top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-13

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse/

15 years ago

392 upvotes – 124 comments

It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.

http://coding-and-more.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-official-developers-get-better-with.html

15 years ago

375 upvotes – 167 comments

Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-sam-garry-emmett-and-justin

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook users drop in the US and Canada

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-traffic-drops-in-us-and-canada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 136 comments

What the hell is happening to rails?

http://blog.stevecoast.com/what-the-hell-is-happening-to-rails

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 157 comments

Why Google Earth Can't Show You Israel

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/google-israel-us

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 101 comments

Why I won't be using Groupon again.. A consumer perspective.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2648720

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 173 comments

Why developers should be force-fed state machines

http://www.shopify.com/technology/3383012-why-developers-should-be-force-fed-state-machines

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 50 comments

Mindblowing Experiment demonstrating Laminar Flow

http://io9.com/5811236/this-is-the-coolest-science-experiment-youll-see-all-week

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 15 comments

Node.js is Backwards

http://blog.ankurgoyal.com/post/6433642218/node-js-is-backwards

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 85 comments

When hard books disappear

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/when_hard_books.php

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 102 comments

LulzSec hacks into Bethesda Softworks accessing 200k Brink user accounts

http://pastebin.com/i5M0LB58

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 66 comments

What does the C++0x standardized memory model mean?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6319146/c0x-introduces-a-standardized-memory-model-what-does-it-mean-and-how-is-it-go

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/html5-centric-windows-8-leaves-microsoft-developers-horrified.ars

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 103 comments

IBM Turns 100

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7369792n&tag=exclsv#ixzz1P66UKO3z

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

"Big Content" Is Strangling American Innovation

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/03/big_content_is_strangling_amer.html

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

New John Carmack Interview

http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6318725/e3-2011-john-carmack-talks-wii-u-playstation-vita-and-next-gen-rage

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Nissan Leaf leaks your current position to RSS feed providers

http://seattlewireless.net/~casey/?p=97

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 27 comments

CSS3 regions: Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css3-regions.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Collection of classic computer science algorithms written in JavaScript

https://github.com/nzakas/computer-science-in-javascript/

15 years ago

★ 9.1k JavaScript MIT
97 upvotes – 26 comments

Generating random text

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec153.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS

http://axr.vg/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 61 comments

We're five members of the Google Docs team - ask us anything

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hylnw/were_five_members_of_the_google_docs_team_ask_us/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

IOS5: There's a reason it's called 'beta' software

http://mbarclay.net/?p=1317

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/13/50-of-iphones-brought-to-genius-bar-have-never-been-synced/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 80 comments

iTunes now costs $1.3 billion/yr to run

http://www.asymco.com/2011/06/13/itunes-now-costs-1-3-billionyr-to-run/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

Bitcoin's Black Friday

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/13/592661/bitcoins-black-friday/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 90 comments

Gridless - HTML5 & CSS3 Framework With Beautiful Typography

http://blogfreakz.com/html5/gridless-html5-css3-framework-with-beautiful-typography/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

The earthquake that killed Twitter? Spam makes the utility useless

http://seaicethoughts.blogspot.com/2011/06/earthquake-that-killed-twitter.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Speech

http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=254559

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576341222166546598.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Redesign.techcrunch.com

http://redesign.techcrunch.com/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Sell Your Company

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/12/9-important-things-sell-startup/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

A JIT Compiler in 380 Lines of Ruby

http://chris.wailes.name/?page_id=97

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

The (Un?)Importance of Design

http://blog.asmartbear.com/design-important.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Darpa Unveils Perfected Nano Hummingbird | Walyou

http://walyou.com/nano-hummingbird/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

OpenPhoto, a photo service for your S3 or Dropbox account

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-photo-service-for-your-s3-or-dropbox-a

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 33 comments

Amazon’s Navigation Bar Is Revealing

http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2011/06/13/amazons-navigation-bar-is-revealing/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Using Scala in Bump for Android

http://devblog.bu.mp/how-we-use-scala-in-bump-for-android

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs

http://curiositycounts.com/post/6455747293/jonathan-stray-of-the-associated-press-on

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments

Test Driven Development in Python

http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/5463

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

Riak and Scala at Yammer (video)

http://ontwik.com/scala/riak-and-scala-at-yammer/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments
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