top 50% 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

Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?

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

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 55 comments

CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

http://crapcha.com/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 67 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

iio Engine – A new HTML5 App Framework

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/642396-iio-engine-a-new-html5-app-framework/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 10 comments

The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-myth-of-americas-tech-talent-shortage/275319/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 123 comments

UK Government passes “Instagram Act”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Reynolds

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 15 comments

How to get a job after your startup fails

http://www.jamesmaskell.co.uk/2013/how-to-get-a-job-after-startup-failure/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 41 comments

How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/howto-opt-out-databrokers-showing-your-targeted-advertisements-facebook?ad

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator

https://webfwd.org/apply

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Ghost: The Future of Blogging (Node.js)

http://tryghost.org/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository

http://gigaom.com/2013/04/26/wikipedia-is-now-drawing-facts-from-the-wikidata-repository-and-so-can-you/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

Virgin Galactic goes faster than speed of sound in flight test

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/momentous-day-for-space-travel

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

View the Universe in different wavelengths

http://astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk/Planck/Chromoscope/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

http://tryghost.org/features.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 44 comments

Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former-employee-gave-away-trade-secrets-to-mozilla-sues-him-for-3-4m/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html?cmpid=yhoo

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 98 comments

The 3.9 kernel is out

http://lwn.net/Articles/548786/rss

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

History of San Francisco Place Names

http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

OVH has been compromised

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186902.msg1936161#msg1936161

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

Calling All Hackers

http://braythwayt.com/2013/04/29/calling-all-hackers.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare

https://diogenes.squarespace.com/blog/on-being-a-designer-and-a-developer-not-quite-unicorn-rare

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-9-the-demo-scene/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

Please help get rid of normalize.css

https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/issues/179

13 years ago

★ 53.5k CSS MIT
85 upvotes – 11 comments

Panel seeks to fine tech companies for noncompliance with wiretap orders

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/proposal-seeks-to-fine-tech-companies-for-noncompliance-with-wiretap-orders/2013/04/28/29e7d9d8-a83c-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Call Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative

http://bygonebureau.com/2013/04/23/call-girl-what-i-learned-during-my-year-as-a-customer-service-representative/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Why is printf better than echo?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/65803/14305

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Stray Dogs Master Complex Moscow Subway System (2010)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833#.UX7lveJI47z

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Mozilla Persona for the non-web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/mozilla-persona-for-the-non-web/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier

https://zapier.com/blog/2013/04/29/turn-gtalk-into-a-command-line-for-anyone/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

How to install Ubuntu 13.04 on your Android phone

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/04/28/2330?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Bugs produce diesel on demand

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_281715_en.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments
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