top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-30

To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/06/29/to-elon-musk-and-the-model-s-congratulations/

14 years ago

Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57464415-93/facebook-e-mail-mess-address-books-altered-e-mail-lost/?tag=mncol

14 years ago

Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library

http://libccv.org/post/introducing-ccv-milestone/

14 years ago

The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir

http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir/pguo-PhD-grind.pdf

14 years ago

Leap second causing Linux server crashes?

http://serverfault.com/q/403732/8453

14 years ago

AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US

http://status.aws.amazon.com

14 years ago

Heroku is down again

https://status.heroku.com/

14 years ago

Amber Waves of Green

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201207/amber-waves-of-green-jon-ronson-gq-july-2012?printable=true

14 years ago

Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

http://ikamasutra.com/apple/

14 years ago

The FFmpeg/Libav situation

http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

14 years ago

Chrome now the most popular browser

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201105-201205

14 years ago

Higher-order programming in C

http://vedantk.tumblr.com/post/26182854460/higher-order-programming-in-c

14 years ago

How Google handle leap seconds

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html

14 years ago

JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/understanding-javascript-prototypes/

14 years ago

Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/

14 years ago

Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4181348

14 years ago

A rough guide to keeping your website up through catastrophic events

http://blog.rainforestapp.com/post/26217277790/a-rough-guide-to-keeping-your-website-up-through

14 years ago

Quake 3 Source Code Review

http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php

14 years ago

Did Twitter Just Deliver Third Party Apps A Death Blow?

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/did-twitter-just-deliver-third-party-apps-a-death-blow.php

14 years ago

SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/j1XNJ40m48I/

14 years ago

Introduction to Algorithms

http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_demaine_lec02/

14 years ago

Will That Be Trash or Credit?

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_06_29/caredit.a1200072

14 years ago

If you're not going to become a professor, then why bother pursuing a Ph.D.?

http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir-epilogue.htm

14 years ago

Letters of Note: I think I no how to make people or animals alive

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/i-think-i-no-how-to-make-people-or.html

14 years ago

Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182993

14 years ago

US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing

http://singularityhub.com/2012/06/29/us-navy-x-47b-robot-fighter-jet-completes-first-phase-of-testing/

14 years ago

Why supermarket tomatoes tend to taste bland

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-tomato-taste-20120630,0,4449608.story

14 years ago

Why Hipmunk Is The World's Best Travel Site

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/29/why-hipmunk-is-the-worlds-best-travel-site/

14 years ago