top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-22

Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays

http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2012/05/engineeringinfrastructures/

14 years ago

475 upvotes – 143 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?hn=1

14 years ago

370 upvotes – 206 comments

The future is specific

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/21/the-future-is-specific/

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 135 comments

Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car

http://hackaday.com/2012/05/21/man-stranded-in-the-desert-makes-a-motorcycle-from-his-broken-car/

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 100 comments

WebGL: 80,000 particles

http://minimal.be/lab/fluGL/

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 82 comments

Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

http://grist.org/list/nine-year-olds-lunch-blog-shames-school-into-making-changes/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 133 comments

A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1)

http://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1.html

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 78 comments

Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-bankers-secretly-cut-facebook-revenue-estimates-middle-133648905.html

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 88 comments

Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/weve-acquired-motorola-mobility.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 139 comments

Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-a-round-from-andreessen-horowitz/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee

http://www.coderscoffee.com/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 100 comments

California Senate votes to allow self-driving cars

http://www.mercurynews.com/cars/ci_20675377/california-senate-votes-allow-self-driving-cars

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 105 comments

VIA launches $49 Android PC

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/via-launch-a-49-android-pc-20120522/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 106 comments

A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity With Signed Commits

http://mikegerwitz.com/docs/git-horror-story.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

SpaceX Launches Capsule on Historic Space Station Trip

http://www.space.com/15805-spacex-private-capsule-launches-space-station.html

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 11 comments

Of abusive behavior in programming communities

http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1959

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 73 comments

Open-sourcing Stylo

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/stylo

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 28 comments

Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 trillion USD

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 123 comments

Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination

http://allthingsd.com/20120522/kleiner-perkins-partner-ellen-pao-sues-firm-for-gender-discrimination-over-sexual-harassment/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 96 comments

Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous

http://io9.com/5911860/illusion-tricks-you-into-thinking-these-celebrities-are-downright-hideous

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments
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