top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-30

Loren wants to work at Airbnb

http://www.lorenburton.com

15 years ago

423 upvotes – 105 comments

Pixar: Getting over embarrassment

http://blog.protoshare.com/2011/04/getting-over-embarrassment-and-getting-done/

15 years ago

273 upvotes – 26 comments

Visualisation of Machine Learning Algorithms

http://mldemos.epfl.ch/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 11 comments

Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/airbnb-has-arrived-raising-mega-round-at-a-1-billion-valuation/

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 112 comments

Linux 3.0-rc1 is here

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 77 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM

http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 29 comments

How to send and reply to email

http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-email/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 59 comments

I will build your prototype

http://iwbyp.chris-granger.com

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 78 comments

Challenge HN: build pg-bot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598026

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 39 comments

Firefox 6 - WebSockets are back

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/05/aurora-6-is-here/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 38 comments

Julius Caesar's Last Breath

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/archives/001392.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 22 comments

Importance of Side Projects

http://rawsyntax.com/post/5982784556/importance-of-side-projects

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

EveryJS: The Right Tool for the Right Job

http://www.everyjs.com/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (w/ video)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/nvidias-quad-core-kal-el-used-to-demo-next-gen-mobile-graphics/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

How to understand non-trivial declarations in C. (right-left rule)

http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Reverse Engineering Firmware : Linksys WAG120N

http://www.devttys0.com/2011/05/reverse-engineering-firmware-linksys-wag120n/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

Error Codes or Exceptions? Why is Reliable Software So Hard?

http://damienkatz.net/2006/04/error_code_vs_e.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Germany to be nuclear-free by 2022

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/30/us-germany-nuclear-idUSTRE74Q2P120110530

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 205 comments

From Toilet Seats to $1 Billion: Lessons from Brian Chesky

http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/30/from-toilet-seats-to-1-billion-lessons-from-brian-chesky/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Higher-Dimensional Type Theory

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/higher-dimensional-type-theory/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks (with technical details)

http://hackaday.com/2011/05/29/hidden-device-distorts-news-on-wireless-networks-brews-beer-is-time-machine/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Why NYC is not Palo Alto cc: MikeBloomberg

http://ajayjapan.posterous.com/why-nyc-is-not-palo-alto-cc-mikebloomberg

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Exceptions are Bad

http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2011/05/exceptions_are_bad.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Tresor Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM

http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

My Job As A Pre-Launch Startup CEO Was To Buy Sandwiches

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/pre-launch-startup-ceo/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Twitter launching photo service

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/twitter-is-launching-its-own-photosharing-service/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Shell Programming for Beginners

http://ontwik.com/linux/shell-programming-for-beginners/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Google Launches Flight Search

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_search/google_launches_flight_search_sans_ita_data.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

The Pocket Notebooks of 20 Famous Men

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/09/13/the-pocket-notebooks-of-20-famous-men/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Fake it before you make it

http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2011/05/fake-it-before-you-make-it.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

UI Design Considerations for Web Apps

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/10-important-ui-design-considerations-for-web-apps/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

What Does The Business Guy Do Pre-Launch?

http://swombat.com/2011/5/30/what-before-launch

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Twitter Close To Acquiring AdGrok

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/twitter-close-to-acquiring-adgrok/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Oddities about JavaScript

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/30/10-oddities-and-secrets-about-javascript/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments

Linux 3.0-rc1 bikeshed painting begins

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments
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