top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-08

Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/08/dragondrop

14 years ago

436 upvotes – 156 comments

Behind The Scenes At Adioso - Part 1: Reality Check

http://tomhoward.co/part-1-reality-check

14 years ago

348 upvotes – 64 comments

A set of top Computer Science blogs

http://drtomcrick.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/a-set-of-top-computer-science-blogs/

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 20 comments

Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE

http://blog.reybango.com/2012/05/08/hey-paydirt-your-site-works-just-fine-in-ie

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 202 comments

55,000 Twitter passwords leaked

http://www.airdemon.net/hacker107.html

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 104 comments

Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library And Model For Collection Processing

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/08/reducers-a-library-and-model-for-collection-processing.html

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 79 comments

Firefox finally plugs the leak

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/05/07/update-on-leaky-add-ons/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 107 comments

Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH

http://blog.dwolla.com/ach-goes-real-time-with-fisync-free-for-banks-and-credit-unions/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 116 comments

Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/swiftype-launch/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 67 comments

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record

http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 137 comments

ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank

http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/sharktank/SharkTank3OpenCallApplication.pdf

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 114 comments

We don't support Internet Explorer, and we're calling that a feature

https://paydirtapp.com/blog/we-dont-support-ie/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 157 comments

Improving your (Python) code with modern idioms

http://python3porting.com/improving.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

I burned out at BigCo. Am I a fool for thinking I can avoid this at a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3943824

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 131 comments

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 126 comments

Once

http://nbashaw.com/post/22658840550/once

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

Video streaming & net neutrality

http://ber.gd/post/22374588073/video-streaming-net-neutrality

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/243387/347353

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 116 comments

Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/5/3/crane_the_new_50_per_month_production_database_/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5ODM

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments
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