top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-04

The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/05/04/the-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-the-first-smartphone-designed-entirely-by-lawyers/

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 124 comments

The new Git-scm.com

http://git-scm.com/?new

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 106 comments

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/weak-evidence-seizure

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 120 comments

FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57428067-83/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites-now/

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 159 comments

Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier

http://blog.bigml.com/2012/05/04/machine-learning-in-python-has-never-been-easier/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 31 comments

Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes

http://blog.memrise.com/2011/11/learn-to-read-a-sentence-of-chinese-in-3-minutes.html

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 73 comments

Overpriced Developer Conferences

http://www.amberweinberg.com/overpriced-developer-conferences/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 141 comments

Getting the closest string match

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5859561/getting-the-closest-string-match#answer-5859823

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Inverse Fizzbuzz

http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2012/05/inverse-fizzbuzz.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vertx

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 81 comments

IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/05/ios-app-success-is-a-lottery-and-60-of-developers-dont-break-even

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 110 comments

Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/05/02/nine-dangerous-things-you-were-taught-in-school/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 82 comments

Dustin Moskovitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/03/dustin-moskvitz-y-combinators-no-idea-round-bad-for-silicon-valley/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 99 comments

Day Against DRM

http://www.fsf.org/news/may-4-day-against-drm

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 32 comments

DRM-Free Day, forever.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/drm-free-day-forever.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 24 comments

Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/sep/06-discover-interview-roger-penrose-says-physics-is-wrong-string-theory-quantum-mechanics

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 109 comments

Save 50% on all oreilly's ebooks and videos (today only)

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/day-against-drm.do

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 50 comments

Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/22394531080/priceonomics-raises-1-5-mm-users-unfazed

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

Git Subtree merged into mainline git

https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/634392b26275fe5436c0ea131bc89b46476aa4ae

14 years ago

★ 794 C
113 upvotes – 38 comments

Facebook's numbers

http://dcurt.is/facebooks-numbers

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 75 comments

C2: Clojure(Script) data visualization

http://keminglabs.com/c2/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

"Learning Go" Book

http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

A Bayesian Approach to A/B Testing

http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-testing/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

How to Move Doom Characters in WebGL in 50 lines of JS

http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2012/05/04/tquery-md2character-a-plugin-for-doom-characters/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-9-notes-essay

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time

http://roshfu.com/2012/05/04/seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

ReactiveCocoa for a better world

https://github.com/blog/1107-reactivecocoa-for-a-better-world

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all questions but one

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120504153813681

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

A review of RubyMotion

http://samsoff.es/posts/rubymotion-review

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Debug Clojure Web Apps over HTTP

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/debugging-clojure

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

50% off No Starch ebooks for Day Against DRM

http://nostarch.com/newsletters/dayagainstdrm.htm

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120503/13323818766/bn-removes-magazine-nook-store-due-to-feature-article-hacking.shtml

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

RubyMotion pros and cons

http://merbist.com/2012/05/04/macruby-on-ios-rubymotion-review/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Functional Languages 101: What’s All the Fuss About?

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Languages-101

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM

http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2012/05/as-an-author-why-i-truly-hate-ebook-drm.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Matterport: create 3D models of spaces and objects in minutes

http://matterport.com

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook roadshow video

http://facebook.retailroadshow.com/show/retail.html?

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

The day he was arrested, Anonymous's "Sabu" helped the FBI

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/literally-the-day-of-his-arrest-hacker-sabu-helped-the-fbi.ars

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Sequoia's Scout Program

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/04/sequoia-confirms-existence-of-stealth-scout-program-whos-next/#.T6QwLN5lZnY.twitter

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

Airplane boarding simulations

http://menkes76.com/projects/boarding/boarding.htm

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments

Entrepreneurs in Prison

http://www.kashflow.com/blog/entrepreneurs-in-prison/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 59 comments

Codecademy redesign

http://www.codecademy.com/learn

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone unveiled

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17935684

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 51 comments

Distributing Work Without Celery

http://justcramer.com/2012/05/04/distributing-work-without-celery/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments
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