top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-01

Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=59350

14 years ago

723 upvotes – 348 comments

Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen

http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/419167#419167

14 years ago

531 upvotes – 64 comments

Android Ported to C#

http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/

14 years ago

516 upvotes – 165 comments

Introducing DuckDuckHack

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/introducing-duckduckhack.html

14 years ago

417 upvotes – 72 comments

What time is it?

http://iprl.wz.cz/

14 years ago

363 upvotes – 80 comments

Google open sources key piece of Street View technology

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-ceres-solver-nonlinear.html

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos

http://speakerdeck.com/u/mikeyk/p/secrets-to-lightning-fast-mobile-design?slide=82

14 years ago

259 upvotes – 102 comments

Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/05/01/build-the-rocket-first-from-0-to-500k-in-1-year-with-no-vc-money/

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913997

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 269 comments

Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)

http://megrobichaud.tumblr.com/post/22147155867/everything-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-about

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 80 comments

Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining

http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/probabilistic-structures-web-analytics-data-mining/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 8 comments

Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/EBgLFSHEFAK

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 152 comments

Three things you should never put in your database

http://www.revsys.com/blog/2012/may/01/three-things-you-should-never-put-your-database/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 91 comments

Try this at home - science experiments for everyone

http://www.t2ah.com/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 16 comments

Uber launches on demand Mariachi band for $100

http://blog.uber.com/2012/05/01/on-demand-mariachi-fiestas/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 29 comments

The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201205/burt-helm/turntable-founders-sxsw-where-did-our-love-go.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 83 comments

DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript

http://int3.github.com/doppio/about.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Data At GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1112-data-at-github

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

OpenBSD 5.1 released

http://www.openbsd.org/51.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments
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