top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-26

“Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It

http://blog.fogcreek.com/our-marketing-is-up-fog-creek-and-what-we-did-about-it/

15 years ago

393 upvotes – 88 comments

Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

Going Paper-Free for $220

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/05/paper-free/

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 125 comments

Roger Ebert: The dying of the light

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/the_dying_of_the_light.html

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 75 comments

1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13546177

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 230 comments

Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy

http://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 131 comments

Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/sen-ron-wyden-to-place-a-hold-on-the-protect-ip-act.ars

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 29 comments

Coming soon: make your phone your wallet

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/coming-soon-make-your-phone-your-wallet.html

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 97 comments

BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 79 comments

Advanced Google Analytics for Startups

http://thinkvitamin.com/business/analytics/google-analytics-tweaks/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 19 comments

Wield Python's super() like a Jedi

http://rhettinger.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/super-considered-super/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 63 comments

Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

http://blog.airbnb.com/no-were-not-punking-you-ashton-joins-airbnb-t

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 90 comments

1 in 5 APIs Say “Bye XML” - JSON gaining ground

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/05/25/1-in-5-apis-say-bye-xml/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 63 comments

Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing

http://tech.backtype.com/preview-of-storm-the-hadoop-of-realtime-proce

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 46 comments

About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/05/remembrance_of_links_past/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Inmates forced to farm gold online in Chinese prisons

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/05/26/chinese-inmates-forced-to-farm-gold-online/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

"Ballmer must go", lead investor tells conference

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/ballmer-must-go-einhorn-says/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student

http://blogs.forbes.com/bruceupbin/2011/05/25/ibms-watson-now-a-second-year-med-student/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 74 comments

It's Time for Bill Gates to Come Back to Microsoft

http://gdgt.com/discuss/it-s-time-for-bill-gates-to-come-back-to-microsoft-dqz/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Work is Fascinating: The Metagame

http://yieldthought.com/post/5862066767/work-is-fascinating-metagame

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments
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