top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-04

Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

14 years ago

566 upvotes – 129 comments

Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/87/54K53/index.xml?section

14 years ago

552 upvotes – 180 comments

The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/06/hey-brother-can-you-spare-a-hubble-dod-sure-have-two/258061/

14 years ago

319 upvotes – 148 comments

Google buys Meebo

http://blog.meebo.com/?p=4974

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 112 comments

What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/145669/what-software-programming-languages-were-used-by-the-soviet-unions-space-progra

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 41 comments

/dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/index.php

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 23 comments

Heroku Isn't for Idiots: developer time and comparative advantage

http://rdegges.com/heroku-isnt-for-idiots

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 69 comments

The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to spread malware

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002377.html

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 61 comments

Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTExMzA

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 162 comments

Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe

http://www.insidescience.org/?q=content/every-black-hole-contains-new-universe/566

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 77 comments

Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/long-range-wifi-antenna-from-illy.html

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 49 comments

Font Awesome 2.0 - 70 new icons, desktop font, vectors, IE7 support

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 27 comments

The TTY demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 17 comments

Building a MongoDB Clone in Postgres

http://legitimatesounding.com/blog/building_a_mongodb_clone_in_postgres_part_1.html

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 95 comments

Microsoft Certificate used to sign "Flame"

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13366&rss

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 47 comments

Building a dependable hosting stack using Hetzner’s servers

http://devblog.supportbee.com/2012/06/04/building-a-dependable-hosting-stack-using-hetzners-servers/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 62 comments

Let's get a little louder

http://juliaelman.com/blog/2012/jun/3/lets-get-little-louder/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 145 comments

Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 ARM Devices

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Bans+LinuxAndroid+DualBooting+on+Windows+8+ARM+Devices/article23785.htm

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 133 comments

Oracle Sues Lodsys

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120604161143147

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

Urban trees reveal income inequality

http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/17/urban-trees-reveal-income-inequality/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 78 comments

Groupon now worth less than the $6 billion Google offered.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/04/technology/groupon-stock-6-billion/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

State of the Backbone

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2012/06/state-of-the-backbone/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2983

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

http://arvindn.livejournal.com/135926.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 71 comments

Getting shares back from my co-founders

http://www.ecquire.com/blog/getting-shares-back-from-my-cofounders/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in JavaScript.

http://css.dzone.com/articles/you-can-write-large-programs

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 166 comments

Amelia Earhart: New evidence tells of her last days on a Pacific atoll

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0602/Amelia-Earhart-New-evidence-tells-of-her-last-days-on-a-Pacific-atoll-video

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Joosy, the rails-tied browser app framework

http://borisstaal.com/post/24401343976/joosy-alternative-approach-to-browser-frameworks

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

Hackathon No More

http://chengsoon.com/2012/06/04/hackathon_no_more.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Instapaper Finally Makes Its Android Debut, And It’s Almost Amazing

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/instapaper-finally-makes-its-android-debut-and-its-almost-amazing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Entrepreneurship for the 99%

http://steveblank.com/2012/06/04/entrepreneurship-for-the-99/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Advanced Minesweeper

http://datagenetics.com/blog/june12012/index.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Chrome Networking: DNS Prefetch & TCP Preconnect

http://www.igvita.com/2012/06/04/chrome-networking-dns-prefetch-and-tcp-preconnect/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Behind the scenes – Injection molding

http://blog.openbeamusa.com/2012/05/18/behind-the-scenes-injection-molding/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Hacking: Always Design the UX First

http://blog.systemizer.me/2012/06/hacking-always-design-ux-first.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft Introduces Second-Screen Feature, Xbox SmartGlass

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/microsoft-introduces-second-screen-feature-xbox-smartglass/?icid=tc_home_art&

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Rackspace Reduces Cloud Files Storage Price by 33%

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-files-updates/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Why is this so hard... Apple

http://philfreo.com/blog/why-is-this-so-hard-apple/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Transit of Venus

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/2012-venus-transit.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

PouchDB: A browser database that syncs with CouchDB

http://pouchdb.com/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Software eating the Fortune 500

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/06/software-eating-the-fortune-500.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Warren Buffett on newspapers [pdf]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/LettertoPublisherandEditors.pdf

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

We’re all trolls now: Patent ‘rat’s nest’ is worse than you think

http://gigaom.com/mobile/were-all-trolls-now-why-the-patent-rats-nest-is-worse-than-you-think/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

Zed A. Shaw - The Web Will Die When OOP Dies

http://vimeo.com/43380467

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments
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