top 50% 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

Per Vices (YC W12) Sets Out To Disrupt Wireless Communications

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/30/per-vices/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Java creator James Gosling: 'Google totally slimed Sun'

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57423754-94/java-creator-james-gosling-google-totally-slimed-sun/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 104 comments

Lessons of JSON

http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/04/30/lessons-of-json/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

The evolution of Lua

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/hopl.pdf#

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email

http://fuscata.com/blog/atwood-drops-the-ball-on-email-security

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 85 comments

The Startup Resume

http://justinkan.com/the-startup-resume

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/04/30/heres-why-google-and-facebook-might-completely-disappear-in-the-next-5-years/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 74 comments

Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch

http://blog.firmhouse.com/watch-me-work-building-a-new-rails-app-from-scratch

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Sign up in seconds...and then what?

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3168-sign-up-in-seconds-and-then-what

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/technology/kickstarter-sets-off-financing-rush-for-a-watch-not-yet-made.html?_r=2&ref=business&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

The Data Journalism Handbook is now live

http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2012/04/the-data-journalism-handbook-is-now-live/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public

http://johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:contents-of-john-peels-record-collection-to-be-made-public&catid=9:news&Itemid=13

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Loops and Arcs

http://www.lostgarden.com/2012/04/loops-and-arcs.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Spine.js vs Backbone.js

http://hjortureh.tumblr.com/post/22117245794/spine-js-vs-backbone-js

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Cadillac To Release Self-Driving Cars By 2015

http://www.inquisitr.com/227496/cadillac-to-release-self-driving-cars-by-2015-video/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 60 comments

Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph - how does it work?

http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=262

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Physijs - Physics plugin for three.js (bonus: jenga example included)

http://chandlerprall.github.com/Physijs/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

encryption is not gravy

http://benlog.com/articles/2012/04/30/encryption-is-not-gravy/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/04/stop_documenting_start_experienc.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

IPad app for Stack Overflow

http://stacktraceapp.com/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed Into a Closet?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/do-kids-care-if-their-robot-friend-gets-stuffed-into-a-closet#.T56lSyNVoKY.hackernews

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Integration testing Backbone.js

http://open.bekk.no/integration-testing-backbone-js/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Google staff 'knew of wi-fi snooping'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17892288

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Resumes are dangerous

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/resume-are-dangerous

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 56 comments

Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/30/socialcam-angel-funding-investors/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Interview with chumby's former VP of Hardware

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/30/makes-exclusive-interview-with-andrew-bunnie-huang-the-end-of-chumby-new-adventures/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226600/Facebook_hacker_comes_clean

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 41 comments

OO is not Computing, Newer is not More modern

http://ormomg.blogspot.se/2012/04/oo-computing-newer-more-modern.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 98 comments
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