-left-apple-to-build-a-flash-alternative-the-hype-yc-w11-story/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 18 comments

A year on: Flash still not on the iPad, and that's still a good decision

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/167413/year-flash-still-not-ipad-and-thats-still-good-decision

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments
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