top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-21

Firefox 5 is now officially released

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

15 years ago

373 upvotes – 204 comments

Pinboard.in service limited - FBI raided hosting company and pulled equpiment

http://status.pinboard.in/

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 81 comments

Please, make yourself uncomfortable

http://bufr.tumblr.com/post/6768971854/please-make-yourself-uncomfortable

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 97 comments

F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/f-b-i-seizes-web-servers-knocking-sites-offline/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 88 comments

LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/21/lulzsec-supposedly-claims-its-biggest-coup-yet-the-entire-uk-2011-census/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 150 comments

Chrome dev on WebGL security and Microsoft bullshit

http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-bullshit/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 86 comments

Nokia N9

http://swipe.nokia.com/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 114 comments

Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices at 0 (pdf, 1982)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 76 comments

EFF and Bitcoin

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 52 comments

Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/af1h/Experience-porting-4k-lines-of-C-code-to-go.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 30 comments

DOM Snitch: Google's passive in-the-browser reconnaissance tool

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-dom-snitch-our-passive-in.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 7 comments

Apple's infrared 'camera kill switch' patent application hits a nerve

http://i.tuaw.com/2011/06/20/apples-infrared-camera-kill-switch-patent-application-hits-a/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 74 comments

Tesla Roadster reaches the end of the line

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/21/autos/tesla_roadster_selling_out/index.htm?iid=HP_Highlight

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 94 comments

A Node.js hacker asks what Haskell can do to stay relevant.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3847108/what-is-the-haskell-response-to-node-js

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 59 comments

JQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released | jQuery Mobile

http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/06/20/jquery-mobile-beta-1-released/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Why perl has separate arrays and hashes: It's as if they thought it through

http://altreus.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-as-if-they-thought-it-through.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

Dropbox passwords optional for four hours

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-passwords-optional-for-four-hours/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

A field guide to bullshit

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028160.200-a-field-guide-to-bullshit.html?full=true&print=true

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Erik Naggum on Emacs and muscle memory

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/msg/821a0f04bab91864?dmode=source&output=gplain

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Admin of irc.lulzsec.org Arrested in UK

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/21/suspected-lulzsec-mastermind-arrested/?awesm=tnw.to_19Mw1&utm_content=spreadus_master&utm_medium=tnw.to-other&utm_source=direct-tnw.to

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Sam Odio: I Left Facebook to Rejoin Y Combinator With a New Start-up

http://allthingsd.com/20110621/sam-odio-i-left-facebook-to-rejoin-y-combinator-with-a-new-start-up-video/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Why moving to Scala - Part I - Writing less code

http://blog.furiousbob.com/2011/06/21/why-moving-to-scala-part-1/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

http://lozkayepirate.tumblr.com/day/2011/06/20

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Resources for start-up marketing/launch

http://howtolaunchastartup.com/2011/06/20/21-must-read-resources-for-start-up-marketing/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

DOS vulnerability in Silverlight 5s 3D (similar to WebGL DOS vulnerability)

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/676134/dos-vulnerability-in-silverlight-5s-3d-similar-to-webgl-dos-vulnerability

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Building UI in Google Apps Script just got a whole lot easier

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/06/building-ui-in-apps-script-just-got.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Hernando de Soto: The Destruction of Economic Facts

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227060634112.htm

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Inspiration

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/inspiration.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications Capabilities

http://digitizor.com/2011/06/21/google-chrome-webrtc/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/who-listens-to-scientists/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

Living life in 25min increments

http://swizec.com/blog/living-life-in-25min-increments/swizec/1859

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

HN Meetup: Paris, France

http://parishackers1-eorg.eventbrite.com/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Chinese official mistakes Twitter clone for private chat tool

http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/06/21/sina-microblog-affair/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

The Billy Baldwin of Conditional Assignment in Ruby

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/06/21/the-billy-baldwin-of-conditional-assignment/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

LinkedIn announces Intern Hack Day 2011

http://hackday2011.linkedinlabs.com/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Why is Google Paying $400MM for AdMeld? High Frequency Trading

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/21/why-does-google-want-admeld-so-bad-high-frequency-trading/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Our Start-Up's First Trade Show: A Data-Driven Recap

http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/57966449

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

John Resig Discusses jQuery and Decision to Join Khan Academy

http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/06/21/john-resig-discusses-jquery-and-decision-to-join-khan-academy/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Not Tumblr

http://smarterware.org/8026/why-not-tumblr

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Netflix Cloud Architecture

http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-velocity-conference-2011

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/4800-aussie-sites-evaporate-after-hack-20110621-1gd1h.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 43 comments

Tips for Honeycomb Design

http://eng.pulse.me/5-tips-for-honeycomb-design/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Apple releases Final Cut Pro X

http://www.macworld.com/article/160637/2011/06/fcpxnews.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 29 comments

Nokia confirms Qt as app platform for "next billion"

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/06/21/qt’s-future-for-nokia-bringing-apps-to-the-next-billion/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Beta users flocking over to competitor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2678363

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 41 comments

Has The TechCrunch Machine Gotten Out of Control?

http://ventureminded.me/post/6753901515/techcrunchmachine

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 26 comments

The first cancer vaccine that works

http://io9.com/5813493/the-first-cancer-vaccine-that-works

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 19 comments

Intel takes wraps off 50-core supercomputing coprocessor plans

http://arstechnica.com/#!/business/news/2011/06/intel-takes-wraps-off-of-50-core-supercomputing-coprocessor-plans.ars

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 14 comments

BitTorrent - It's not just about copyright any more

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110620131823846

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 12 comments

HN meetup: Waterloo, Ontario

http://www.meetup.com/hacker-news-meetup/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 25 comments

How to fit an elephant

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elephant/

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 7 comments

Rich Hickey: Clojure in Clojure (video)

http://ontwik.com/clojure/rich-hickey-clojure-in-clojure/

15 years ago

35 upvotes – 3 comments

Impressions : The Decline of Flash

http://evilfish-design.com/blog/?p=67

15 years ago

33 upvotes – 32 comments

The Trouble with Erlang Concurrency

http://tfox.org/2011/06/14/the-trouble-with-erlang-concurrency/

15 years ago

33 upvotes – 12 comments

Will Google Ventures Disrupt Venture Capital?

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/56196/Will-Google-Ventures-Disrupt-Venture-Capital.aspx

15 years ago

33 upvotes – 11 comments
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