top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-01

Enough Is Enough

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/enough-is-enough.html

15 years ago

1032 upvotes – 185 comments

Y Combinator Numbers

http://ycombinator.com/nums.html

15 years ago

506 upvotes – 115 comments

Previewing Windows 8 (Video)

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx

15 years ago

364 upvotes – 202 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607052

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 327 comments

GitHub: Block the Bullies

https://github.com/blog/862-block-the-bullies

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 141 comments

Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web

https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/introducingwebrtc-anopenreal-timecommunicationsproject

15 years ago

228 upvotes – 43 comments

Open source remakes of games you're still loving

http://osgameclones.com/

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 82 comments

Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/battleships-a-ridiculous-but-awesome-idea/

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 157 comments

Blunt and necessary review of programming language books.

http://drdobbs.com/tools/229700183

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 109 comments

Google uncovers major account-hijacking campaign targeting senior US officials

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html?

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 85 comments

We want software patents abolished

http://www.askforit.com/2017/software-patents-abolished.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 17 comments

Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/oracle-donates-openofficeorg-to-apache-foundation-10022593/?tag=mncol;txt

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

"I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore

http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/7019b7dbfa9718a8/fa4bcca492eedc40

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 31 comments

Stopping Screenlock Smudge Attacks On Android

http://www.whispersys.com/screenlock.html

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

http://pedrocr.net/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 126 comments

5 ways to reboot a PC. None of them reliable.

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

Google +1 button for websites

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-button-for-websites-recommend-content.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/a-way-to-take-out-spammers-3-banks-process-95-of-spam-transactions.ars

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Bitcoin is not decentralized

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/bitcoin-is-not-decentralized/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 77 comments

Intrade CEO dies climbing Mt. Everest

http://www.intrade.com/forum/?forum=/intradeForum/posts/list/492413.page

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleDocsBlog/~3/LdHoDNsR0n8/our-plans-to-support-modern-browsers.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 44 comments

Autodidactism for the chronically lazy and hyperactive

http://somebeautifulplace.tumblr.com/post/6074297771/enhanced-autodidactism-for-the-chronically-lazy-and

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Heisting the App Store: 500,000 Paid Downloads in 1 Week

http://taptaptap.com/blog/heisting-the-app-store-500000-paid-downloads-in-1-week/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC

http://searchyc.com/post/6027748746/why-is-searchyc-down

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months

http://blog.ducksboard.com/2011/06/ducksboard-from-nothing-to-private-beta-in-four-months/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607058

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

Museum of me - A museum made from your own facebook data

http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/05/31/the-harder-i-work-the-luckier-i-get/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

HaNS is a pure Haskell network stack: 802.3, IPv4, ..., UDP, and TCP.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hans

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/eff-files-petition-opposing-proposed-merger

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

The Hardest Working People on the Planet

http://jonbischke.com/2009/12/30/hardest-working-people-on-the-planet/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Interviewing devs made easy

http://codeinterview.me/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

The Forgotten Sidekick

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/forgottensidekick

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

PyCodeConf: The Future Of Python

http://py.codeconf.com/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Debating the Value of College in America

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110606crat_atlarge_menand

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Awesome List of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/5/31/awesome-list-of-advanced-distributed-systems-papers.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

Hands Off Our Houses (follow up on the $300 house idea)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/opinion/01srivastava.html?ref=opinion

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/01/the-melt-flip-sequoia/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 66 comments

First Week Analysis for news:yc (HN for iPhone)

http://newsyc.me/aftermath.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Formly: the form glamorizer for jQuery

http://thrivingkings.com/formly/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

What It's Like to be Recruited

http://codebrief.com/2011/06/what-its-like-to-be-recruited/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments
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