top 50% 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

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

Wield Python's super() like a Jedi

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

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 63 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

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

"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

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

ActiveMQ: Not ready for prime time

http://goodstuff.im/activemq-not-ready-for-prime-time

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 91 comments

Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation

http://lunduke.com/?p=1693

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 90 comments

Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

http://namecoin.bitcoin-contact.org/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Rosetta Code: solutions to the same task in many languages

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Rosetta_Code

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Cookie law makes most UK websites illegal: what you need to know

http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/cookie-law-makes-most-uk-websites-illegal-what-you-need-to-know/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

Skills a Designer Must Have when Working for a Startup

http://blog.stylej.am/5-skills-a-designer-must-have-when-working-in

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV (MIT OpenCourseWare)

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-01-unified-engineering-i-ii-iii-iv-fall-2005-spring-2006/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

The problem with blogging

http://swombat.com/2011/5/26/real-value-web

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Wallet

http://www.google.com/wallet

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Oracle v. Google - A judge grounded in the real world

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110526082246873

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Compilers and Compiler Generators

http://scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/conts.htm

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Edward Tufte, Information Sage

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php#

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

IdeaPaint Coming to 1,700 Lowe's Stores

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-25/ready-to-erase-whiteboards-ideapaint-lands-1-700-lowe-s-stores.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Tech Boom Hits New York

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576347170689688438.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_announces_apis_scheduled_for_shutdown.php

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

Marketing for Hackers: a 5-min intro, 97% BS-free

http://dbasch.posterous.com/marketing-for-hackers-a-5-min-intro-97-bs-fre

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Hello World, by Oracle

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/application/examples/HelloWorldApp.java

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

Google's Street View starts mapping India

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFoWVQF7xBpDXRIkUvRVkhqVT1ZQ?docId=CNG.3ae2c53954517f8b64ed19d65a6b92c0.771

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 26 comments

Nigerian Hackers Threaten Government.

http://codename-intrusion.blogspot.com/2011/05/government-website-hacked-by.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

RubyGems is not a Battlefield, Part I (5/25 meeting w. Eric+Ryan)

http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/rubygems-is-not-a-battlefield-part-1-notes-fr

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 12 comments

Introducing the people widget

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-people-widget.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 9 comments
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