top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-25

Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18195772

14 years ago

585 upvotes – 166 comments

I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000

http://www.impactdialing.com/2012/05/how-to-sue-a-telemarketer/

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 145 comments

Rick Santorum's Fake Donation Meter

https://www.ricksantorum.com/stillneedhelp/thermometer.js

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 93 comments

Virtualenv to be part of Python 3.3

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119668.html

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 58 comments

Github: United States Code

https://github.com/divegeek/uscode

14 years ago

★ 890 Python
222 upvotes – 54 comments

Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18202702

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 98 comments

Reddit founder aims to build bat signal for the Internet

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/25/reddit-founder-and-activists-aim-to-build-a-bat-signal-for-the-internet/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 62 comments

Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120524/18190719071/odd-that-microsoft-demands-google-take-down-links-that-remain-bing.shtml

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 69 comments

Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts

http://www.springwise.com/retail/seoul-retailer-3d-qr-codes-sun-deliver-discounts-quiet-times/

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 45 comments

The Art of Computer Typography

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3183-the-art-of-computer-typography

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 25 comments

So You Want to be a Programmer

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/so-you-want-to-be-a-programmer.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 94 comments

Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 149 comments

Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 137 comments

Responsive Typography

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

Dr. Koop and The Bubble

http://dcurt.is/the-bubble

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack

http://www.mikkolehtinen.com/blog/2012/05/25/rewindy-tech-stack/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook’s stock should trade for $13.80

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-stock-should-trade-for-1380-2012-05-25

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 105 comments

Serious high-performance and lock-free algorithms (by LMAX devs)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lock-free-Algorithms#HN2

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Who is using Go language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025198

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Stallion - Python Package Manager

http://perone.github.com/stallion/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

VM export for EC2

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/vm-export-for-ec2.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Elixir v0.5.0 released

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2012/05/25/elixir-v0-5-0-released/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft Pulling Free Development Tools for Windows 8 Desktop Apps

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/microsoft-pulling-free-development-tools-for-windows-8-desktop-apps/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 78 comments

Google removed 1m DMCA links last month, 540,000 at the behest of Microsoft

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-infringing-link-removal/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

JavaScript Library for Objective Sound Programming

http://mohayonao.github.com/timbre/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook insiders sold 57% of their shares on Friday

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/05/25/ceo-gaffe-of-the-week-facebook-nasdaq-and-morgan-.aspx

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

Docking standard for the International Space Station

http://internationaldockingstandard.com/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Yahoo Axis

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-axis-a-search-browser/id506520874?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Towel Day - Don't forget your towel

http://towelday.org/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Eliciting emotion

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/eliciting-emotion.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem

http://habilis.net/cronic/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments

Battle.net authentication misconceptions

http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/2012/battle-net-authentication-misconceptions

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 36 comments

The CS6 Desktop Brand System

http://blogs.adobe.com/brandexperience/2012/05/16/the-cs6-desktop-brand-system/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Gistlicious, hot or not for code

http://gistlicious.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Exec (YC W12) raises $3.3M

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/25/exec-the-yc-backed-mobile-app-for-instantly-doing-your-errands-raises-3-3m/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

DuckDuckGo Cooks Google's Goose

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11550975/1/the-digital-skeptic-duckduckgo-cooks-googles-goose.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 84 comments

Buffett: Free news unsustainable

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/buffett-says-free-news-unsustainable-may-add-more-papers.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

Unix doesn’t follow the Unix philosophy

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/05/25/unix-doesnt-follow-the-unix-philosophy/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 73 comments

Team behind webOS Enyo framework reportedly leaving HP to join Google

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/team-behind-webos-enyo-framework-reportedly-leaving-hp-and-joining-google/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

PIPA Co-Sponsor Admits Bill Went Too Far (His Son Told Him)

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PIPA-SOPA-Justin-Bieber-Chris-Coons-Chris-Nodd,news-15359.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

My first C program: simple process supervisor like daemontools/runit in 359 LoC

http://uggedal.github.com/going/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 44 comments

What You Need to Know about SEO

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/what-you-need-to-know-about-seo/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/africa-developing-its-first-supercomputer-outside-south-africa/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments
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