top 50% 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

The Dictator's practical Internet guide to power retention

http://pwd.io/guide/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/14/refer-ly-lets-regular-folks-earn-affiliate-revenue-for-recommending-products-they-love/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 60 comments

Easel.ly - A nice HTML 5 infographics editor

http://www.easel.ly

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 58 comments

Chrome supports TCP & UDP sockets

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/chrome-tcp-udp

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

The average Greek is working a full 40% longer than the average German

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17155304

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 144 comments

git playback

http://codingfearlessly.com/2012/05/14/git-playback/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

GPU accelerated arrays for Haskell

http://justtesting.org/gpu-accelerated-array-computations-in-haskell

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 5 comments

London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/13/3018101/london-traffic-lights-rigged-to-win-international-olympic-committees

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 94 comments

Giving.github.com

http://giving.github.com/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

Peter Thiel's unexpected job requirement

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/14/peter-thiels-unexpected-job-requirement/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/12/3016254/russian-satellite-earth-from-space-121-megapixels

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Xkcd: "Kickstarter"

https://xkcd.com/1055/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Quora raises $50M at a $400M valuation with Peter Thiel leading

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577404510443769988.html?mod=wsj_nview_latest

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

A core Python committer's (very shallow) thoughts on Dart

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-very-shallow-thoughts-on-dart.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Using A Slime-Mold To Calculate Minimum Spanning Trees

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/the-wisdom-of-slime.html?_r=1

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?

http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/05/14/how-fast-are-jvm-based-languages-growing-among-developers/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusEtAl-Preliminary%20Report-1954.pdf

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Coronal mass ejection from monster sunspot AR 1476 due May 14

http://earthsky.org/space/huge-sunspot-ar1476-turned-our-way-might-produce-x-flare

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Pykka - Actors For Python

http://pykka.readthedocs.org/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

How To Raise A $1M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/13/how-to-raise-1m-seed-round/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Think Twice Before Starting A Company

http://robgo.org/2012/05/14/think-twice-before-starting-a-company/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: c

https://github.com/Jonovono/C

14 years ago

★ 91 Shell
54 upvotes – 60 comments

Cloudfuji (YC S11) Launches Open-Source, Instant-Setup Fat Free CRM

http://cloudfuji.com/blog/2012/05/14/cloudfuji_launches_open_source_instant_setup_fat_free_crm.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

LLVM Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-09/open_source_compiler_adds_support_for_nvidia_gpus.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments
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