top 50% 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

Dokuen - A Personal Heroku

https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen

14 years ago

★ 548 Ruby
113 upvotes – 13 comments

JRuby Core Team Members Moving to Red Hat

http://www.rubyinside.com/jruby-redhat-5856.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 4 comments

Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

http://anonnews.org/press/item/1521/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc

http://haufler.org/2012/05/22/interviewing-at-google-facebook-foursquare-dropbox-fog-creek-etc/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 119 comments

Facebook shares hit again as valuation doubts rise

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-usa-markets-facebook-idUSBRE84L0PE20120522

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

http://sachagreif.com/the-toolbox-from-idea-to-launch-in-10-hours/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: shortcutFoo is an effective way to learn shortcuts (Vim, TextMate, etc)

https://www.shortcutfoo.com

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/androids-overblown-fragmentation-problem.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 79 comments

Firebase (YC S11) Raises $1.1M For Real-Time App Infrastructure

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/firebase-funding/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Real World Clojure

http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/10/20/real-world-clojure/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~zhiyunq/tcp_sequence_number_inference/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

Joining a startup: high salary, no equity OR "startup salary" with equity?

http://watilo.com/joining-a-startup-high-salary-no-equity-or-st

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Bitbucket Cards

http://www.bitbucketcards.com/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Don't destroy research

http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/rothamsted-appeal.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

The Facebook Fallacy - Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40437/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 62 comments

The Unabomber's Pen Pal

http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Unabombers-Pen-Pal/131892/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

The Next Y Combinator Class Will Be 80 Strong

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/ycombinator-80-strong/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

$100k of FPGAs, Mining Bitcoins at 110 Ghash/sec

http://bitfury.org/bitfury110.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

Larry Page: “We’re still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/larry-page-on-charlie-rose-were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-unlock-user-data/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 81 comments

Confirmed: SpaceX Dragon Ferried ‘Scotty’s’ Remains Into Space

http://mashable.com/2012/05/22/spacex-dragon-scotty/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Inventor of Google Voice now reinventing conference calls

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/inventor-of-google-voice-now-reinventing-conference-calls/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

New Heroku Status Site

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/5/22/new_heroku_status_site/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Students Learn as Well from Software as from Live Teachers

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/22/report-robots-stack-human-professors-teaching-intro-stats

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Introducing Live for RubyMotion

http://irrationalfab.github.com/blog/2012/05/22/introducing-live-for-rubymotion/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Josh Wills of Cloudera, on Growing Data Scientists

https://www.airbnb.com/meetups/4xphza94s-tech-talk-josh-wills

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Tipping doesn't make any sense

http://bernardi.me/2012/05/tipping-doesnt-make-any-sense/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: libsaas, it's libcloud for SaaS

http://libsaas.net

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn Lua the Hard Way

http://www.phailed.me/2011/02/learn-lua-the-hard-way-1/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of the Times?

http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 55 comments
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