top 50% 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

Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

http://blog.asmartbear.com/price-vs-quantity.html

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 102 comments

Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN

http://torrentfreak.com/young-file-sharers-respond-to-tough-laws-by-buying-a-vpn-120501/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Tindie: an etsy for electronics

http://www.tindie.com/about/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

The "Me, Too" Startup Syndrome

http://funtrepreneur.tumblr.com/post/22201264260/the-me-too-startup-syndrome

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mozs-18-million-venture-financing-our-story-metrics-and-future#companytoday

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Heroku's new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/4/26/heroku_postgres_development_plan/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

Google BigQuery brings Big Data analytics to all businesses

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.in/2012/05/google-bigquery-brings-big-data.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 86 comments

Check Out This Berkeley Freshman’s ‘Ridiculously Automated’ Dorm Room

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/30/berkeley-ridiculously-automated-dorm-room/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

The C Conference

http://www.cconf.org/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

On RESTful API Standards – Just Be Cool: 11 Rules for Practical API Development

http://techblog.appnexus.com/2012/on-restful-api-standards-just-be-cool-11-rules-for-practical-api-development-part-1-of-2/#more-1299

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/t1ygb/iama_nobel_prizewinning_economist_and_new_york/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Death by a thousand great ideas

http://tashian.com/carl/startup.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala

http://capecoder.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/my-real-world-impressions-from-using-scala/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Beware The Hype Over Big Data Analytics

http://seekingalpha.com/article/441171-beware-the-hype-over-big-data-analytics

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

.NET Framework Version Comparision

http://jinaldesai.net/net-framework-version-comparision-table/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook's Roadshow to Start Monday; IPO Set for May 18

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577378513347190148.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Crocodoc (YC W10) Debuts New HTML5 Document Viewer; Signs Dropbox, LinkedIn

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/crocodoc-debuts-html5-document-embedding-technology-partners-with-dropbox-yammer-sap/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments
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