top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-04-30

Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

http://millionshort.com/about.html

14 years ago

552 upvotes – 195 comments

Why Use Postgres

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/04/30/why-postgres/

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 144 comments

High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 214 comments

Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 170 comments

Hacking The iPod: How I Earned $65K In High School

http://teddy.is/ipod/

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 55 comments

Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes

http://blog.padmapper.com/2012/04/30/voting-bot/

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

Startups Are Bands for Hackers

http://petersobot.com/blog/startups-bands-for-hackers/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 83 comments

Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

14 years ago

★ 7.2k VimL
196 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

https://github.com/afriggeri/cv

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 67 comments

The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness

http://www.fastcompany.com/1835578/the-sharp-drop-in-worker-happiness-and-what-your-company-can-do-about-it

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 147 comments

How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/04/27/how-billionaire-asteroid-miners-make-money-without-mining-asteroids/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

Groupon Plunges as Board Members Reportedly Leaving

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11514049/1/groupon-plunges-as-board-members-reportedly-leaving.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 88 comments

I'm leaving the Internet for a year

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/30/2988798/paul-miller-year-without-internet

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 106 comments

Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue to Show

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/aspirin-really-is-kind-of-a-wonder-drug-studies-continue-to-show/256495/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 91 comments

Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSON

https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 100 comments

Rob Pike - Unix trivia

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/SnEe2UykcH1

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 13 comments

OO JS in 15mins or Less

http://beardedocto.tumblr.com/post/21920818233/oo-js-in-15mins-or-less

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

SpaceX test firing the Falcon 9

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels, & scrapped designs

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstarter?ref=hn

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

MS: announcing Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/more-news-from-ms-open-tech-announcing-the-open-source-metro-style-theme.aspx

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments
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