top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-30

The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images

http://www.robinsloan.com/note/pictures-and-vision/index.html

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 251 comments

Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites

http://blog.parse.com/2012/05/30/parse-launches-javascript-sdk%3A-parse-for-websites/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 104 comments

Seriously? Ads?

http://blog.dinkevich.com/seriously-ads/

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 212 comments

Dutch parliament rejects ACTA, prohibits government to sign or ratify.

https://www.bof.nl/2012/05/29/translations-of-dutch-parliamentary-resolutions-against-acta/

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 49 comments

How To Do A Startup On The Side And Not Lose Your Family

http://ericfarkas.com/posts/how-to-do-a-startup-on-the-side-and-not-lose-your-family/

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 56 comments

Google employee explains how they use sitemaps and how we can benefit from them

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/30186/1253

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 23 comments

Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.

http://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/10-reasons-your-infographic-isn.htm

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 76 comments

Kim Dotcom wins right to FBI files

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7013436/Kim-Dotcom-wins-right-to-FBI-files

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

The exercise habit

http://joel.is/post/24064139389/the-exercise-habit

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 128 comments

How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-ohanian-reddit-how-i-did-it.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 110 comments

Mary Meeker’s eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/30/mary-meeker-internet-trends-2012/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 59 comments

Everything I’ve learned about selling SaaS in Japan

http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/05/everything-ive-learned-about-selling-saas-in-japan/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 51 comments

nReduce: an alliance of hackers

http://www.nreduce.com/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Twitter Rolls Twitter.com Back to a Server-Side Architecture

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

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on The Moon in 1976

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27883/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

Assange loses extradition appeal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18260914

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 55 comments

Whistling Into a Tape Recorder: What the East Coast Doesn't Get About Startups

http://dangrover.com/2012/05/30/whistling-into-a-tape-recorder-what-the-east-coast-doesnt-get-about-startups/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 50 comments

A Cautionary Word on the Deferred Life Plan

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1791

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed

http://blog.dinkevich.com/first-employee-of-startup-you-are-probably-getting-screwed/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Curse of dimensionality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

McLaren F1 Developer Designs New Auto Driving 100 MPH on 96 MPG

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-29/mclaren-f1-developer-designs-new-auto-driving-100-mph-on-96-mpg

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

Talent shortage in Indian IT

http://jace.zaiki.in/2006/11/01/talent-shortage

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

It's About The Hashbangs

http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: I converted my Backbone/Rails app Cloudedit to Parse in 5 minutes

http://www.jamesyu.org/2012/05/20/converting-cloudedit-from-backbone-to-parse/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/498283/0470778058f0ed2c/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 90 comments

Picplum Tech Stack - Backbone, Async Uploads, Prints API

https://speakerdeck.com/u/dodeja/p/picplum-tech-stack

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Big Customers? Who Needs 'Em (Jason Fried)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts-make-me-nervous-it-takes-a-village.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Ketamine Improved Bipolar Depression Within Minutes, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530100247.htm

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Dealing with Wrist Pain

http://www.breccan.com/2012/05/dealing-with-wrist-pain.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Crowdsource Your Company’s Bonuses

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/24062277595/crowdsource-your-companys-bonuses

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Batsd: 37 Signals' Ruby Statsd implementation persisting to Redis

https://github.com/noahhl/batsd

14 years ago

★ 607 Ruby
69 upvotes – 28 comments

Where things come from. (Ham, Lipstick, etc)

http://sourcemap.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

37signals selling Sortfolio on Flippa for 480k

https://flippa.com/2739829-sortfolio-com-web-design-marketplace-w-220k-annual-revenue

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What are you Building?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4045262

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 139 comments

Giant digital fabrication CNC

http://uemfab.blog.com/2012/05/08/over-100-metres-reach-lets-cnc-machine/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

A Message from KPCB Partner, John Doerr

http://www.kpcb.com/news/115/text

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments

Local—now with a dash of Zagat and a sprinkle of Google+

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/localnow-with-dash-of-zagat-and.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Kevin Rose's Next Move: Partner at Google Ventures

http://allthingsd.com/20120530/kevin-roses-next-move-partner-at-google-ventures/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed

http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

First Stem Cell-Based Therapy Gets Approved – In Canada

http://singularityhub.com/2012/05/30/first-stem-cell-based-therapy-gets-approved-%E2%80%93-in-canada/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SingularityHub+(Singularity+Hub)

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Kicksend (YC S11) launches on Android for privately sharing all of your photos

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/29/kicksend-android/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments
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