top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-06

The frequent fliers who flew too much

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506,0,3094073,full.story

14 years ago

546 upvotes – 222 comments

Timeline of the far future

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

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 88 comments

Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/apple-security-blunder-exposes-lion-login-passwords-in-clear-text/11963

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 109 comments

Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936225

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 175 comments

I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/05/05/python-faq-webdev/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 186 comments

A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity

http://sigpwned.com/content/complication-what-happens-when-you-try-solve-problem-you-dont-understand

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 111 comments

Video Stabilization on YouTube

http://googleresearch.blogspot.in/2012/05/video-stabilization-on-youtube.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 48 comments

3x faster linux boot with e4rat

http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 100 comments

Touché by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/touche-brings-touch-controls-t.html

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity

http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/05/06/reaching-the-limits-of-adobe-stupidity/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

http://www.resumonk.com

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 86 comments

Zynga's Going Down.

http://silencedgood.tumblr.com/post/22547672461/zyngas-going-down

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 107 comments

Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/05/is-google-burying-firefox-with-user-agent-strings/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask PG: What successful startups has Y Combinator passed up on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936639

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

Kroes Throws in Towel on ACTA

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/04/kroes-throws-in-towel-on-acta/?mod=google_news_blog

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/05/bertrand-russells-10-commandments-for-teachers.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/t8de3/testpac_has_boots_on_the_ground_in_lamar_smiths/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/05/04/draw-something-loses-5m-users-a-month-after-zynga-purchase/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I will always love RSS

http://www.jefclaes.be/2012/05/why-i-will-always-love-rss.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powerhouse

http://daltoncaldwell.com/2-brilliant-moves-created-apple-ios

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He?

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/05/nobody-seems-to-understand-what-jeff-bezos-is-doing-does-he/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

Why was .NET called .NET?

http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/05/why-was-net-called-net.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/22483556686/four-weeks-with-duckduckgo

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 121 comments

Emscripten - LLVM (bitcode) to JavaScript Compiler

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki

14 years ago

★ 27.3k C++
91 upvotes – 2 comments

How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML and Lisp did not?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/143236/8575

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Five Common Rails Mistakes

http://www.mikeperham.com/2012/05/05/five-common-rails-mistakes

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Realtime "Likes" displayed on retailer's clothing hangers

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/6/3002270/fashion-like-facebook-brazil-cea-clothes?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Doing It Right, Not First

http://andrewdumont.me/doing-it-right-not-first

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

The return of heritage fruits and vegetables

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17912734

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

American Lifespan By County

http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2012/05/03/american-lifespan-by-county/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 86 comments
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