top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-25

Top Programming Fonts

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

15 years ago

439 upvotes – 165 comments

The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/05/the-only-way-to-get-important.html

15 years ago

346 upvotes – 110 comments

Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/absolute-must-watch-office-hours-with-paul-graham-at-tc-disrupt/

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 109 comments

Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 48 comments

Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/07/google_exec_say.php

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 100 comments

Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's den," rips into lions

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/eff-co-founder-enters-copyright-lions-den-rips-into-lions.ars

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Correlate

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 52 comments

Don't give bullshit advice

http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-give-bullshit-advice

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 39 comments

Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0812589041&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 118 comments

Italian seismologists to be tried for manslaughter

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/05/italian_seismologists_to_be_tr.html

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

C'mon, stop writing Java for Android

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/5836463058/scala-a-better-java-for-android

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/05/25/facebook-to-launch-music-service-with-spotify/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Announcing SproutCore 2.0 Developer Preview

http://blog.sproutcore.com/announcing-sproutcore-2-0/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

CyanogenMod Adds Support For Revoking And Faking App Permissions on Android

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/22/cyanogenmod-adds-support-for-revoking-and-faking-app-permissions/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 52 comments

How I've started to contribute to open source

http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2011/05/25/how-i%27ve-started-to-contribute-to-open-source

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 20 comments

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37619/?mod=chfeatured&a=f

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 53 comments

Uber CEO: I Think I’ve Got 20,000 Years Of Jail Time In Front Of Me

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/uber-airbnb-jail-time/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 77 comments

Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses

http://www.fastcompany.com/1755089/legendary-investor-peter-thiel-names-dream-team-of-whiz-kids

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 109 comments

Ads Implant False Memories

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

1 Database Containing 35,000,000 Google Profiles. Implications?

http://blog.cyberwar.nl/2011/05/verified-google-allows-mass-downloading.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2073520,00.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 104 comments

Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Prog Lang of the Year

http://mvdirona.com/jrh/TalksAndPapers/GuidoVanRossum_21_years_of_python.pdf

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Open: A tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their students

http://opentheclassroom.com

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Why We Haven't Seen Any Lawsuits Filed Over Domain Seizures?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110521/15125114374/why-we-havent-seen-any-lawsuits-filed-against-government-over-domain-seizures-justice-department-stalling.shtml

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Game made using only CSS

http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/05/24/css-only-no-flashjavascript-browser-action-game/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Our superficial scholars

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012104554_pf.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/science/space/25rover.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple’s iOS 4 hardware encryption has been cracked

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/apples-ios-4-hardware-encryption-has-been-cracked-20110525/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Why was Boston's winter so horrible this year?

http://www.jon22.net/all-about-the-weathah/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

EVE Online submits DMCA takedown to GitHub

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-05-24-cpp-virtual-world-operations.markdown

15 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
70 upvotes – 41 comments

Did someone hack Posterous's home page? (update: back to normal)

https://posterous.com

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Phrack Magazine's classic article on OS/kernel development

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=52&id=17#article

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

6 Unusual City Maps, Locals vs Tourists

http://blog.dohop.com/index.php/2011/05/19/locals-vs-tourists/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

A GIF decoder: an exercise in Go interfaces

http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/gif-decoder-exercise-in-go-interfaces.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

Build a “Serverless” search engine with IndexTank and SimpleWorker

http://blog.indextank.com/667/build-a-serverless-search-engine-with-indextank-and-simpleworker/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/23/6703177-that-famous-space-shuttle-photo-when-is-sharing-stealing

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 67 comments

Myth of the Flat Fee

http://www.80beans.com/nl/blog/2011/05/25/myth-of-the-flat-fee

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

Angry Birds' Cross-compiled Java Versus Native JavaScript

http://css.dzone.com/articles/web-gaming-technologies-angry

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

A Beginner’s Guide to Pay-Per-Click: Quality Score

http://blog.octoclick.com/ppc/beginners-guide-to-quality-score/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

Thiel Fellowship: 20 Under 20 Winners Released

http://thielfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=19

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 41 comments

How to get from weekend idea to funded startup

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-from-weekend-idea-to-funded.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Elastic Load Balancing - IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/05/elastic-load-balancing-ipv6-zone-apex-support-additional-security.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

PyCon: Everybody Pays

http://jessenoller.com/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/managing-herokus-workers-with-hirefire/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask pg: What's up with the randomly [dead] comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2583101

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 2 comments

The Filter Bubble: Algorithms as Gatekeepers

http://www.bigspaceship.com/blog/think/the-filter-bubble-algorithms-as-gatekeepers/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments

A Rundown of WordPress Theme Files and What They All Do

http://www.doitwithwordpress.com/rundown-wordpress-theme-files-what-they-do/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 2 comments

Don't shell out big bucks -- lots of open source BI suites are available

http://www.itworld.com/software/168101/4-money-saving-open-source-business-intelligence-suites

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments
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