top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-04-29

Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/

13 years ago

551 upvotes – 384 comments

My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

http://trondblog.tumblr.com/post/49192504201/so-my-former-employer-opera-software-has-filed-a

13 years ago

475 upvotes – 233 comments

How I coded in 1985

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/how-i-coded-in-1985.html

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 118 comments

Google Now on your iPhone and iPad

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-now-on-your-iphone-and-ipad-with.html

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 223 comments

I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look

http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/united-states/california/san-francisco/mission-dolores/valencia-st/199

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 128 comments

Black Start

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 105 comments

Google releases some Glass source code

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google-releases-glass-source-code-declares-platform-open-to-hackers/

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 127 comments

Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 129 comments

Hurricane on Saturn

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14944.html

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 51 comments

Get that job at Facebook (2012)

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that-job-at-facebook/10150964382448920%22

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 164 comments

Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

http://cross-browser.org/Blog/post/2013/04/29/How-10-Popular-Websites-Are-Displayed-in-IE-5.aspx

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 115 comments

The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick

https://coderwall.com/p/zbc2zw

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 124 comments

India is drowning in its own excreta

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2013/04/24/india-drowning-in-its-own-excreta/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 130 comments

Please use git pull --rebase

https://coderwall.com/p/7aymfa

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 114 comments

CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

http://crapcha.com/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5626079

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 55 comments

How I attacked a fellow student

http://shaanan.cohney.info/blog/2013/04/the-attack/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 46 comments

Fix random few-second freezes in Mountain Lion

http://www.princeton.edu/~jcjb/docs/osx_error_fix/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 110 comments

Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/4/29/faster-better-dom-manipulation-with-dommy-and-clojurescript

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 49 comments

Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues

http://designtaxi.com/news/357287/Microsoft-Puts-Free-Portable-WiFi-In-Forbes-Magazine-Print-Issues/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 92 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments