top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-03

The Next Microsoft

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/journal/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft.html

14 years ago

1183 upvotes – 329 comments

Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120501.html

14 years ago

646 upvotes – 127 comments

Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

14 years ago

347 upvotes – 355 comments

Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/07/03/louis-c-k-sees-ticket-scalping-drop-over-96-by-switching-to-selling-tickets-himself/

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 209 comments

Apple ignores bug report

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2012/07/what-the-fucking-fuck-apple

14 years ago

318 upvotes – 188 comments

"Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18684075

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 34 comments

Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/80GcWKQBZhs

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 109 comments

Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown

https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-joe-biden-ordered-the-megaupload-shutdown-120703/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 88 comments

Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4192957

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 23 comments

Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57465433-93/facebooks-e-mail-debacle-one-bug-fix-but-rollback-impossible/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 111 comments

Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System

http://titanous.com/posts/vulnerabilities-in-heroku-build-system

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 34 comments

European Court: Used software licenses may be resold.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fnetzpolitik%2Feugh-zu-oracle-vs-usedsoft-gebrauchte-software-darf-verkauft-werden-a-842260.html&act=url

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 70 comments

MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine?

http://ingoschramm.tumblr.com/post/26409997578/mvc-move-or-simply-a-state-machine

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 45 comments

Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English

http://www.tldrlegal.com/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/technology/megaupload-founder-goes-from-arrest-to-cult-hero.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 61 comments

40+ voice searches thrown at Google on Jelly Bean

https://plus.google.com/100130762972482716067/posts/BN5qjTEN62r

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 44 comments

PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428399/pagerank-algorithm-reveals-soccer-teams/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Service Drops Support for Opera

http://planetbotch.blogspot.no/2012/06/google-service-drops-support-for-opera.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/03/google-shutdowns-continue-igoogle-google-video-google-mini-others-are-killed/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 81 comments

Twitter Loses 'Occupy Wall Street' Case, Forced To Hand Over User Info

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/twitter-loses-occupy-wall-street-case-forced-to-hand-over-user-info.php

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 66 comments

CERN scientists to announce proof of Higgs boson found

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-cern-scientists-proof-higgs-boson.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East

http://aws.amazon.com/message/67457/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 78 comments

Golang at CloudFlare

http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 68 comments

Parsing regular expressions with recursive descent

http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-regex-with-recursive-descent/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Hetzner mail to customers: 1 megawatt more power due to leap second

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4194159

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Visual Studio 2012 will build apps that can run on XP

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320645.aspx

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science

http://mashable.com/2012/07/01/stanford-top-major-computer-science/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Build a Robot Overlord Using Node.js, Twilio, and Arduino

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/06/build-a-phone-controlled-robot-using-node-js-arduino-rn-xv-wifly-arduinoand-twilio.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Google joins Samsung in patent dispute with Apple

http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/02/samsung-apple-patent-dispute-google/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

Steve Jobs The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don’t tell anyone, okay?

http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/02/steve-jobs-the-lost-interview-itunes-dont-tell-anyone-okay/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Hulu With Me (Firefox/Chrome add-on + Node)

http://huluwith.me

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux

http://kotaku.com/5923068/report-blizzard-banning-diablo-iii-players-for-using-linux

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

The Leanest Startup in Silicon Valley

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201207/leigh-buchanan/the-leanest-startup-kurt-varner-dailytoaster.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Executives who are exceptional at chess

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8293

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments
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