top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-05

Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup

http://blog.hatchlings.com/post/20171171127/dont-be-evil-how-google-screwed-a-startup

14 years ago

710 upvotes – 246 comments

The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US

http://blog.marksweep.com/post/20469283331/the-beer-game-or-why-apple-cant-build-ipads-in-the

14 years ago

562 upvotes – 246 comments

I don't hire unlucky people

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people

14 years ago

529 upvotes – 268 comments

Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/20541814340/keeping-instagram-up-with-over-a-million-new-users-in

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 53 comments

Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection

http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/

14 years ago

249 upvotes – 78 comments

How To Count A Billion Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory [Probabilistically]

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/5/big-data-counting-how-to-count-a-billion-distinct-objects-us.html

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 59 comments

A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 77 comments

You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors

http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/client-side-error-logging-with-google-analytics?r=378

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 36 comments

Bad News: Google Is Doing The Corporate Future-Vision Video Thing

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/04/bad-news-google-is-doing-the-corporate-future-vision-video-thing/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 120 comments

What Americans Buy

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/05/149997097/what-americans-buy?sc=fb&cc=fp

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

The GitHub Styleguide

https://github.com/styleguide

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 78 comments

Why I’d like a “license type” setting for GitHub projects

http://mir.aculo.us/2012/04/05/why-id-like-a-license-type-setting-for-github-projects/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 130 comments

We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/05/we-got-hacked-for-seo-as-did-other-major-technology-sites/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

MPAA Chief Suggests Backroom Negotiations On New SOPA Are Well Underway

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/13292918393/chris-dodd-suggests-backroom-negotiations-new-sopa-are-well-underway.shtml

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

How to leave academia (for science PhDs)

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 124 comments

Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16

https://github.com/jtauber/dcpu16py

14 years ago

★ 193 Python MIT
112 upvotes – 68 comments

Edit scheme on your iPad via the parse tree: Lisping launched

http://slidetocode.com/2012/04/05/lisping-released/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacker School: Summer 2012 Applications Open + Etsy Scholarships

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/1-summer-2012-applications-open

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion

http://torrentfreak.com/5000-artists-line-up-for-a-pirate-bay-promotion-120405/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I hate search

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/15/why-i-hate-search.aspx

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

Yet another Google Glasses Ad

http://www.tomscott.com/glasses/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them?

http://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/ruf9w/what_to_do_when_a_company_refuses_to_fix_a/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/how-do-you-take-breaks-try-singles-bughouse-youre-going-to-love-it

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

http://blog.fogcreek.com/webputty-open-source-transmogrifier/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Software Engineering at Prismatic

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/5/software-engineering-at-prismatic.html

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Dropbox adds drag and drop

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=1116

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology

http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/etsy-hacker-grants-supporting-women-in-technology/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Finding Early Customers When You Aren't Internet Famous

https://zapier.com/blog/2012/04/05/finding-early-customers-when-you-arent-internet-famous/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Danish Startup Community Unified Against The Entrepreneur Tax

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/04/05/entrepreneur-tax-denmark

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

$8M in Funding and a Lawsuit to Boot? Game on.

http://blog.boundless.com/post/20543499968/boundless-8-million-lawsuit

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Chuck Moore on push-down stacks

http://www.colorforth.com/stack.htm

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikipedia’s Mobile Apps Drop Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/05/wikipedias-mobile-apps-drop-google-maps-for-openstreetmap/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

The Homomorphic Encryption patent land rush

http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2012/04/04/38707/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

The Birth Of Silicon Valley (timeline)

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/26/149404846/the-birth-of-silicon-valley

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Github organization for DCPU-16 implementations

https://github.com/dcpu16

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Chinese websites defaced by Anonymous

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17623939

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Larry Page's 2012 CEO Update

http://investor.google.com/corporate/2012/ceo-letter.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

On Academic Talks: Memory and Fear

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/900.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Wisdom I picked up from Eloquent Ruby, Chapters 1-9

http://www.philaquilina.com/2012/04/04/wisdom-from-eloquent-ruby-from-oh-to-oh-yeah-part-1/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Fugu - Procedural geometry with Lua

http://bp.io/fugu/about.html

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs

http://andrewchenblog.com/2012/04/05/the-law-of-shitty-clickthroughs

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments
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