top 50% 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

A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack

http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Insecurity in the Jungle (disk)

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-06-03-insecurity-in-the-jungle.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 75 comments

Why RubyGems Needs Loren Segal

http://jamesgolick.com/2011/6/1/why-rubygems-needs-loren-segal.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Parallel programming is the focus of increasing interest

http://www.economist.com/node/18750706?story_id=18750706

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Scale Fail (part 2)

http://lwn.net/Articles/443775/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 4 comments

U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

A web server in x86 assembly language

http://www.intel-assembler.it/portale/5/cinchy-x86-web-server/a-basic-asm-web-server.asp

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Clack: Common Lisp Web Application Env (ala WSGI, Rack, Plack, Ring, WSAPI, etc)

http://clacklisp.org/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

LuaJIT for ARM now in Git head: benchmarks

http://luajit.org/performance_arm.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Internet cut off across Syria amid widespread protests

http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/06/03/internet-cut-off-across-syria-amid-widespread-protests/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Under the hood, Groupon is declining in Boston

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/06/03/groupon-ipo-boston-yipit-decline/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Finishing a Game

http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

College is a waste of time

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/03/stephens.college/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments

What the US does with online poker players' seized funds.

http://odenton.patch.com/articles/county-police-net-470000-in-online-gambling-seizure#c

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Astronomy Picture of the Day (timelapse with Earth rotating)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110601.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights

http://torrentfreak.com/un-disconnecting-file-sharers-breaches-human-rights-110603/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/the-way-i-work-david-karp-of-tumblr_pagen_2.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Parallaxing Illustrations with jQuery

https://github.com/cameronmcefee/plax

15 years ago

★ 2.2k JavaScript MIT
64 upvotes – 10 comments

The Words "Facebook" And "Twitter" Are Banned From French Airwaves

http://matthewfraser-thismuchiknow.com/post/6137712619/you-dont-say-words-facebook-and-twitter-are

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

Inaugural release of Apache Lucy, Version 0.1.0

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Working with Python subprocess - Shells, Processes, Streams, Pipes, Redirects

http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/working-with-python-subprocess.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Battle In The Boardroom: Why Groupon Probably Paid Off Its Early Employees

http://dshipper.posterous.com/battle-in-the-boardroom-why-groupon-probably

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

Self-documenting easing functions

http://jqueryui.com/demos/effect/easing.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

As an entrepreneur in India

http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2011/06/03/as-an-entrepreneur-in-india/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Collatz 3n + 1 conjecture possibly solved

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/01/collatz-3n-1-conjecture-solved/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

What's In Facebook's Pile of Evidence Against Paul Ceglia

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-whats-in-facebooks-pile-of-evidence-against-paul-ceglia/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Bloom Filter (Python recipe)

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577684-bloom-filter/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Heyzap (YC W09) Brings Social Discovery And Check-In For Games To The iPhone

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/03/heyzap-brings-social-discovery-and-check-in-for-games-to-the-iphone/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments
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