top 50% 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

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

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

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

Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

http://www.hackerno.de

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 68 comments

25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth

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

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One.

http://pointsandfigures.com/2012/05/31/those-who-have-a-job-want-to-quit-those-who-want-a-job-cant-find-one-blame-entrepreneurism/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/553362111/collusion-ipad-pen-productivity-solved

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast"

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uc6qy/reddit_today_i_was_reading_about_bose_thanks_to/c4u50kr

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting

http://www.howtogeek.com/115229/htg-explains-why-linux-doesnt-need-defragmenting/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system

http://pine.cs.yale.edu/pinewiki/Paxos

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-wins-crucial-api-ruling-oracles-case-decimated/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Windows 8 Release Preview ready for download

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/iso?ocid=W_OFF_W8P_TechCenter_ISO_en-us

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 89 comments

Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans

http://5in5nyc.com/2012/05/31/dear-startups-lobster-is-the-new-comic-sans

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 65 comments

Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now.aspx

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Udacity offers new classes from this summer

http://udacity.blogspot.in/2012/05/udacity-expands-course-offerings-five.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/yc-backed-gocardless-launches-paylinks-a-bitly-for-payments/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Pizza Cook job listing at Apple

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=114974&CurrentPage=7

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

How APIs should be: Drop in keys, running in 1 minute

http://blog.singly.com/2012/05/31/how-apis-should-be-drop-in-keys-and-be-running-in-1-minute/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Workflow.py: A Minimalist Workflow Engine

https://github.com/mdipierro/workflow

14 years ago

★ 564 Python
70 upvotes – 12 comments

3-D Printing's Legal Morass

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/3-d-printing-patent-law/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

Clipboard officially open to the public

http://blog.clipboard.com/2012/05/31/0-Going-Public

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

App Academy: Free nine week iOS course

http://www.hashmaplabs.com/app_academy

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

Oracle can't copyright parts of Java - court ruling

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-oracle-google-ruling-idUSBRE84U1BS20120531

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Gabor Cselle leaving Google

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/05/my-next-step.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Using pushState? Make sure your links are fine

http://dev.tenfarms.com/posts/proper-link-handling

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments

We still need to raise $1,599 this month. In less than 24 hours

http://somafm.com/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Three Strikes Against ACTA In European Parliament Today

http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/31/three-strikes-against-acta-in-european-parliament-today/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

JSX - a faster, safer, easier alternative to JavaScript

http://jsx.github.com/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 69 comments

Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/31/delivering-the-windows-8-release-preview.aspx

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 59 comments
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