top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-19

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 158 comments

Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 167 comments

A few things to remember while coding in Python

http://satyajit.ranjeev.in/2012/05/17/python-a-few-things-to-remember.html

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask HN: Favorite HN threads of all time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 51 comments

We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines

http://prog21.dadgum.com/139.html

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 87 comments

Morgan Stanley bought 63M Facebook shares ($2.3B) to create a floor around $38

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE84I01620120519

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 60 comments

High-dimensional spheres are "spikey"

http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/PvsNP.py?SpikeySpheres#HN2

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 59 comments

SpaceX ISS launch webcast starts at 4:15 am EDT

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/18/the-story-of-the-secret-room-at-pixar-frequented-by-steve-jobs-and-many-other-celebrities/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 22 comments

The default state of a startup is failure

http://cdixon.org/2012/05/18/the-default-state-of-a-startup-is-failure/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

http://dailydo.it/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 56 comments

React is a PHP port of NodeJs non-blocking I/O platform

http://nodephp.org/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 111 comments

Assange stands 'real chance' of election in Australia

http://www.france24.com/en/20120519-assange-stands-real-chance-election-australia

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Some quick Django optimisation lessons

http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/some-quick-django-optimisation-lessons/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Test-Driven Django Tutorial

http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Try PTMono, a beautiful monospace font that looks like serif

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/PT+Mono

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Dumb Like Me: A Year Low On Oxygen

http://datasyndrome.com/post/23339122301/dumb-like-me

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

SpaceX Rocket launch aborted in final second due to technical problems

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/spacex-rocket-launch-aborted-final-liftoff-due-technical-16384466#.T7dh6HkthOE

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/eureka-when-a-blow-to-the-head-creates-a-sudden-genius/257282/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Why HTML5 is the best platform for rapid game development

http://austinhallock.com/2012/05/19/html5-the-best-platform-for-rapid-game-development/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

African child mortality: The best story in development

http://www.economist.com/node/21555571

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

The Eternal Lorem Ipsum

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/the-eternal-lorem-ipsum.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Defer Haskell type errors to runtime: new GHC 7.6 developers' flag

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DeferErrorsToRuntime

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

Korean and Russian scientists plan to clone woolly mammoth

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-skorean-russian-scientists-clone-mammoth.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

How to Not Kill a Cyclist

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/how-to-not-kill-a-cyclist

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 105 comments

Redundant Array of Independent Clouds

https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN31.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Road to the Python Commit Bit

http://hynek.me/articles/my-road-to-the-python-commit-bit/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

The Inferno Shell, an Introduction with Examples

http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-1-shell

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-233992.aspx

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments
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