top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-23

Kind of Screwed

http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

15 years ago

611 upvotes – 237 comments

The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6830514157

15 years ago

581 upvotes – 250 comments

Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6441218/c-local-variable-can-be-accessed-outside-its-scope/6445794#6445794

15 years ago

418 upvotes – 98 comments

Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars

http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/06/22/nevada-passes-law-authorizing-driverless-cars/

15 years ago

400 upvotes – 202 comments

LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/chinga_la_migra_1.txt

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 198 comments

Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting

http://echoprint.me/

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 53 comments

Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft’s Help

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/23/porting-node-to-windows-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-help/

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 77 comments

Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users

http://blog.optimizely.com/introducing-guidersjs-an-open-source-guider-e

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 26 comments

Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

http://blog.mongolab.com/?p=23

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 132 comments

Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle

http://xmpp.org/2011/06/the-future-is-jingle/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 47 comments

Card.io - fast and easy mobile credit card scanning

https://www.card.io/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 55 comments

Why is there only one human species?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13874671?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 114 comments

Should I Change My Password?

https://shouldichangemypassword.com/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 100 comments

Tech journalists who make no sense

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2960-tech-journalists-who-make-no-sense

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 41 comments

How to program independent games

http://the-witness.net/news/?p=1004

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 14 comments

SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js

https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream

15 years ago

★ 3.5k JavaScript MIT
128 upvotes – 37 comments

VisualSearch.js: A Rich Search Box for Real Data

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2011/06/code-drop-visualsearch-js/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 12 comments

We Spent $1,138 on Facebook in 6 Days: Numbers and Lessons Learned

https://signnow.com/blog/2011/06/23/we-spent-1138-on-facebook-in-6-days-numbers-and-lessons-learned/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 67 comments

Computer vision (online book)

http://computervisionmodels.blogspot.com/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

Reddit's possible solution to famous Zodiac cipher

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i6b1o/update_im_the_guy_who_took_3_days_off_of_work_in/c21azoo

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

53 VCs from 40 firms send letter opposing PROTECT IP

http://www.usv.com/2011/06/the-protect-ip-act-will-slow-start-up-innovation.php

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Top 20 Motivation Hacks

http://zenhabits.net/top-20-motivation-hacks-overview/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

New multiferroic alloy turns waste heat into green electricity for free

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/87680-new-alloy-turns-waste-heat-into-electricity-for-free

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/22/how-many-users-does-turntable-fm-have-2011-06-22/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 62 comments

Google: 'At scale, everything breaks'

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/06/22/google-at-scale-everything-breaks-40093061/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Lawmaker wants 4G carriers to disclose throttling and speed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/congress-considers-law-to-make-4g-providers-fess-up-on-speeds.ars

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

How do JavaScript closures work?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/111102/26406

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Happy Birthday, Alan Turing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Clojure/core Reading List: Rationale, tutorials, resources

http://clojure.com/reading.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Counterpoint: 200,000 apps is what they want

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2962-counterpoint-200000-apps-is-what-they-want

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)

http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate-impact/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 93 comments

NASA launches 100-year quest to send humans to the stars

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0618/NASA-launches-100-year-quest-to-send-humans-to-the-stars

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

GameSalad: Free HTML5/iOS game creator for Mac

http://gamesalad.com/products

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Ever been accused of sounding too technical? Maybe people just don't care

http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/Maybe_people_just_don%27t_care

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments

The Day After You Get Funded

http://tout.ly/jmRJ6s

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Leaving a Million Bucks on the Table: Why Flotype Pivoted in Y Combinator

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/06/23/leaving-a-million-bucks-on-the-table-why-flotype-pivoted-in-y-combinator/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Elop himself leaks Nokia's first Windows Phone

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/23/nokias-first-windows-phone-images-and-video/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments
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