top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-07

An eruption from the Sun that happened today

http://youtu.be/Hyi4hjG6kDM

15 years ago

396 upvotes – 78 comments

HTML Email Boilerplate

http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 110 comments

Reject the PROTECT IP Act

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=487

15 years ago

349 upvotes – 33 comments

Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 27 comments

Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial

http://arturadib.github.com/hello-backbonejs/

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 47 comments

Anonymous message to NATO

http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2011/06/anonymous-message-to-nato.html

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 111 comments

RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/rsa-finally-comes-clean-securid-is-compromised.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 51 comments

Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?

http://larrysanger.org/2011/06/is-there-a-new-geek-anti-intellectualism/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 128 comments

How to steal a Russian airport

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/opinion/07nocera.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 47 comments

iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows

http://www.cringely.com/2011/06/iclouds-real-purpose-is-to-kill-windows/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICringely+%28I%2C+Cringely%29

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 137 comments

iOS 5 has garbage collection. Here comes MacRuby/iOS?

http://pogodan.com/blog/2011/06/07/macruby-on-ios-5-confirmed

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

Moving back to SF and doing Y Combinator again

http://kulveer.co.uk/2011/06/07/moving-back-to-sf-and-doing-y-combinator-again/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 24 comments

Husky Starcraft: From Burgerville to 500K YouTube Subscribers in 2 Years

http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/06/07/husky-starcraft-from-burgerville-to-500k-youtube-subscribers-in-2-years/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

Google +1 Button Performance Review

http://www.aaronpeters.nl/blog/google-plus1-button-performance-review

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Financial Times Won't Give Apple A Cut, Drops iOS for Web App

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/07/financial-times-wont-give-apple-a-cut-drops-ios-for-web-app/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 87 comments

Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming"

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

The 2-step trick to getting sweet-ass job referrals

http://www.humbledmba.com/the-trick-to-getting-a-sweet-ass-job-referral

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

3D Printed Bikini

http://www.continuuminum.com/post/6258925957/introducing-n12-our-3d-printed-bikini

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Persuasive Design Should Be Your Next Skill Set

http://uxmag.com/design/why-persuasive-design-should-be-your-next-skill-set

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Exit Interview: Founders look back at acquisitions by Google, AOL, Microsoft

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2942-exit-interview-founders-look-back-at-acquisitions-by-google-aol-microsoft-and-more

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

Netflix To Come To Linux Via HTML5

http://www.thechromesource.com/netflix-plug-in-for-chrome-and-chrome-os-is-on-the-way/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Rubinius 2.0 Preview Release

http://rubini.us/2011/06/07/inside-rubinius-20-preview/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev, Says Get to Work

http://phandroid.com/2011/06/06/samsung-delivers-galaxy-s-ii-to-cyanogenmod-dev-says-get-to-work/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

The Most Important Code Isn't Code

http://zachholman.com/posts/documentation/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

You have exactly three passwords, don't you?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386533,00.asp

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 83 comments

Lack of Entrepreneurial Culture Seen as Europe’s Biggest Obstacle

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/01/lack-of-entrepreneurial-culture-seen-as-europes-biggest-obstacle/?mod=google_news_blog

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 93 comments

CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60% faster

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-website-security-product-accidentally-makes-sites-60-faster/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Nintendo's WiiU: Touchscreen, coming 2012

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/touch-screen-controller-wiiu-unveiled-coming-in-2012.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

Infosys, TCS or Wipro?

http://blog.susam.in/2011/05/infosys-tcs-or-wipro.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Could Bill Gates write code?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/15/could_bill_gates_write_code/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 54 comments

Nuclear reactor on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992078142/building-the-open-source-bussard-fusion-reactor

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

June 2011 Web Server Survey

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/06/07/june-2011-web-server-survey.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 61 comments

Google R&D team's goal: Make renewables cheaper than coal "in a few years"

http://www.fastcompany.com/1757927/new-google-rd-team-charged-with-making-clean-renewable-energy-work-for-the-market

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 51 comments

PyCharm 1.5 Released - now with Django Template Debugging

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/new-mobile-safari-stuff-in-ios5-position-fixed-overflow-scroll-new-input-type-support-web-workers-ecmascript-5

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Security is Mathematics

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-03-21-security-is-mathematics.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Drugmakers undermine medical journals and skew medical research

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Bitcoin Will Fail As A Currency

http://tav.espians.com/why-bitcoin-will-fail-as-a-currency.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 87 comments

Security Breach Forces RSA to Offer to Replace SecurIDs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304906004576369990616694366.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

How to find the right designer

http://www.attackofdesign.com/how-to-find-the-right-designer/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

GWEI: Plot to make Google eat itself

http://gwei.org/index.php

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Skype down. Again.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/06/07/skype-down-again/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Django REST framework with admin-style browseable self-documenting API

http://django-rest-framework.org/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

My Identity Crisis: Why can’t I be more than one thing on the web?

http://blog.windsoc.co/2011/06/07/my-identity-crisis-why-cant-i-be-more-than-one-thing-on-the-web/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

Divine By Zero

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Divine-by-Zero.aspx

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Personalization Isn’t the Future of News (I Hope)

http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/personalization-isnt-the-future-of-news/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 63 comments

“Stop Spam, Draw Shapes”

http://www.josscrowcroft.com/demos/motioncaptcha/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

Handling big data with probabilistic data structures. PyCon 2011. (video)

http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-handling-ridiculous-amounts-of-data-with-probabilistic-data-structures-4899047

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

How i became a developer from coal miner?

http://ennovates.com/engineering/yes-you-can-do-it/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

How Apple gave up on web apps – to make more money with iCloud

http://www.domain.me/blog/icloud-how-apple-gave-up-on-web-apps-1503/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments

Adobe doesn't want me to run Flash on 64 bit linux?

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments

Stand-alone scientific code

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/07/stand-alone-scientific-code/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

The born-again entrepreneur

http://swombat.com/2011/6/6/born-again-entrepreneur

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Facebook - facial recognition is enabled

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/07/facebook-privacy-settings-facial-recognition-enabled/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments
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