top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-02

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

http://www.zenmoments.org/the-cab-ride-ill-never-forget/

14 years ago

688 upvotes – 188 comments

Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/05/google-is-making-a-huge-and-annoying-mistake.html

14 years ago

534 upvotes – 261 comments

MIT and Harvard announce edX

http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement.html

14 years ago

351 upvotes – 130 comments

What makes one appear smarter and more sociable?

http://judg.me/blog/judgment-day/

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 83 comments

Best Practices Exist For A Reason

http://tomdale.net/2012/04/best-practices-exist-for-a-reason/

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 97 comments

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/?rss=1

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project

https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/db9b442f0ac68512d0ca83fe7b25a7f9bf766e63

14 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
189 upvotes – 90 comments

Weebly CEO David Rusenko: It’s Time to Take Us Seriously

http://allthingsd.com/20120502/weebly-ceo-david-rusenko-its-time-to-take-us-seriously/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 71 comments

Common Lisp: The Untold Story

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 6 comments

The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips

http://www.rheothing.com/2012/05/im-that-guy.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 91 comments

I can style a whole app with only four hex values and SASS.

http://blog.12spokes.com/web-design-development/simple-css-color-management-with-sass/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 45 comments

Passwords For Your Facebook Account

http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Just My Type

http://daneden.me/type/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17924190

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 81 comments

EA Killing Rock Band For iPhone, Game Will Be Unplayable For Current Owners

http://toucharcade.com/2012/05/02/original-ios-rock-band-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-may/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 99 comments

EU Court Of Justice: No Copyright On Computer Functionality Or Languages

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 15 comments

Simplicity Matters By Rich Hickey (Keynote at RailsConf 2012)

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/860-railsconf2012-keynote-simplicity-matters

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

Node.js - Convincing the boss guide

http://nodeguide.com/convincing_the_boss.html

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 82 comments

Language Immersion for Chrome - learn a new language while you browse

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

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 52 comments

How LinkedIn built its new iPad app

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/02/linkedin-ipad-app-engineering/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29#s:1-linkedin-ipad

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments
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