top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-27

Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html?showComment=1306481143396#c3564212561169948866

15 years ago

463 upvotes – 180 comments

HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones

https://www.facebook.com/HTC/posts/10150307320018084

15 years ago

402 upvotes – 77 comments

It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

http://markmaunder.com/2011/its-ok-to-make-an-extra-2k-per-month-if-youre-a-programmer-heres-how/

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 173 comments

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

15 years ago

313 upvotes – 107 comments

These are things in PHP which make me sad

http://www.phpsadness.com/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 212 comments

Let's just use Emacs

http://beastwithin.org/users/wwwwolf/fantasy/avarthrel/blog/2011/05/lets-just-use-emacs.html

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 160 comments

Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone

http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five-times-more-income-from-android-than-from-windows-phone/

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 66 comments

Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll

http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 48 comments

The problem is we don't understand the problem

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/#

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 19 comments

PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/05/paypal-files-lawsuit-to-protect-trade-secrets-a-reason-worth-fighting-for

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

What Really Keeps Poor People Poor

http://jonbischke.com/2011/05/26/what-really-keeps-poor-people-poor/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 144 comments

Voronoi Polygonal Map Generation

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 5 comments

Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/robotic-exploration/forgotten-soviet-moon-rover-beams-light-back-to-earth/0

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

Ideas Matter

http://k9.vc/IdeasMatter

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

How to intercept Skype calls

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/258827,how-to-intercept-skype-calls.aspx

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Implementing a fast interpreter without resorting to assembly

http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx25_nostradamus.htm

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/google-responds-paypal-lawsuit/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

World’s first commercial quantum computer sold to Lockheed Martin

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/27/first-quantum-computer-sold/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

How Zynga Uses Ghetto Testing, A/B Testing, Minimum Viable Products

http://grattisfaction.com/2010/01/how-zynga-does-customer-development-minimum-viable-product

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/data-tracking-startup-mixpanel-raises-1-25-million-from-sequoia-rabois-levchin-and-birch/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Translate API is now deprecated.

http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Differences between German and British manners

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Computational Linguistics became an open access journal

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

House - an operating system written in Haskell

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Following the 1st link on Wikipedia leads to 'Philosophy' for 93.4% of pages

http://www.kevinstock.org/2011/05/following-the-first-link-on-wikipedia/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

How a band got into Y Combinator: The Earbits story (YC W11)

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/05/27/how-a-band-got-into-y-combinator-the-earbits-story-yc-w11/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

What the Highest-Paid Programmers Earn

http://adtmag.com/articles/2011/05/27/what-highest-paid-programmers-earn.aspx

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

Blorgit: Org-Mode based, git amenable, blogging engine

http://orgmode.org/worg/blorgit.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops the Ball

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

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Friends to Gmail

http://www.friendstogmail.com/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 21 comments

Deploying a Rails 3.1 app in production

https://moocode.com/posts/1-deploying-a-rails-3-1-application-to-production

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

Ada Outperforms Assembly: A Case Study

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~adagroup/sigada-website/lawlis.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 32 comments

Munch On Me (YC S11) Is A Groupon For Food, Done Right

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/munch-on-me-is-a-groupon-for-food-done-right/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I sold to Google

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/sparkbuys-dan-shapiro-sold-google-puts-turbo-chargers-idea

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments
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