top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-06-18

Amen: the world's most famous sample and the rise of the musical copyright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 56 comments

The alternative Internet, WiFi based

http://wiki.omegasdg.com/index.php?title=Project_Kleinrock

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

JSON users: Avoid CSRFs by not using top-level arrays

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/security/#json-security

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 81 comments

High school grad builds 8-bit computer from scratch

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/wow-high-school-grad-builds-8-bit-computer-from-scratch-complete-with-custom-os-and-pong/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 70 comments

Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/06/magic-mushrooms-safe-still-illegal

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 69 comments

Theoretical limit to how hard it can rain

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/i1zla/is_there_a_theoretical_limit_to_how_hard_it_can/c208i5d

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 13 comments

Chrome at 20% market share, IE9 less than IE7

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/06/17/report-the-most-common-web-browsers-and-browser-versions-today/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

Django Setup using Nginx and Gunicorn

http://senko.net/en/django-nginx-gunicorn/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Already had a Like Button (and other redundancy)

http://gosdot.com/post/6664095803/google-already-had-a-like-button-and-other-redundancy

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/08/26/reverse-engineering-the-mac-breathing-led-2

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 47 comments

What if the Web never happened

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3335

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Mark Suster: Raise Money Now So When The Party’s Over You’re Sitting Pretty

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/18/mark-suster-raise-money-now-so-when-the-partys-over-youre-sitting-pretty/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II

http://batsov.com/Linux/Windows/Rant/2011/06/14/linux-desktop-part-2.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 87 comments

Bitcoin thefts at MTGOX (Bitcoin exchange) confirmed to be CSRF vulnerability

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18709.0

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

Earbits (YC W11) Snags $605K From Charles River Ventures And Others

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/17/earbits-snags-605k-from-y-combinator-charles-river-ventures-and-others/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Smooth CoffeeScript

http://issuu.com/autotelicum/docs/smooth_coffeescript

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

How do you act on all that product feedback?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/06/how-do-you-act-on-all-that-product-feedback.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Firefox 5 slips out ahead of schedule, gets official June 21st

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/18/firefox-5-slips-out-ahead-of-schedule-gets-official-june-21st/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2669457

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End: Duke Nukem Forever

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/video-games/duke-nukem-forever-is-released-after-14-years.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments
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