top 50% 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

Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26778

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Arduino.js

http://www.schillmania.com/projects/arduino-js/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

Misuse of 3-D digital lens leaves 2-D movies in the dark

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/05/22/misuse_of_3_d_digital_lens_leaves_2_d_movies_in_the_dark/?page=full

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/04/17/where_does_good_come_from/?page=full

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

A perspective on four languages (C, Common Lisp, Forth, and Haskell)

http://madhadron.com/?p=191

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Does Depression Help Us Think Better?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/does-depression-help-us-think-better/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Lady Gaga's $0.99 Album Download Overwhelms Amazon

http://mashable.com/2011/05/23/lady-gaga-amazon-2/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

Twitpic makes deal with news agency to sell users' uploaded photos

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/technology/23terms.html?_r=1

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Chrome Courgette differential compression algorithm

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courgette

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

What determines word length? Not frequency after all.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/words-count-0210.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Filter Hacker News by tags (70K past URLs and hourly sync)

http://archfinch.com/tag/hn

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

How I didn't take down the Internet

http://code.mixpanel.com/my-first-week-at-mixpanel-or-how-i-didnt-take-down-the-internet/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Andrew Chen's 2011 Blogging Roadmap: “Zero to product/market fit”

http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/05/22/2011-blogging-roadmap-zero-to-productmarket-fit/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-import-thing-to-understand-about.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Node.JS Help Sheet

http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/1930

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments

Annoying.js: How to be an asshole

http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/annoying-js-how-to-be-an-asshole/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Gamifying Github

http://coderwall.com

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

iPad Usability: Year One

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Single Page Applications with Node.js

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/single-page-apps-with-nodejs

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

How We Thought We Could Use Scala and Clojure and How We Actually Did

http://ontwik.com/clojure/how-we-thought-we-could-use-scala-and-clojure-and-how-we-actually-did/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Duncan Riley sells Inquisitr for $330,000

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/growth/2011-05-20/tech-writer-entrepreneur-duncan-riley-sells-inquisitr-for-$330000.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Evernote Architecture - 9 Million Users and 150 Million Requests a Day

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/5/23/evernote-architecture-9-million-users-and-150-million-reques.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Completely unfair comparison of JavaScript syntax highlighters

http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2011/05/22/highlighters-comparison/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

California Startups: Your Company's Fate May Be Decided Tomorrow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2577063

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments

Pictures of Earth 750 million years ago to the present

https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/planetary-habitability-laboratory-upra/projects/visual-paleo-earth

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law

http://arstechnica.com/#!/tech-policy/news/2011/05/north-carolina-governor-refuses-to-block-anti-muni-broadband-law.ars

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Google Claims 30% Latency Reduction In Chrome

http://www.conceivablytech.com/7566/products/google-claims-30-latency-reduction-in-chrome

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

Go at Google I/O 2011: videos

http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/go-at-google-io-2011-videos.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments
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