top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-31

Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531172522459

14 years ago

735 upvotes – 141 comments

Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18273811?

14 years ago

405 upvotes – 110 comments

The girl with the ANSI tattoo

http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/girl-with-ansi-tattoo.html

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 150 comments

Chromebox

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 297 comments

My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.

http://nukaco.la/

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 108 comments

Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games

http://www.humblebundle.com/?hib5

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 106 comments

Latency numbers every programmer should know

https://gist.github.com/2841832

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 134 comments

Google Blockly - a visual programming language

http://code.google.com/p/google-blockly/

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 123 comments

Why I Left Google

http://www.spencertipping.com/posts/2012.0530.why-i-left-google.html

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 212 comments

Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"

http://codemanship.co.uk/parlezuml/blog/?postid=1109

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 196 comments

Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt.

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-demands-return-of-millions-of-dollars-from-u-s-govt-120531/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 90 comments

You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 78 comments

Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding

http://gigaom.com/cloud/scoop-meteor-gets-9m-in-funding/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 64 comments

Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech: Make Great Things. Learn From Failure.

http://uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 17 comments

Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/better-search-in-mainland-china.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 58 comments

LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements

http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/05/30/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-3-5-4/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

Light Table: 24 Hours to Get Another $7000 in the Kickstarter for Python Support

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=history

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

The politics of Wi-Fi names

http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/politics-of-wifi-names.php

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18277074

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 95 comments

Workplace experiments: A month to yourself

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3186-workplace-experiments-a-month-to-yourself

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 44 comments
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