top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-24

Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL

http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-squatted-at-aol/

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 198 comments

After Facebook fails

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2012/05/23/after-facebook-fails/

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 202 comments

Most popular browser missing (Chrome)...

http://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 115 comments

Hello Downloader

http://www.alphabasic.com/Please_read.html

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 162 comments

API Design - Matt Gemmell

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/05/24/api-design/

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 26 comments

So you are making good money, now STFU

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/So+you+are+making+good+money+now+STFU

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 113 comments

How Tim Cook is changing Apple

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/24/apple-tim-cook-ceo/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 107 comments

Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator of Pandas)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 57 comments

Pipe Viewer

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 26 comments

Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store

http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2012/05/24/apple-has-removed-airfoil-speakers-touch-from-the-ios-app-store/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 165 comments

Yahoo Axis Chrome Extension Leaks Private Certificate File

http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/yahoo-axis-chrome-extension-leaks-private-certificate-file

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

Require free access to scientific articles based on taxpayer-funded research.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How do you stay productive after work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018274

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 88 comments

Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge

http://coding.scribd.com/2012/05/24/compete-against-our-developers/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 107 comments

Introducing Facebook Camera

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/Introducing-Facebook-Camera-170.aspx

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 130 comments

Piccsy Pitchdeck

http://piccsy.com/investors/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks

https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_simple_and_Sophisticated_Attacks

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

GCC Explorer

http://xania.org/201205/gcc-explorer

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 16 comments

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/no-cost-desktop-software-development-is-dead-on-windows-8

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 187 comments

Kickstarter hides failure

http://misener.org/archives/1354

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 84 comments

Old Farts Know How to Code

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/old-farts-know-how-to-code.html

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

Miles per Gallon versus Liters per 100 Kilometers

http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/05/24/mpg-vs-l100km/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 87 comments

Github: CoffeeScript cracks the top 10 languages

https://github.com/languages

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/10-books-every-entrepreneur-should-read/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

Facebook Shows There's a Sucker Born Every Minute

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304065704577422643666002940.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Xbox 360 Should Be Banned from U.S. for Violating Patents, Judge Says

http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/xbox-360-should-be-banned-from-u-s-over-patents-judge-says/?iid=tl-article-mostpop1

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

https://github.com/ozten/TLD.js

14 years ago

★ 340 HTML
97 upvotes – 83 comments

Scaling Riak at Kiip

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/05/25/Scaling-Riak-At-Kiip/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

First Retire... Then Get Rich

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/14/first-retire-then-get-rich/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 106 comments

Google: Transparency for copyright removals in search

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/transparency-for-copyright-removals-in.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Yahoo included their private certificate in Axis

https://github.com/nikcub/yahoo-spoof

14 years ago

★ 40 JavaScript
79 upvotes – 16 comments

Hackasaurus

http://www.hackasaurus.org/en-US/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Protecting My Copyright

http://www.baldheretic.com/2012/05/23/protecting-my-copyright

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 86 comments

Developers: How to get Hired by Every Startup You Contact

http://3degreesnation.tumblr.com/post/23655371280/hey-developers-heres-how-to-get-hired-by-every

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 48 comments

A new organ discovered in baleen whales

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/a-new-organ-discovered-in-baleen-whales/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

Hacker News clone for CouchDB

http://www.hckr.it/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

How to make a Big Red Button, complete with Python libusb code

http://blog.metricfire.com/2012/05/building-the-big-red-button/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

The Art of Stealth Studying: How To Earn a 4.0 With Only 1.0 Hours of Work

http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/03/the-art-of-stealth-studying-how-to-earn-a-40-with-only-10-hours-of-work/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

After the age of scarcity

http://ignoredbydinosaurs.com/2012/05/after-age-scarcity

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

Engelbart's Violin - chorded keyboards

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

On software communities, "Rock star" programmers, and... Linus

http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=15

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Functional programming in sh

http://quasimal.com/posts/2012-05-21-funsh.html?utm_source=Coder+Weekly&utm_campaign=a6889de9de-Coder_Weekly_Issue_17&utm_medium=email

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Smart Working at Credit Suisse - 2000 workspaces for 2500 employees

http://www.officesnapshots.com/2012/02/10/credit-suisses-zurich-offices-smart-working-concept-office/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

SpaceX/ISS fly-under, coverage starts at 11:30 pm PDT

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 58 comments

The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)

http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 76 comments

Just say "No" [to Yahoo Axis]

http://dcurt.is/axis

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments
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