top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-10

A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09jun_bigsurprise/

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 72 comments

Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hvuhg/apple_why/c1yuah6

15 years ago

350 upvotes – 161 comments

Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html?

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 179 comments

How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper

http://ruk.ca/content/how-replace-30-laptops-and-10000-150-sheets-paper

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 94 comments

For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/10/businessinsider-apple-icloud-microsoft-cloud-2011-6.DTL

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 172 comments

Coding tricks I learnt at Apple

http://blog.joemoreno.com/2011/06/tricks-i-learned-at-apple-steve-jobs.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 95 comments

Facebook Acquires Sofa

http://www.madebysofa.com/blog/facebook-acquires-sofa/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 82 comments

The man who screwed an entire country

http://www.economist.com/node/18805327

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 97 comments

The checkered past of Groupon's chairman

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/10/groupon-eric-lefkofsky/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 68 comments

Protolol Jokes

http://protolol.com

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech)

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 34 comments

How I Learned to Live Google-free

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/how-i-learned-to-live-google-free/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 76 comments

Taking Cold Showers

http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/taking-cold-showers/?hn

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 119 comments

Chartio develops non-blocking MySQL queries using Tornado

http://chart.io/2011/making-mysql-queries-asynchronous-in-tornado/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple files motion to intervene in Lodsys case

http://moconews.net/article/419-apple-wants-to-take-the-bite-out-of-lodsys-suit/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 13 comments

How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies

http://www.startupproject.org/2011/06/price/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Buy Newegg gear using Bitcoin

http://bitspend.com/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

Free 60-minute 'How to Build a Startup' video series

http://membership.thinkvitamin.com/library/business

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Australian built Hoverbike prepares for takeoff

http://www.gizmag.com/hoverbike/18813/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards

http://www.xarg.org/2011/06/php-hacking/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 61 comments

Introducing Stud (open source secure gateway)

http://devblog.bu.mp/introducing-stud

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

LulzSec hacks NHS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13712377

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Quantum computing for the determined

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-determined/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumes record 5.3M hours, RescueTime estimates

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/googles-les-paul-doodle-consumes-record-53m-hours-rescuetime-estimates

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Rapportive just turned Gmail into a really useful Twitter client

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/06/10/rapportive-just-turned-gmail-into-a-really-useful-twitter-client/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Joy of using linux

http://minhajuddin.com/2011/06/09/joy-of-using-linux/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

Google ChromeBook Review: ChromeBomb?

http://stefanweitz.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/chromebook-review-ready-for-primetime-if-primetime-is-saturday-at-3am/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

V8 is faster than GCC

http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/06/10/v8-is-faster-than-gcc

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Twilio SMS price halved to a penny per message

http://www.twilio.com/pricing/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Announcing BlogFire - new from Notifo (YC W10)

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/06/10/announcing-blogfire-rss-push-notifications.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Early rev of 'Clojure Programming' book from O'Reilly now available

http://cemerick.com/2011/06/10/clojure-programming-book-now-available/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Why the new task UI in Taskrabbit has great behavioral design

http://garry.posterous.com/why-the-new-task-ui-in-taskrabbit-has-great-b

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 0 comments

Paperlinks (YC S11) Brings Business-Optimized QR Codes To Life

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/10/paperlinks-brings-business-optimized-qr-codes-to-life/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Ten things I didn’t know about MongoDB

http://slowping.com/2011/ten-things-i-didnt-know-about-mongodb/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

Man vs. Machine

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/man-vs-machine/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple enters the fray against Lodsys, files motion to intervene

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-enters-fray-against-lodsys-files.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments
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