top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-28

Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code

http://muddylemon.com/2011/05/depression-burn-out-and-writing-code/

15 years ago

380 upvotes – 166 comments

How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

http://markmaunder.com/2009/how-to-handle-1000s-of-concurrent-users-on-a-360mb-vps/

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 78 comments

How Facebook pushes updates to the site

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977&oid=9445547199&comments

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant

http://paulisageek.com/imdb-250-netflix/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 67 comments

Can We Kill This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/13281714462/can-we-kill-off-this-myth-that-internet-is-wild-west-that-needs-to-be-tamed.shtml

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 47 comments

Pastebin abused

http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/pastebin-abused/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 50 comments

What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you?

http://io9.com/5805244/what-would-a-teaspoonful-of-neutron-star-do-to-you

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 38 comments

Speeding up Rails startup time

http://rhnh.net/2011/05/28/speeding-up-rails-startup-time

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 31 comments

A Refrigerator that Runs Without Electricity

http://www.celsias.com/article/a-refrigerator-that-runs-without-electricity/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 60 comments

Your Commute Is Killing You

http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/pagenum/all/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 85 comments

Discover the Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups

http://startupgenome.cc/discover-the-patterns-of-successful-internet

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

How Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Really works

http://blog.vjeux.com/2011/javascript/how-prototypal-inheritance-really-works.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Samsung’s lawyers demand to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/28/samsung-apple-iphone-5-ipad-3/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

Waiting 100+ Years for Version 2.0

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110519/17104214346/waiting-100-years-version-20.shtml

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 57 comments

Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/05/blaring-alarms-confused-doomed.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised

http://daftpunk.themaninblue.com/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

Its About The Hashbangs

http://www.danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Iran Vows to Unplug Internet

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704889404576277391449002016.html?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_MIDDLETopNews

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Functional languages will rule (but not this year)

http://goodstuff.im/functional-languages-will-rule-but-not-this-y

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

How language shapes thought

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-language-shapes-thought&print=true

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments
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