top 50% 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

Twitter Open Sourced Reputation System Gem for ActiveRecord

https://github.com/twitter/activerecord-reputation-system

14 years ago

★ 1.3k Ruby Apache-2.0
102 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Organized Wonder

http://www.organizedwonder.com/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue

http://blog.safeshepherd.com/post/23218902229/google-just-nerfed-us-a-venture-backed-startup

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 77 comments

Your startup’s top priorities.

http://tomasztunguz.com/2012/05/17/your-startups-top-3-priorities/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Open Source Guitar Effects Pedal

http://www.openstomp.com

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Real Shadow: jQuery Plugin that casts photorealistic shadows

http://indamix.github.com/real-shadow/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/05/17/perlas-prediction-holds-true-facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 82 comments

50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/14/152671813/50-years-of-government-spending-in-1-graph

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 71 comments

On Counter Offers

http://jasonpunyon.github.com/blog/2012/05/17/on-counter-offers/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

List of emerging technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

'Private' social network Everyme (YC S11) takes on Facebook

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/05/private-social-network-everyme-takes-on-facebook/1

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Pivots are a Trap

http://blog.thirdyearmba.com/pivots-kill

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

How I Open Source

http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/05/how-i-open-source.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Jython 2.7 alpha1 released

http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2012/05/jython-27-alpha1-released.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

WebSockets with Varnish and Nginx

http://thruflo.com/post/23226473852/websockets-varnish-nginx

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

How we rewrote the Kicksend web app in one month: tips & tricks

http://blog.kicksend.com/how-we-rewrote-the-kicksend-web-app-in-one-month

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Hewlett-Packard to Cut About 30,000 Jobs (9% of workforce)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/technology/hewlett-packard-plans-job-cutbacks.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Travis needs your help

https://love.travis-ci.org

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Code For America opens its Git Basics skillshare

https://github.com/codeforamerica/skillshares/tree/master/git_basics

14 years ago

★ 191 Python
63 upvotes – 3 comments

The Tilde is an Amazing CSS Selector

http://nicholsonws.com/archive/the-tilde-is-an-amazing-css-selector

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Read

http://www.tracelytics.com/blog/the-devops-reading-list-10-books-blogs-you-should-be-reading/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Presenteer.js: Flexible HTML5 presentation tool

http://willemmulder.github.com/Presenteer.js/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Internet of Things startup: electric imp

http://electricimp.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Linux Mint 13 "Maya" RC released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2010

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

The Fast Track to Start-Up Life

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-fast-track-to-start-up-life.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

The Great search for Analytics services

http://blog.coredumped.org/2012/05/great-search-for-analytics-services.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Crowdtilt (YC W12) raises $2.1M

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/17/kickstarter-for-groups-and-events-yc-alum-crowdtilt-picks-up-2-1m-from-sv-angel-yc-partners-and-more/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Jobs vs Passive Income

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2012/05/jobs-vs-passive-income/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments

Knitting as programming

http://infotrope.net/2012/05/16/knitting-as-programming/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

FB stock priced at $38/share on Thursday, raises $18.4 billion

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577409923406193162.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 47 comments

$74 MK802 Android micro-PC take on the Cotton Candy, RasPi

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/74-mk802-android-micro-pc-beats-cotton-candy-to-the-punch-20120517/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

Twitter is tracking you on the web

http://dcurt.is/twitter-is-tracking-you-on-the-web

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Postmates Debuts ‘Get It Now’ On-Demand Courier Service To The Public

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/17/postmates-debuts-get-it-now-on-demand-courier-service-to-the-public/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 17 comments
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