top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-17

TED and inequality: The real story

http://tedchris.posterous.com/131417405

14 years ago

471 upvotes – 196 comments

It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

http://edweissman.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code

14 years ago

457 upvotes – 231 comments

The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/17/business/dealbook/how-the-facebook-offering-compares.html

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 83 comments

All the oxygen trapped in a bubble

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3177-all-the-oxygen-trapped-in-a-bubble

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 120 comments

Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

http://www.indiancustomers.in/vimeo-dailymotion-pastebin-331.html

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 107 comments

50 Years Ago: The World in 1962

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1962/100296/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 130 comments

The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You

http://roundtable.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/the-inequality-speech-that-ted-wont-show-you.php

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 103 comments

CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3

http://csshat.com/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 75 comments

Smart people don't think others are stupid

http://sivers.org/ss

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 123 comments

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#src=hn

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 30 comments

SASS vs. LESS

http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/thoughts-control-robotic-arm/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 33 comments

Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/meet-the-worst-8th-grade-math-teacher-in-nyc/2012/05/15/gIQArmlbSU_blog.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 152 comments

Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

http://allthingsd.com/20120516/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race/?mod=tweet

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 124 comments

Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 54 comments

Rails Console Tips

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3176-three-quick-rails-console-tips

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 4 comments

Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?revision=35672&view=revision

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 72 comments

Upcoming SPDY support details

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?29,226562

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 26 comments

Candy Japan April Income Report

http://www.candyjapan.com/april-profit-report

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 78 comments

Preventing Site Scraping

http://www.techjunkie.com/preventing-site-scraping/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments
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