top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-22

GitHub for Mac

https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac

15 years ago

680 upvotes – 206 comments

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.xml

15 years ago

476 upvotes – 323 comments

Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later

http://allthingsd.com/20110621/meet-the-stealthy-start-up-that-aims-to-sharpen-focus-of-entire-camera-industry/

15 years ago

385 upvotes – 91 comments

Ten apps is all I need

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 128 comments

The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.

http://nskyc.com/

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 37 comments

Scaling with MongoDB (or how Urban Airship abandoned it for PostgreSQL)

http://schmichael.com/files/schmongodb/Scaling%20with%20MongoDB%20(with%20notes).pdf

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 101 comments

Michael Abrash on Quake: "Finish the product and you’ll be a hero."

http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 99 comments

Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6430448/why-aaaaaa-cannot-be-optimized-to-aaaaaa

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/157/banksimple-josh-reich-shamir-karkal

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 97 comments

How to become a great finisher

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/how_to_become_a_great_finisher.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 24 comments

Noir - The Clojure web framework

http://www.webnoir.org/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News - She’s Not Real

http://singularityhub.com/2011/06/22/new-japanese-pop-idol-shocks-fans-with-news%e2%80%93shes-not-real-video/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: I wrote a co-founder equity calculator over the weekend

http://foundrs.com/calculator/index.php

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 50 comments

DotCloud Pricing Announced

https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 110 comments

Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO

http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/editorial-dear-nokia-you-cannot-be-serious/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 37 comments

Comparing Indian states with countries

http://www.economist.com/content/indian-summary

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 42 comments

PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/22/popcap-games-to-be-acquired-for-1-billion/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft tries to step on WebGL, stumbles on its own feet

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/31588372

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Consulting is like selling crack (go work for a startup)

http://team.adzerk.com/post/6796040368/consulting-is-like-selling-crack

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/22/app-watch-loopt-tries-a-groupon-in-reverse/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.

http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-team-smarter-more-women/ar/1

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 64 comments

Tornado 2.0 released

http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/thread/9d428eb487a37aed

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

The Internet Might Kill Us All

http://steveblank.com/2011/06/22/the-internet-might-kill-us-all/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t

http://markusjais.com/why-scala-seems-difficult-but-reallyisnt/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 83 comments

Stackless Python and Eve Online

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=925

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner

http://brendaneich.com/2011/06/new-javascript-engine-module-owner/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

AMD and ARM's new CPU/GPU virtual ISA

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/06/22/amd-and-arm-join-forces-at-last/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Three arguments against the singularity

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/5476ab2ffe18a286a1476293276c3149c0c2d50d

15 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
72 upvotes – 19 comments

Hulu puts itself up for sale

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/06/hulu-puts-itself-up-for-sale-engages-investment-banks.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Eclipse Indigo is here

http://www.eclipse.org/indigo/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

IE team sends a cupcake for FireFox 5

http://img.ly/5k48

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Copyright lobby holds private meetings with UK government about Web censorship

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/22/leaked-uk-copyright.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Impressions of Android from a dev's perspective

http://mikamobile.blogspot.com/2011/06/android.html?z

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/rewind-meet-15yearold-sold-tech-startup

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

The Bitcoin Crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13857192

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

My gripes with JavaScript

http://ironjs.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/my-gripes-with-javascript/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

85% Firefox Users Use Add-ons, Only 33% Chrome Users Use Extensions

http://browserfame.com/38/firefox-addon-usage-stats

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 64 comments

Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/voicesearch.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Most Australians will have their web access censored as of next month

http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/telstra-optus-to-begin-censoring-web-next-month/story-fn5j66db-1226079954138

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 75 comments

Go vs. Python for a simple web server

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/Go-vs-Python-for-a-simple-web-server.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

The New Heroku (Part 2 of 4): Node.js & New HTTP Capabilities

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/6/22/the_new_heroku_2_node_js_new_http_routing_capabilities/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

DjangoCon US 2011

http://2011.djangocon.us

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

Oracle's Java patents case against Google weakening

http://www.itworld.com/software/176653/oracles-patents-case-against-google-weakening

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Learn You Some Erlang - The Count of Applications

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/the-count-of-applications

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

Special collection of freeware tools for system administration

http://www.brendangregg.com/specials.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

5 Months of Customer Service Hell with HTC

http://happyemergency.tumblr.com/post/6777171158/5-months-of-customer-service-hell-with-htc

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 39 comments

The Making of Lytro

http://k9.vc/K9Lytro

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments
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