top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-06-03

Try to digest the Groupon story

http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-this-deal

15 years ago

372 upvotes – 165 comments

How Perceptual Hashes Work

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/432-Looks-Like-It.html

15 years ago

354 upvotes – 75 comments

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855/

15 years ago

339 upvotes – 62 comments

Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

http://raketvenner.dk/launch/

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 57 comments

Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000)

http://www.slate.com/id/1004565/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 81 comments

Groupon is Effectively Insolvent

http://m.minyanville.com/?guid=34936&catid=4

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 107 comments

The depth and breadth of Python

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2011/06/depth-and-breadth-of-python.html

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, Scala, and Go [PDF]

https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 134 comments

$100k Revenues in One Month

http://startupdesi.com/100000-revenues-in-a-month-wow/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 34 comments

GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters

http://sourceforge.net/blog/github-collaboration-and-haters/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 49 comments

Anonymous releases 10,365 e-mails from the Iranian government

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6422934/Anonymous_Operation_Iran_TOP_SECRET_FILES_

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

Google acquires Postrank.com

http://blog.postrank.com/2011/06/postrank-has-been-acquired-by-google/

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

Groupon is a straight-up Ponzi scheme

http://www.knewton.com/blog/knewton/from-jose/2011/06/03/groupon-is-a-straight-up-ponzi-scheme/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple is professional, the web is amateur

http://dave.is/apple.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

Google to offer for-pay Translate API

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html?foolio

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 40 comments

Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/4443-microsoft-refuses-to-comment-as-net-developers-fret-about-windows-8.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 162 comments

Objective-C Blocks vs. C++0x Lambdas: Fight

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2011-06-03-objective-c-blocks-vs-c0x-lambdas-fight.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 35 comments

Plivo - an opensource alternative to Twilio

http://www.plivo.org/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 48 comments

Let's make the web faster: PHP performance tips by Google

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-php.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed

http://longtermtips.tumblr.com/post/6138846847/top-5-regrets-people-make-on-their-deathbed

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments
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