top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-07

Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

http://gmvault.org/

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 147 comments

Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?

http://www.scottporad.com/2012/05/06/why-do-web-sites-and-software-take-so-long-to-build-and-why-is-it-so-hard/

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 154 comments

Jury rules Google violated copyright law, Google moves for mistrial

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 124 comments

Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers

http://devopsangle.com/2012/05/07/dell-announces-a-linux-laptop-designed-for-developers/

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 193 comments

This Is All Your App Is: A Collection Of Tiny Details

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/this-is-all-your-app-is-a-collection-of-tiny-details.html

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 38 comments

I appeared on CNN this morning to talk about why I'm not buying Facebook (CISPA)

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/07/exp-point-alexis-ohanian.cnn

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 69 comments

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/google-gets-license-to-test-drive-autonomous-cars-on-nevada-roads.ars

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 164 comments

Oracle/Google jury finds Google infringed SSO but hangs on fair use

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120507122749740#Update_3

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 35 comments

The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg

http://nymag.com/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-5/?mid=nymag_press

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple's inspirational note to new hires

http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 133 comments

What should every programmer know about security?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2794016/what-should-every-programmer-know-about-security

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 48 comments

Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/07/gumroad/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Early Startup Time Wasters

http://talkfast.org/2012/05/05/early-startup-time-wasters

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 89 comments

AMD’s Chuck Moore has passed away

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/05/04/amds-chuck-moore-has-passed-away/#.T6e7_WfWDbg.hackernews

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Use Postgres - Part 2

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/05/07/why-postgres-part-2/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 69 comments

I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets

http://simplexify.net/blog/2012/5/6/i-am-a-statistician-and-i-buy-lottery-tickets.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 133 comments

TCP Sucks

http://bramcohen.com/2012/05/07/tcp-sucks

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

Bushi.do is now Cloudfuji.com, launches Kandan - beautiful open source chat

http://cloudfuji.com/blog/2012/05/07/launching_cloudfuji.html

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 60 comments

Solving FizzBuzz with CSS

http://dabblet.com/gist/2628265

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transform-named-one-of-worlds-most-important-emerging-technologies.html

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A/B testing for iOS and Android

https://clutch.io/ab-testing/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

The Lazy Man's URL Parsing

http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing/?utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedingroups

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3172-sortfolio-going-once-going-twice

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 95 comments

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop speaker & microphone

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128735-microsoft-creates-kinect-like-system-using-your-laptops-built-in-speaker-microphone

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Node.js HTTP Server Security Vulnerability: Please Upgrade To 0.6.17

http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/05/07/http-server-security-vulnerability-please-upgrade-to-0-6-17/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/venture-capital-model-broken-damning-report-explains/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

I’m An Article About The Internet That You Repost On The Internet

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/05/14/120514sh_shouts_wayne

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

JS.Next Needs You

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/putting-the-developer-back-in-es-next

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/05/07/experimental-page-layout-inspired-by-flipboard/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Getting a Flask website up and running in Ubuntu

http://kramerapps.com/blog/post/22551999777/flask-uwsgi-nginx-ubuntu

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Javascript operating system

https://github.com/charliesome/jsos

14 years ago

★ 1k C
57 upvotes – 13 comments

The Jet that Ate the Pentagon

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/26/the_jet_that_ate_the_pentagon

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 84 comments

My brain can't handle OOP anymore

http://swizec.com/blog/my-brain-cant-handle-oop-anymore/swizec/4320

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

Evernote acquires iPad app Penultimate

http://blog.cocoabox.com/post/22586850869/the-future-is-bright

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

Plausibility bias? You say that as though that were a bad thing

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/plausibility_bias/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vs_c99_support

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 55 comments
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