top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-14

Plagiarism

http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/23049725899/plagiarism

14 years ago

1230 upvotes – 311 comments

Welcome To Life

http://www.tomscott.com/life/

14 years ago

545 upvotes – 183 comments

The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 292 comments

VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/stats/downloads.html

14 years ago

321 upvotes – 105 comments

Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails

http://blog.targeterapp.com/post/22984987832/why-we-moved-from-nodejs-to-ror

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 159 comments

We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review

http://www.pskl.us/wp/?p=722

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 81 comments

Perian is shutting down

http://perian.org/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 63 comments

Turn anything into a videogame controller, even a banana

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-invention-kit-for-everyone

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 25 comments

Wozniak calls for open Apple

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/300704,wozniak-calls-for-open-apple.aspx

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 149 comments

How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup

http://www.tested.com/videos/44220-how-pixar-almost-lost-toy-story-2-to-a-bad-backup/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 75 comments

Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971212

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 130 comments

Python Web Programming

http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/howto/webservers.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard

http://tympanus.net/Development/FlipboardPageLayout/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2755/why-can-you-turn-clothing-right-side-out

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

Are Stanford Students Just (Really Excellent) Sheep?

http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2011/03/24/are-stanford-students-just-really-excellent-sheep/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 167 comments

Schemaverse: MMO entirely in Postgres

http://schemaverse.com

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump

http://devblog.bu.mp/from-mongodb-to-riak

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 131 comments

Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript

http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/index

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/amazon-cloudfront-support-for-dynamic-content.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

(Some) ORM haters do get it

http://www.revision-zero.org/orm-haters-do-get-it

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 105 comments
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