top 50% 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

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

Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany

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

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 81 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

EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more

http://jan.wildeboer.net/2012/05/breaking-european-court-decision-oracle-and-google-should-note/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 40 comments

We Rejected Dan Shipper (And What I Learned About Hiring)

http://www.quintenfarmer.com/2012/05/02/we-rejected-dan-shipper-and-what-i-learned-about-hiring/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

Scaling Instragram

http://speakerdeck.com/u/mikeyk/p/scaling-instagram

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

This is how you actually teach people to program

http://jmtame.posterous.com/this-is-how-you-actually-teach-people-to-prog

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Pair (YC W12) raises $4.2M round of funding

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/yuri-milner-dave-morin-sv-angel-crunchfund-and-more-hook-up-pair-with-4-2m/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: 45 Dutch students are visiting Berlin. Can we visit your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3918342

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Mozilla slams CISPA, says the bill "infringes on our privacy."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/01/mozilla-slams-cispa-breaking-silicon-valleys-silence-on-cybersecurity-bill/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

A Functional Programming Influence Graph

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/05/02/a-functional-programming-influence-graph/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft says goodbye to Windows Live brand

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/02/cloud-services-for-windows-8-and-windows-phone-windows-live-reimagined.aspx

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 55 comments

ShareJS – Live concurrent editing in your app

http://sharejs.org/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

GCC and static analysis

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/493599/7621ec4c8ab14f15/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

The phone with a projector

http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxybeam/feature.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 71 comments

Socialcam #1

http://justinkan.com/socialcam-1

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Templates And More

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/02/google-updates-google-docs-with-450-new-fonts-60-new-templates-and-more/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Oracle and the End of Programming as We Know It

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/232901227

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

Focus. Focus. Focus.

http://ezliu.com/focus/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Stypi (YC S11) has been acquired by Salesforce

http://blog.stypi.com/2012/05/stypi-joins-salesforce-com/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It

http://hackercodex.com/guide/how-to-stop-isp-dns-server-hijacking/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

Firefox Australis: One browser interface to rule them all

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128161-firefox-australis-one-browser-interface-to-rule-them-all

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

https://github.com/adobe/brackets

14 years ago

★ 33k JavaScript MIT
63 upvotes – 25 comments

WebGL Grand Theft Auto

http://experiments.hertzen.com/webgl-gta/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Bing revamps its search page with much cleaner design

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/bing-redesigned-search-results/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 52 comments

Confused in Class? There's an App for that

http://understoodit.com/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments
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