top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-17

JavaScript mp3 decoder allows Firefox to play mp3 without flash

http://jsmad.org/

15 years ago

409 upvotes – 94 comments

AOL Exposed: A Former AOL Employee Speaks Out

http://thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-aol-content-slave-speaks-out/

15 years ago

374 upvotes – 113 comments

LulzSec: Why we do what we do

http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f

15 years ago

329 upvotes – 179 comments

Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcp0uZsY7k

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 80 comments

Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/17/we-will-fight-in-the-shade/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

http://roll.io

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 104 comments

I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/48698/i-dont-program-in-my-spare-time-does-that-make-me-a-bad-developer

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 145 comments

The Clock in the Mountain

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/the_clock_in_th.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kklifestream+%28KK+Lifestream%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 36 comments

Jedberg leaves reddit

http://www.reddit.com/tb/i29yk

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 89 comments

Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/06/17/software-businesses-in-5-hours-a-week-microconf-2010-presentation-1-hour/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple’s iCloud Icon Uses The Golden Ratio

http://stam-design-stam.blogspot.com/2011/06/icloud.html

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

An Open Letter To LulzSec

http://pastebin.com/pbhBQLKy

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 50 comments

The 18-year-old who landed a Cessna in Soviet-era Moscow's Red Square

http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/06/03/npf-infiltration/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 18 comments

Why you shouldn't start a startup

http://laurentk.posterous.com/beating-startups-dead-horse

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

US Senators ignore unintended consequences of criminalizing embedding videos

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/16480114722/senators-unconcerned-about-massive-unintended-consequences-criminalizing-people-embedding-youtube-videos.shtml

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 75 comments

India's $35 tablet ready to ship

http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/06/17/india-35-tablet/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Sex with someone from the future is hazardous to your health - with experiments

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/16/sex-with-someone-from-the-future-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORNmfpD0ak

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 21 comments

Why SSDs are worth the money

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/17/why-ssds-are-worth-t.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/translation-technology-may-let-humans-speak-with-dolphins/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 61 comments

How I almost got a Criminal Record

http://blog.superuser.com/2011/06/17/how-i-almost-got-a-criminal-record/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

Open letter to FB from protest leaders in macedonia.

http://protestira.me/?p=273

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Pi explained

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Pi-unrolled-720.gif

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

How We Have Attempted to Recover from Google Panda

http://ericbjorndahl.tumblr.com/post/6603914556/how-we-have-attempted-to-recover-from-google-panda

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Bitcoin's Value is Decentralization

http://paulbohm.com/bitcoin-decentralization/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

ICFP Programming Contest started

http://www.icfpcontest.org/2011/06/task-description-contest-starts-now.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Understanding V8

http://s3.mrale.ph/nodecamp.eu

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Scathing review of Scvngr by burned customer

http://www.vintank.com/2011/06/why-we-abandoned-scvngr-and-you-should-too/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Are You the Fool at The Table?

http://steveblank.com/2011/06/17/are-you-you-the-fool-at-the-table/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

China: Vote as I say

http://www.economist.com/node/18836744

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Andrew Ng: Machine Learning in Robotics

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AY4ajbu_G3k

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Mozilla VP Mike Shaver responds to Microsoft's WebGL security concerns

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2011/06/17/a-three-dimensional-platform/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Pregel - distributed graph processing | DDI

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/pregel/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

iOS 5 finally brings Nitro JavaScript speed to home screen Web apps

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/ios-5-brings-nitro-speed-to-home-screen-web-apps.ars

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

What if cucumber and jQuery had a baby?

https://github.com/paulca/whenever.js

15 years ago

★ 284 JavaScript
52 upvotes – 30 comments

Greenspan Says Greece Default ‘Almost Certain,’ May Trigger U.S. Recession

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/default-by-greece-almost-certain-greenspan.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server

https://github.com/nodejitsu/http-server

15 years ago

★ 4 JavaScript
49 upvotes – 27 comments

How do magnets work?

http://www.coolmagnetman.com/maghow.htm

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Senate Voting to make Unauthorized Streaming a Felony

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230532/senate_committee_votes_to_make_illegal_streaming_a_felony.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments
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