top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-03

Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/05/scientists_back_kiera_wilmot_b.php

13 years ago

558 upvotes – 219 comments

How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/how-a-clever-player-with-a-useless-item-almost-took-down-eve-onlines-entire

13 years ago

452 upvotes – 106 comments

I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

http://www.taigeair.com/why-gmail-2013-sucks-terribad-user-experience/

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 329 comments

Animated Vector Icons

http://livicons.com/#examples

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 55 comments

I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks

http://joshledgard.com/i-wish-id-thought-of-that-operation-starbucks/

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 62 comments

How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

http://www.toptal.com/python/how-i-made-porn-20x-more-efficient-with-python

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 112 comments

Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/track-tests/2012-tesla-model-s-signature-performance-suspension-walkaround.html

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-silicon-valleys-start-up-machine.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 93 comments

YC without being in YC

http://42floors.com/blog/yc-without-being-in-yc

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 41 comments

NeXT Computer

http://www.johnmirandaphoto.com/next.htm

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 109 comments

OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebration of 'Day Against DRM'

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/day-against-drm.do?code=DRM2013

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 101 comments

BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/semi-conscious/4413238/BeagleBone-Black--A-1-GHz-computer-for--45

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 91 comments

Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22395494

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 68 comments

The world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun has been made

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/154996-the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-has-been-made

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 159 comments

How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison

http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-the-fbi-shawn-hogan-and-brian-dunning-2013-4

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

Entrepreneurs are the New Labor

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-i/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 90 comments

Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/02/turbulenz-html5-game-engine-is-now-open-source/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 29 comments

The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 142 comments

"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany

https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/3020120063403/DE?lang=en

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API

http://www.mocky.io

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture

http://ryancarson.com/post/49494542970/how-to-use-a-reddit-clone-to-boost-company-culture

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

How NYC's first “director of analytics” revolutionized building inspections

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/03/big_data_excerpt_how_mike_flowers_revolutionized_new_york_s_building_inspections.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

A Proposal: Renaming Backend/Frontend to Application/UI Developers

http://theothersideofcode.com/renaming-backend-frontend-to-application-ui-developers

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 72 comments

Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard

http://damienkatz.net/2013/05/dynamo_sure_works_hard.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

UNICEF: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/unicef-tells-slacktivists-give-money-not-facebook-likes/275429/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Why I Wear a Disco Ball

http://blog.willwashburn.com/post/49477700526/why-i-wear-a-disco-ball

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/05/03/eliminating-my-trivial-inconveniences

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

The Cult Of Positive Attitude and Always Saying Yes

http://meetingboy.com/post/49448674854/the-cult-of-positive-attitude-and-always-saying-yes

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/chinese-spy-caught-with-nasa-laptop-full-of-porn-not-secrets/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Balanced is an open company

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3008944/open-company/why-i-made-my-payments-startup-an-open-company

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Can you crack a code?

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/april/can-you-crack-a-code

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

Deep learning made easy

http://fastml.com/deep-learning-made-easy/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Weebly (YC W07) launches new service, Android app

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/03/with-over-15m-sites-built-weebly-launches-new-planner-and-mobile-editor-brings-website-creation-service-to-android/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments
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