top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-29

Hunting Down My Son's Killer

http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/

14 years ago

1139 upvotes – 318 comments

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

14 years ago

989 upvotes – 147 comments

Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-hashing-algorithm-is-best-for-uniqueness-and-speed/145633#145633

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 104 comments

Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 56 comments

Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website

http://www.smore.com/clippy-js

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 58 comments

Why cheap customers cost more

http://sachagreif.com/why-cheap-customers-cost-more/

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/05/lit-motors-c1/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 159 comments

Why I Use Perl: Reliability

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/05/why-i-use-perl-reliability.html

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 193 comments

Screw the power users

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/screw-the-power-users.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 84 comments

CryEngine 3 soft-body physics simulator

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/cryengine-3-gets-awesome-soft-body-physics-simulator-20120529/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 70 comments

Stripe open-sources Einhorn

https://stripe.com/blog/meet-einhorn

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

The Design of LLVM

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240001128

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/apples-crystal-prison-and-future-open-platforms

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt&sub=HN0

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 34 comments

How to overcome “years of experience” requirements when applying for jobs

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1478/906

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 73 comments

Facebook trades under $30, down 7%+

http://www.google.com/finance?q=fb&safe=active

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 159 comments

SLR Camera Simulator

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 69 comments

With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream

http://gigaom.com/cloud/with-42m-more-10gen-wants-to-take-mongodb-mainstream/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Our experience using Clojure to speed up Beanstalk

http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/23998022427/beanstalk-clojure-love-and-20x-better-performance

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 70 comments

Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

How to hire a lot of talented people, very quickly

http://ryanleecarson.tumblr.com/post/23990414000/how-to-hire-a-lot-of-talented-people-very-quickly

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Peter Thiel's Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

Google announces next Chromebooks and a Chromebox (desktop replacement)

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-step-in-chrome-os-journey.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 113 comments

Fedora 17 Released

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Why I Hate Test Driven Development

http://www.robg3d.com/?p=949

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

False Cognates and Syntax: The Importance of Syntax in Programming Languages

http://www.txt.io/t-2eewd

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

Zillow, ex-MS, Pure Networks, Cisco hacker killed by random bullet in Seattle

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018285764_shooting26m.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

Face opera

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/05/face_opera.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 112 comments

Loop: a programming language for the JVM inspired by Haskell and Ruby

http://looplang.org

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

Couch hacking - A proof of Ikea's excellence

http://www.lengrand.fr/2012/05/design-innovation-and-hacking-in-a-couch/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Kalzumeus (patio11) Podcast Ep. 2 with Amy Hoy: Pricing, Products, And Passion

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/18/kalzumeus-podcast-ep-2-with-amy-hoy-pricing-products-and-passion/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook Advertising is Fool's Gold

http://behindcompanies.com/2012/05/facebook-fools-gold/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 72 comments

Why I will not negotiate with you about cost

http://erronis.nl/2012/05/25/why-i-will-not-negotiate-with-you-about-cost/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 51 comments

Museum of Endangered Sounds

http://savethesounds.info/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

Stuck due to “knowing too much”

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/150549/17163

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 107 comments

Rbutr: a browser extension that finds rebuttals to web pages you're reading

http://rbutr.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

Charity asked to pay just to link to newspaper websites

http://faduda.ie/200-words/charity-asked-to-pay-for-links-to-newspaper-websites

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

Pure Go implementation of D. J. Bernstein's cdb constant database library

https://github.com/jbarham/go-cdb

14 years ago

★ 232 Go BSD-2-Clause
65 upvotes – 19 comments

Bitly Goes Beyond Link Shortening, But Users Not Amused

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/29/bitly-update-user-reaction/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

The Universal Standard Library

http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/universal-standard-library.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Author John Birmingham on eBook Piracy

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/avast-ye-scurvy-dogs-here-be-my-answer-to-piracy-20120528-1zegt.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Lib-Ray: Non-DRM Open-Standards HD Video Format

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144275086/lib-ray-non-drm-open-standards-hd-video-format

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Matt Mullenweg: I’m Worried That Silicon Valley Might Be Destroying the World

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/24/matt-mullenweg-im-worried-that-silicon-valley-might-be-destroying-the-world/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

Next step in the Chrome OS journey

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-step-in-chrome-os-journey.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Build your first iOS Game: Simple space invaders on github

https://github.com/richy486/InvaderR#readme

14 years ago

★ 205 Objective-C++ MIT
59 upvotes – 7 comments

3 part series on HTML5 game development tips

http://blog.clay.io/tag/html5-game-development-tips

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

Improving Performance on Twitter.com

http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance-on-twittercom.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments
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