top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-03

RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS

http://www.rubymotion.com/

14 years ago

485 upvotes – 240 comments

Want good programmers? Then pay them.

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1295

14 years ago

481 upvotes – 483 comments

How text editing on the iPad should be

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/03/text-editing-on-the-ipad/

14 years ago

436 upvotes – 170 comments

A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi

http://diegobasch.com/a-relevant-tale-how-google-killed-inktomi

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 110 comments

I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year

http://curiousrat.com/home/2012/5/2/im-giving-up-reading-for-a-year.html

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 104 comments

Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)

http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify-a-person-120503/

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 100 comments

Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/third-point-llc-letter-to-yahoo-board-of-directors-regarding-discovery-of-discrepancies-in-educational-records-of-ceo-scott-thompson-and-director-patti-hart-2012-05-03

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 205 comments

Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans

https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py

14 years ago

★ 1.5k Python BSD-2-Clause
204 upvotes – 51 comments

SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn

http://blog.slideshare.net/2012/05/03/linkedin-acquires-slideshare-2/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Python Application Deployment with Native Packages

http://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deployment-with-native-packages/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 26 comments

The secret guild of Silicon Valley

http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 48 comments

If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right [pdf]

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WILSON%20(2011).pdf

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 94 comments

XOR Linked List

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xor_linked_list

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 84 comments

GIMP 2.8 (Stable) Finally Available For Download

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/gimp-28-stable-finally-available-for.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

Starting Clojure (mk. 2)

http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 28 comments

Light Table Listens to feedback and dramatically lowers prices

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table/posts/210222&dup=1

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

New PHP Vulnerability:?-s may expose source code for mod_cgi

http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-03-1

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Fixie.js - Automatic filler content for HTML documents.

http://fixiejs.com/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 38 comments

1859's "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth.ars

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Let the adventurous journey begin: Passive Income

http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/let-the-adventurous-journey-begin-passive-income

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

Google's Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120430/07083218708/googles-fiber-makes-mpaa-skittish-why-does-hollywood-see-all-technology-terms-piracy.shtml

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Mars rover reaches Endeavour crater, finds signs of ancient Martian water

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/the-opportunity-rover-endeavours-to-find-signs-of-ancient-martian-water.ars

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Try Out the New Disqus 2012

http://blog.disqus.com/post/22325598158/try-out-disqus-2012

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

Judge Alsup asks Oracle/Google to brief API issue in light of new EU ruling

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120503175821298

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million

http://allthingsd.com/20120503/discovery-channel-gets-a-web-video-arm-courtesy-of-revision-3/?mod=tweet

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Running a startup

http://runningastartup.tumblr.com

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Some of the story of ARM, including the visit to the 6502 creators

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech_arm_creators_sophie_wilson_and_steve_furber/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

http://www.dsignio.com.ar/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 79 comments

LinkedIn IPhone App's Infinite, Swipe-Able View Implementation

http://engineering.linkedin.com/linkedin-ipad-5-techniques-smooth-infinite-scrolling-html5

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

A view’s responsibility — a lesson on JavaScript and the DOM

http://open.bekk.no/a-views-responsibility/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17916879

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/5/3/announcing_better_ssl_for_your_app/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab

http://allthingsd.com/20120502/microsoft-hires-14-yahoo-researchers-to-kickstart-new-nyc-research-lab/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS

https://github.com/mattwilliamson/arduino-sms-alarm

14 years ago

★ 240 Python
61 upvotes – 34 comments

Slideshare acquired by LinkedIn

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/linkedin-to-acquire-slideshare-2012-05-03

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Behind a Backend-as-a-Service Provider: The How and Why of Our Architecture.

http://www.spire.io/posts/our-architecture.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Two Phase Spam: Spammers that Impressed Me

http://ezliu.com/my-favorite-spammers-world-of-tanks/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Europe's space program heads to Jupiter

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15924892,00.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments
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