top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-05-31

This Guy Has My MacBook

http://thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com/

15 years ago

741 upvotes – 411 comments

How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company

http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-dollar-company/

15 years ago

654 upvotes – 186 comments

You don't get shit you don't ask for

http://www.humbledmba.com/you-dont-get-shit-you-dont-ask-for

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 40 comments

What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard

http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20110529/

15 years ago

342 upvotes – 81 comments

Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 136 comments

The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 157 comments

New Algorithm Impressively Depixelates Pixel Art

http://www.geekosystem.com/depixelating-pixel-art-algorithm/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 30 comments

The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart

http://searchengineland.com/the-matt-cutts-debunking-flowchart-79152

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 33 comments

Productivity tips for the easily distracted

http://jacquesmattheij.com/productivity+tips+for+the+easily+distracted

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 53 comments

Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP

http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/05/31/building-a-startup-12-priceless-tools-for-launching-your-mvp/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 42 comments

Heroku Announces New Version: “Celadon Cedar”

http://news.heroku.com/news_releases/heroku-announces-major-new-version-celadon-cedar-includes-new-process-model-full-nodejs-

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple to unveil iCloud Monday, June 6

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/31/apple-to-unveil-icloud-monday-june-6/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

We need an AirBNB for Mentorship--not $35k a year wasted on college

http://launch.is/blog/l024-spend-your-college-tuition-on-being-mentored-and-starti.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 71 comments

Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins

http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2011/05/31/resources-are-being-utterly-and-completely-wasted-on-mining-bitcoins/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 150 comments

Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Comments)

http://blog.effectcheck.com/2011/05/31/do-social-news-sites-deteriorate/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 54 comments

What Makes A Great Programmer?

http://thinkvitamin.com/code/what-makes-a-great-programmer/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS.

http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/31/lodsys-responds-to-apple-files-lawsuits-against-app-developers/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 60 comments

Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

http://jtaby.com/2011/05/31/google-chrome-why-i-hate-it-and-continue-to-use-it.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 107 comments

Economist's View: "The Mathematics Generation Gap"

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/05/the-mathematics-generation-gap.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View+%28EconomistsView%29%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

Glasgow’s parking lot thugs get entrepreneurial

http://www.matthiasmcgregor.com/ideas/glasgows-parking-lot-thugs-get-entreprenurial/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack

https://gist.github.com/1001206

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

GPU Password Cracking

http://mytechencounters.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/gpu-password-cracking-crack-a-windows-password-using-a-graphic-card/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Java folks should look forward to Scala

http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2011/05/why-java-folks-should-look-forward-to-scala/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+var%2Flog%2Fmind+%28%2Fvar%2Flog%2Fmind%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

How to do deliberate practice

http://thetalentcode.com/2011/05/31/a-gauge-for-measuring-effective-practice/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Imperative vs Functional Programming

http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/imperative-vs-functional-programming/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 66 comments

How to get shell access with a .htaccess file

https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells

15 years ago

★ 1k Shell GPL-3.0
77 upvotes – 20 comments

Email Reputation Causes Penalties in Google Search Results

http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2011/05/29/email-reputation-causes-penalties-in-google-search-results/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

The reverse brain drain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13595196

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Lessons from Argentina's Crazy Economy

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/doing-business-in-argentina.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

AdGrok is joining Twitter

http://adgrok.com/adgrok-is-joining-twitter/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Compilers can never generate even good code

http://www.zyvra.org/laforth/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Twitter introduce the Follow Button

https://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cb481a72e0d45cf2

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Heroku Revamps with Logs, Processes and Node.js

http://gigaom.com/cloud/heroku-revamps-with-logs-processes-and-node-js/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Don’t design like a programmer

http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2010/03/dont-design-like-a-programmer/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Realtime Search: Solr vs Elasticsearch

http://engineering.socialcast.com/2011/05/realtime-search-solr-vs-elasticsearch/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

PHP Short Syntax for Arrays: developers say no.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 87 comments

If This Then That- Simplifying the Web?

http://blog.ifttt.com/post/2316021241/ifttt-the-beginning

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

http://www.zodttd.com/wp/2011/05/it-hit-hard/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 51 comments

Why do I keep coming back to the Nexus S?

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/30/coming-nexus-s/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

WHO: Cell phone use can increase cancer risk

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

How to properly use UTF-8 in Perl

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default/#6163129

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Official Heroku Blog: Major New Platform Version

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/5/31/celadon_cedar/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments
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