top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-05

Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 173 comments

Perspective: All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/2010/gallery/global-water-volume.html

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 70 comments

Linux's awesome and underused traffic control facilities

http://serverfault.com/a/384155/82273

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 28 comments

Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-indian-drug-giant-cipla-slashes.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 77 comments

How not to ask questions at a conference

http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/how-not-to-ask-questions-at-conference/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 63 comments

Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial

http://azabani.com/blog/2012/05/understanding-database-normalisation/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 56 comments

Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell

http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-write-hybrid-cpugpu-programs.html?m=1

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 11 comments

Interviews Can Be a Terrible Way to Identify Good Programmers

http://thecodist.com/article/interviews_can_be_a_terrible_way_to_identify_good_programmers

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 103 comments

Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/05/facebooks-positive-comment-policy-irrelevant-inappropriate-censorship/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 69 comments

Opa replaces Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL with one unified language.

http://www.opalang.org/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 86 comments

The Grok prediction engine from Numenta announced

http://www.numenta.com/grok_info.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Heroku’s early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million

http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=687

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Glancee is Joining Facebook

http://www.glancee.com/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom

http://joel.is/post/22436341176/achieving-overnight-success-kevin-systrom

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability?

http://www.pastebay.net/308121

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient

http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 114 comments

170+ Django conference videos

http://equallytrue.blogspot.com/2012/05/170-django-conference-videos.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Today just feels magical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933579

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Server installs simplified (and built from source)

https://rayburst.com

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Is it possible to become 'excellent' at both design and coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931527

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 93 comments
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