top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-26

Getty's New Watermark

http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative/Frontdoor/NewWatermark

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 143 comments

Germany sets new solar-power record

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 219 comments

The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/bookauth/battle/fussell.htm

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 78 comments

Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120521/13194719006/apple-microsoft-behind-patent-troll-armed-with-thousands-nortel-patents.shtml

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 88 comments

The Shapes of CSS

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 33 comments

Learn R two minutes at a time

http://www.twotorials.com/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 38 comments

MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/25/153697885/mit-builds-a-needle-free-drug-injector

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 41 comments

Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)

http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/guide_international_gateway.htm

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 64 comments

The "bat signal" for the Internet

http://internetdefenseleague.org/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 21 comments

If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/aaker_happiness_2011.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Don't use Scatterplots

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/dont_use_scatterplots.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Elon Musk's determination

http://dcurt.is/elon-musks-determination

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 37 comments

Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

http://www.eveonline.com/universe/spaceships/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/spacex-the-apple-of-spacefligh.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Bitcoinica lost customer database, has no up to date record of trading balances

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81045.msg921245#msg921245

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 125 comments

Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/meth-labs-and-dead-dogs-how-the-founder-of-mcafee-antivirus-went-on-the-run-in-belize/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

https://github.com/louissobel/Drapache

14 years ago

★ 199 Python MIT
98 upvotes – 31 comments

Favicons Next To External Links

http://css-tricks.com/favicons-next-to-external-links/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Snaketron, online multiplayer Snake

http://snaketron.com

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Iterated prisoner's dilemma contains evolutionary opponent dominating strategies

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/16/1206569109.full.pdf+html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23787022006/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-14-notes-essay

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Anonymous hacks RCom servers, warns Indian government against web censorship

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Anonymous-hacks-RCom-servers-warns-govt-against-web-censorship/articleshow/13526067.cms

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Portal game in CoffeeScript

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2012/05/game-stick-portal.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

The Experience Economy

http://cdixon.org/2012/05/26/the-experience-economy/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

A small fast and cute web framework in Python.

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

http://lifehacker.com/5913355/how-can-i-turn-small-talk-into-a-conversation

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Back of the Envelope [Physics] Problems

http://ajp.dickinson.edu/Readers/backEnv.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV

http://www.smartjava.org/content/face-detection-using-html5-javascript-webrtc-websockets-jetty-and-javacvopencv

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention

http://www.fastcompany.com/1837966/mustafas-space-drive-an-egyptian-students-quantum-physics-invention

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027461

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 49 comments
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