top 50% 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

Intent Tag Has Landed In Webkit

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/116384

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Ditch all alerts that aren't actionable

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/ditching-alerts-that-arent-actionable.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Learning to Program: Why Python?

http://www.udacity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/learning-to-program-why-python.html

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

Looking At The World Through Twitter Data

http://arashd.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=34

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Help the Hacker Dojo by sending them your recruiter spam

http://www.hackerdojo.com/RecruiterSpam

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Visual design will not fix your broken business

http://micrypt.com/2012/05/08/Designers-are-not-a-panacea.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

Application Cache Is A Douchebag

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/application-cache-is-a-douchebag/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

The Brittleness Of Type Hierarchies

http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2012/05/08/Brittleness-Type-Hierarchies.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 73 comments

PyPy Status Blog - STM update: back to threads?

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/05/stm-update-back-to-threads.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PyPyStatusBlog+%28PyPy+Status+Blog%29

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

A conversation with Alan Kay (2004)

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/AlanKay.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

“Why I Declined An Offer To Work At Instagram” Via Quora

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/platform-for-all-human-knowledge/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Derek Sivers Renounces his US Citizenship

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/30/2012-10274/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 167 comments

Why You Shouldn't Code Alone

http://steelcityrubyconf.org/blog/2012/05/04/why-you-shouldnt-code-alone/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Pair (YC W12), The Social Network For Two, Launches An Android App

http://mashable.com/2012/05/08/pair-android/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

Wild Things author Maurice Sendak dies at 83

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17994402

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax

http://kiteedu.com/#

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

What to know before working at a start-up

http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/5-things-to-know-about-working-for-a-start-up/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion

https://github.com/mattgreen/spry

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Space Quest creators create kickstarter for a new Space Adventure

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que?

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

The Real E-Publishing Story: It’s Not the Millionaires, It’s the Midlist

http://steamwords.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-real-e-publishing-story-its-not-the-millionaires-its-the-midlist/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Arch Linux Chroot Terminals In Android

http://lrvick.net/blog/arch_linux_terminals_in_android/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

The problem with controllers

http://karmajunkie.com/blog/2012/05/07/the-problem-with-controllers/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Coursera/Stanford online algorithms I course – a retrospective

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/05/08/courserastanford-online-algorithms-i-course-a-retrospective/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

Parse launches premium feature: end-user branding

http://blog.parse.com/2012/05/07/express-your-brand-with-parse/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments
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