top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-18

Light Table is in YCS12

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/17/light-table-is-in-yc/

14 years ago

401 upvotes – 96 comments

SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/spacex_update_staticfiring.html

14 years ago

386 upvotes – 79 comments

NASDAQ:FB

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB

14 years ago

303 upvotes – 295 comments

Recording police with your smartphone is a Constitutional right, says DoJ

http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/recording-police-is-a-constitutional-right-says-doj/

14 years ago

302 upvotes – 63 comments

Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

http://sef.kloninger.com/2012/05/engineering-culture-litmus-tests/

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 241 comments

Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company

http://smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com/post/23291496479/avoiding-depression-while-not-running-a-1b-company

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 98 comments

Objectivist C

http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 73 comments

'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave'

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/the-golden-age-of-silicon-valley-is-over-and-were-dancing-on-its-grave/257401/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 145 comments

Gödel and the limits of logic

http://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 76 comments

I found that the company I work for is putting backdoor into mobile phones

http://security.stackexchange.com/q/15076/1061

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online

http://mashable.com/2012/05/17/teachers-pay-teachers/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 82 comments

RIP Jim Gray - Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/closure-in-disappearance-of-computer-scientist-jim-gray/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 13 comments

Facebook buys Karma

http://blog.getkarma.com/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 52 comments

My Biggest Temptation

http://ryanleecarson.tumblr.com/post/23284176896/temptation

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

Atlas: A Human-Powered Helicopter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1156290643/atlas-a-human-powered-helicopter-for-a-historical

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/18/how-facebook-hacked-the-nasdaq-button/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Tossing Out IRB for Pry

http://www.philaquilina.com/2012/05/17/tossing-out-irb-for-pry/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

DDG now searches HN for stories and comments

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+duckduckgo

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/18/quick-course-on-effective-website-copywriting/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/18/the-talk-show

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 157 comments

Why Did Zynga Tank After Facebook IPOed?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/why-did-zynga-drop-after-facebooks-ipo/257395/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-starts-at-40-in-debut-then-fizzles-2012-05-18?dist=afterbell

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 98 comments

A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/rob-carrick/a-29-year-old-on-the-difficulties-of-landing-a-first-job/article2434807/singlepage/#articlecontent

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 139 comments

Carmageddon seeks Kickstarter cash comeback

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18009412

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Reticent rich: Preferred style in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/technology/a-start-up-is-gold-for-facebooks-new-millionaires.html?hpw&pagewanted=print

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

Nginx 1.3.0 is out

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES#1.3.0

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Starting Referly (YC S12) Took Me Three Years

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2012/05/starting-referly-took-me-three-years/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Make your website super fast with Asset Pipeline, Sprites & Cloudfront

http://blog.railsonfire.com/2012/05/18/Assets-Sprites-CDN.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Buffett to buy 63 newspapers

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120517/NEWS01/120519629#buffett-to-buy-63-newspapers

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: HTML5 Piano - with its own data URI synth

http://mrcoles.com/piano/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Memristors in silicon promising for dense, fast memory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18103772

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Expanded ActiveRecord Support for PostgreSQL Datatypes

http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/ruby/2012/05/18/rails-4-sneak-peek-expanded-activerecord-support-for-postgresql-datatype.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

A "small-time investor"

http://diegobasch.com/im-a-small-time-investor

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook’s Debut Marred by Trading Glitches

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebooks-debut-marred-by-trading-glitches/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Microsoft unveils sandbox boundaries for Windows 8/Metro developers

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/17/delivering-reliable-and-trustworthy-metro-style-apps.aspx

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Turkey kills school books, moves to tablet in all schools

http://fatihprojesi.meb.gov.tr/tr/duyuruincele.php?id=17

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

25 petabytes bringing storage firm, court case to the brink of collapse

http://aceds.org/news/25-million-gigabytes-brings-prosecution-megaupload-and-its-eccentric-founder-standstill

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/how-across-the-roman-empire-in-real-time-with-orbis/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

A New Take On Responsive Tables

http://www.zurb.com/article/982/a-new-take-on-responsive-tables

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 6 comments

High-risk video game venture has Rhode Island, Curt Schilling reeling

http://boston.com/business/technology/articles/2012/05/18/high_risk_video_game_venture_has_rhode_island_curt_schilling_reeling/?page=full

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 28 comments
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