top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-24

G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed

http://g8internet.com/

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 98 comments

Erlang inventor: Why do we need modules and files?

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058769.html

15 years ago

252 upvotes – 97 comments

Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=121799

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 84 comments

Gray code at the pediatrician's office

http://blog.plover.com/math/gray-codes.html

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 24 comments

Textify: Convert images to HTML text

http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/textify/

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 37 comments

Newegg stores your password in plaintext

http://ashercodes.com/fyi-newegg-stores-your-password-as-plaintext

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 115 comments

What papers should everyone read? - Theoretical Computer Science

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1168/what-papers-should-everyone-read

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 13 comments

Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/y-combinators-paul-graham-were-looking-for-people-like-us/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 110 comments

Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/all-your-reviews-are-belong-to-us-medical-justice-vs-patient-free-speech.ars

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 76 comments

Entrepreneur, the Magazine That Sues Entrepreneurs

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230078121476.htm

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 50 comments

Peititon for Wikpedia to become first digital World Heritage Site

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 67 comments

Idea Guy Looking for Developer

http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2011/05/idea-guy-looking-for-developer/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 100 comments

Bare Bones OS Kernel Tutorial

http://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_bones

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

http://www.getmiro.com/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

Vanity Fair reporter freak-out

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tPFggJcOw_MJ:www.langner.com/en/2011/03/10/vanity-fair-reporter-freak-out/+Vanity+Fair+reporter+freak-out&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 74 comments

Many don't have $2,000 for a rainy day

http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/24/news/economy/americans_lack_emergency_funds/index.htm?hpt=T2

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 171 comments

dom3d: Rendering 3D with CSS3

http://jlongster.com/s/dom3d/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

France attempts to "civilize" the Internet; Internet fights back

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/france-attempts-to-civilize-the-internet-internet-fights-back.ars

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Wikipedia Growth Animation

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/AnimationProjectsGrowthWp.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support

http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-paas-startups-unite-dotcloud-buys-duostack/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

An academic study of anonymity and ephemerality in 4chan /b/ [pdf]

http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/papers/4chan-icwsm2011.pdf

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Skype cancels Asterisk integration

http://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=491&e=162556

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Firefox 5 Beta is available for download

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

All accelerator programs are not the same

http://blog.jwegener.com/2011/05/23/thoughts-on-techstars-y-combinator-differences/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Depixelizing Pixel Art

http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/index.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

ThriftDB a new service from the Octopart Guys

http://www.thriftdb.com/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Twitter acquires TweetDeck

http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/23/technology/twitter_acquires_tweetdeck/index.htm

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)

http://www.tagxedo.com/shop/y-combinator

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

Mozilla Labs: The Location Bar Has To Go

http://www.conceivablytech.com/7594/products/mozilla-labs-the-url-bar-has-to-go

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 99 comments

All the things task apps aren't getting right vs. paper

http://michaeldhopkins.posterous.com/what-digital-task-apps-are-lacking

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

RIP: Tom West (Data General, "Soul of a New Machine")

http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-22/bostonglobe/29571805_1_tracy-kidder-computer-engineer

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference

http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/05/24/2-types-of-speakers-to-ban-from-your-tech-conference

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Microsoft Unveils Mango, the Latest Version of Windows Phone

http://mashable.com/2011/05/24/windows-phone-mango/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Stop Giving it Away For Free and Start Creating Brand Value

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/05/stop-giving-it-away-for-free-and-start-creating-brand-value.php

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Watchlater it's Instapaper for Videos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579797

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Zynga About to File for IPO

http://allthingsd.com/20110524/exclusive-zynga-about-to-file-for-ipo/?refcat=news

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 66 comments

The pitfalls of jargon and the damage it does to mathematics

http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/05/monday_math_a_rant_about_jargo.php

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Who is riding his weekend project straight to profitability?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579038

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Video: Google's New Sea-Cooled Data Center

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/05/24/video-inside-googles-newest-data-center/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

BofA Programmer Heads to Prison After Coding ATMs to Spit Out Free Cash

http://www.securityweek.com/programmer-heads-prison-after-planting-cash-spitting-malware-atms

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 48 comments

Salesforce.com: Putting Lipstick on a Pig

http://seekingalpha.com/article/271139-salesforce-com-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Privacy Icons

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/privacy-icons/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Calipso - A Node.JS CMS

http://calip.so/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Sony Japan hacked by SQL injection

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/24/sony-music-japan-hacked-through-sql-injection-flaw/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

New twist on virtualization - FAUmachine might be the next cool thing

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8719/?hq_e=el&hq_m=1255710&hq_l=10&hq_v=f14a010529

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

IBM passes Microsoft’s market cap

http://money.canoe.ca/money/stocks/international/archives/2011/05/20110524-075940.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

Regarding Objective-C & Copland 2010

http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/168

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/if-money-matters-this-report-is-a-major-deal/2011/05/23/AF7r459G_story.html?hpid=z3

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 87 comments

Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24crime.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 52 comments

Amazon launches RDS for Oracle

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/?ref_=pe_12300_19991170

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

Mozilla rejects Google's WebP image format

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/05/mozilla-rejects-webp-image-format-google-adds-it-to-picasa.ars

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 28 comments

UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13506289

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 12 comments

New species

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13500847

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Introducing Debugger Canvas (spatial code visualization tool)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaelr/archive/2011/05/21/introducing-debugger-canvas.aspx

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments
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