top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-06

Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."

https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/csail-related/2012-January/006990.html

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 293 comments

Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

http://blog.doddcaldwell.com/post/20238528691/how-my-side-project-generated-sales-and-66-000-unique

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 122 comments

One hiring filter that works

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

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 189 comments

Save the Internet from the US

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa/

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 79 comments

Go: Severe memory problems on 32bit Linux

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thread/ab1971bb9459025d#

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 147 comments

The Obama administration is still voicing support for SOPA.

http://a.fightforthefuture.org/sign/obama-sopa

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 57 comments

Speed Hashing

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms

http://uxmovement.com/forms/8-reasons-users-arent-filling-out-your-sign-up-form/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uxmovement+%28ux+movement%29

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Google Maps Floor Plans

https://maps.google.com/help/maps/floorplans/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

The Lisp Curse

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 54 comments

A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness

http://www.economist.com/node/21551447

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 60 comments

Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/google-project-glass-sergey-brin/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 94 comments

Clojure-Scheme

https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

14 years ago

★ 565 Clojure
125 upvotes – 31 comments

The nameless "they" and the Facebook / job interview trend that isn't a trend

http://petdance.com/2012/04/the-nameless-they-and-the-facebook-job-interview-trend-that-isnt-a-trend/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/technology/to-fill-out-its-app-store-microsoft-wields-its-checkbook.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

CouchDB ships 1.2.0, Windows packages, new website

http://couchdb.apache.org/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

PyPy: Python 3.x status update #3

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/04/py3k-status-update-3.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Bedrock

http://infrequently.org/2012/04/bedrock/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

The startup world, ranked and visualized

http://endrank.com/crunchbase

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: MadeiraCloud lets you draw AWS architecture and clone apps in minutes

http://www.madeiracloud.com/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers?

http://cdixon.org/2012/04/06/seriously-whats-up-with-old-media-not-crediting-bloggers/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 54 comments

Why startups shouldn’t just be for the young

http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/why-startups-shouldnt-just-be-for-the-young/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

WebGL Stats

http://webglstats.com/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?

http://pandodaily.com/2012/04/05/an-open-letter-to-randi-zuckerberg-how-could-you-do-this-to-real-entrepreneurs/#.T34_BscFzbU.twitter

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Wayland's X11 support is ready (An Experimental GNOME Shell Running On Wayland)

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4MzQ

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Amazon S3 - 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/04/amazon-s3-905-billion-objects-and-650000-requestssecond.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

FathomDB (YC W08) introduces PlatformLayer: XaaS

http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/06/introducing-platformlayer/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

500 Startups Raises New $50M Fund, Adds 4 New Partners. 250 investments to date

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/06/500-startups-new-fund-new-partners/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

An Experiment: Polyphasic Sleeping

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/19990471857/ill-sleep-when-i-am-dead-1

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

MongoDB Architecture

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2012/04/mongodb-architecture.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Quantum computer built inside a diamond

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120404161943.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Get advice on YC from alums

http://askolo.com/ycalumni

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Designer of the Porsche 911, Dies at 76

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/automobiles/ferdinand-a-porsche-76-dies-designed-celebrated-911.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

How I Learned to Love the DMCA

http://blog.estately.com/2012/04/how-i-learned-to-love-the-dmca/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

llgo: compiler for Go, written in Go, using LLVM compiler infrastructure

https://github.com/axw/llgo

14 years ago

★ 39 Go
60 upvotes – 3 comments

The Milky Way in HTML5

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Skinny fat founder strips for launch of startup

http://www.bodyhack.com/blog/skinny-fat-founder-strips-new-company-1557

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 71 comments

'Faster-Than-Light' Neutrino Team Leaders Resign

http://news.discovery.com/space/opera-leaders-resign-after-no-confidence-vote-120404.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

DCPU-16 implementation in f#

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/2012/04/04/notch-is-gonna-outdo-himself.aspx

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

DARPA's next Grand Challenge to focus on humanoid robots

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/darpas-next-grand-challenge-to-focus-on-humanoid-robots/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

Are you an indie, angel or venture company?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/04/are-you-an-indie-angel-or-venture-company.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Real-time GPU path tracing: Streets of Asia screens + video

http://raytracey.blogspot.de/2012/04/real-time-path-tracing-streets-of-asia.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Forget about Kevlar: Liquid Body Armor Hardens on Impact

http://news.discovery.com/tech/liquid-body-armor-120405.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments
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