top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-16

Please learn to write

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/05/16/please_learn_to_write.html

14 years ago

516 upvotes – 117 comments

Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle

https://plus.google.com/110412141990454266397/posts/fk5VXPpiQZR

14 years ago

494 upvotes – 112 comments

Pretty RFC

http://pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com/

14 years ago

453 upvotes – 72 comments

Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs

http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/

14 years ago

315 upvotes – 59 comments

Google's Code Editor

https://docs.google.com/macros

14 years ago

303 upvotes – 85 comments

Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 139 comments

The Bastards Book of Ruby

http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 36 comments

The First Time I Used Programming At Work

http://justinkan.com/2012/5/15/the-first-time-i-used-programming-at-work

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 85 comments

The 10k Bootstrap Challenge

http://bootstrapchallenge.com/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 78 comments

Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality

http://nationaljournal.com/features/restoration-calls/too-hot-for-ted-income-inequality-20120516

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 223 comments

Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=316575021742112#How-do-I-know-if-a-friend-has-seen-a-message-I-sent?

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 120 comments

Goodbye, MongoDB

http://www.zopyx.de/blog/goodbye-mongodb

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 122 comments

Europe's Square

http://www.izettle.com/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 100 comments

Multiple Django and Flask Sites with Nginx and uWSGI Emperor

http://tghw.com/blog/multiple-django-and-flask-sites-with-nginx-and-uwsgi-emperor

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 68 comments

To boldly go where Node man has gone before

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/05/to-boldly-go-where-node-man-has-gone.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 115 comments

Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site

http://swapped.cc/blog/google-bot

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 30 comments

How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists'

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How'd They Do?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/16/152736597/pizza-delicious-bought-an-ad-on-facebook-howd-they-do

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 76 comments

The love and hate of Node.js

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/05/love-and-hate-of-nodejs.html

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

Why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance.

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/05/if-all-these-new-dbms-technologies-are.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Say hello to the real real-time Web

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/say-hello-to-the-real-real-time-web/?1

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Kicksend (YC S11) goes free. Send unlimited files to anyone.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/15/kicksend

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

How I Went From 0 to $50k on the App Store(s)

http://www.entrelife.com/2012/05/how-i-went-from-0-to-50k-on-app-stores.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Online algorithmic event detection from realtime mobile photos

http://detectd.teleportd.com

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Comparing quality of films in the iTunes & Netflix libraries

http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2012/05/16/netflix-vs-itunes-for-movies-youd-actually-watch/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

How to build a location-based hybrid mobile app with reverse geocoding

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/05/15/how-to-build-a-location-based-hybrid-mobile-app-with-reverse-geocoding/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 7 comments

Emacsy, an embeddable Emacs

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/568774734/emacsy-an-embeddable-emacs

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Is there a point to paginating articles online?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/21375/is-there-a-point-to-paginating-articles-online

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Shout Out to the Server Teams

http://stevestreza.com/2012/05/16/shout-out-to-the-server-teams/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Paris & Berlin – The tale of two cities (Part 1: The facts you can’t ignore)

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/05/15/paris-v-berlin-the-facts/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

On June 6th, World IPv6 Launch Will Change The World Forever

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2012/05/on-june-6th-world-ipv6-launch-will-change-the-world-forever/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Changes Tack on Android

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304371504577406511931421118-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNTExNDUyWj.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

Where the fuck should I eat

http://wherethefuckshouldigotoeat.com/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

WebP2P - New Peer to Peer Technology on the Web

http://gun.io/blog/webp2p-new-peer-to-peer-technology-on-the-web/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Worst VC Firms' Websites

http://bernardi.me/2012/05/worst-venture-capital-firms-websites/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little)

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/05/16/why-i-taught-my-daughter-to-code-a-little.aspx

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

.Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-domains-now-available-through-opennic-120515/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Half of Americans think Facebook is a fad

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/tech/facebook-passing-fad-survey/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

http://lintool.github.com/MapReduceAlgorithms/index.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Mobile and Tablet: Introducing the Knowledge Graph

http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/knowledge-graph-for-mobile-and-tablet.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

How DNA Site 23andMe Outed Parents Who Gave Up Their First Baby

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/05/16/dna-site-23andme-outed-parents-who-gave-their-first-baby-up-for-adoption/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard

http://recursive-design.com/blog/2012/05/16/underscores-are-stupid-get-a-japanese-keyboard/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

Chrome 19 update breaks secure WebSockets

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128339

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments
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