top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-06-11

The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop

http://batsov.com/Linux/Windows/Rant/2011/06/11/linux-desktop-experience-killing-linux-on-the-desktop.html

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 310 comments

Detroit DIYer cooks up stronger, lighter steel, shames scientists

http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/11/detroit-diyer-cooks-up-stronger-lighter-steel-shames-scientist/&category=classic&postPage=1

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 86 comments

1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/1gbps-fiber-for-70in-america-yup.ars

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 101 comments

War on Urchin

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/war_on_urchin/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 64 comments

Swedish Campground (2004)

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Swedish_Campground.txt

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 21 comments

Permanent home for Les Paul Google Logo

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 29 comments

Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 109 comments

Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/dont-forget-your-logged-out-users.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

After Three Months of Using a Standing Desk

http://www.happenchance.net/after-three-months-of-using-a-standing-desk%E2%80%A6/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 58 comments

Language.js - A fast PEG parser written in JavaScript

https://github.com/tolmasky/language

15 years ago

★ 412 Objective-J MIT
101 upvotes – 26 comments

Connecticut Killed Affiliate Marketing with Amazon.com

http://russell.ballestrini.net/connecticut-killed-affliate-marketing-with-amazon-com/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 103 comments

Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/spiders.html?ref=hp

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 8 comments

Life of an Implementer: If you're good at it, don't do it for someone else

http://undev.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/life-of-an-implementer/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Hashtables, a new Haskell library for fast mutable hash tables

http://gregorycollins.net/posts/2011/06/11/announcing-hashtables

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Implementing bookmarklets in JavaScript

http://www.2ality.com/2011/06/implementing-bookmarklets.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Pixelmator 2 Sneak Preview

http://www.pixelmator.com/sneak-preview/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

Why The Y Combinator Model Does Not Work In India

http://frontiernxt.com/why-the-y-combinator-model-does-not-work-in-india

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

No, quantum entanglement does not allow you to communicate faster than light

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Why I Want Google Offers And The Entire Daily Deals Business To Die

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/11/google-offers-daily-deals-business-die/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible?

http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 57 comments
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