top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-06

Linux is not about choice (2008)

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 230 comments

I Am a Bad Developer

http://eewz0z.pen.io

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 204 comments

In defense of <canvas>

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/in-defense-of-canvas/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 61 comments

Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 122 comments

What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/06/kara-swisher-instagram

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 142 comments

How to Spread The Word About Your Code

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/how-to-spread-the-word-about-your-code/

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 32 comments

DBX

https://www.dropbox.com/dbx

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 95 comments

Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer

http://stratechery.com/2013/jony-ive-is-not-a-graphic-designer/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 89 comments

American Dialect Map

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 126 comments

HN supports SPDY

http://spdycheck.org/#news.ycombinator.com

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 71 comments

Hacking Google's HVAC Systems

http://cylance.com/techblog/Googles-Buildings-Hackable.shtml

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/06/after-nearly-10-years-adobe-abandons-its-creative-suite-entirely-to-focus-on-creative-cloud/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 209 comments

"I can't do math" (2001)

http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/michael.molinsky/public.www/iaq/mmm001.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 132 comments

Worthless security claims

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/why-i-am-worlds-greatest-lover-and.html

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs

https://zapier.com/status/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)

http://blog.willbenton.com/2008/11/rent-a-coder-hilarity/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 131 comments

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (1989)

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 11 comments

Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader

http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=762317

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Binary marble adding machine

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

Turning Down TechCrunch

https://medium.com/building-gittip/5886749a4ded

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-OTP-Behaviors

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 5 comments

Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514581/government-lab-reveals-quantum-internet-operated-continuously-for-over-two-years/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)

http://books.google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

Docker 0.3 released: public index, data volumes and open-source registry

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.3.0-release-note,-May-6-2013

13 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0
111 upvotes – 15 comments

The Future of Adobe Fireworks

http://blogs.adobe.com/fireworks/2013/05/the-future-of-adobe-fireworks.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 74 comments

VimSpeak

https://github.com/AshleyF/VimSpeak

13 years ago

★ 418 F# MIT
105 upvotes – 41 comments

U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case

http://torrentfreak.com/united-states-fears-end-of-megaupload-case-130505/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 106 comments

Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/honeywords/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition

http://lispinsummerprojects.org/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Coinbase grew 15x in the past 3 months

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/49782323057/coinbase-now-processing-15m-per-month-in-bitcoin-buys

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking Redis: Adding Interval Sets

http://www.starkiller.net/2013/05/03/hacking-redis-adding-interval-sets/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Remaining .io domain names of common words

http://iodomains.nickmcnutt.com/#

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Breakthrough in solar efficiency by UNSW team

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/breakthrough-in-solar-efficiency-by-unsw-team-ahead-of-its-time-20130505-2j117.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Peter Thiel - You are Not a Lottery Ticket [video]

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29931127

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

What We Learned About Tiered Pricing vs Pay-As-You-Go

http://blog.framebase.io/post/49792280436/tiered-pricing-vs-pay-as-you-go

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

https://twitter.com/DeeSadler/status/331209193451315202

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

http://freelancersticker.com/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 81 comments

Protesters Smash Google Shuttle Bus Piñata In Fight Against Rent Increases

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/protesters-smash-google-bus-pinata/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 101 comments

Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/are-video-codecs-written-in-javascript-really-the-future/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5662214

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 57 comments

Internal Microsoft email: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux

http://41j.com/hterm

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/maurice-hilleman-mmr-vaccines-forgotten-hero.html?hp

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?

https://mathieu.fenniak.net/idempotent-web-apis-what-benefit-do-i-get/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 53 comments

Something Meaningful

http://blog.coffeestrap.com/2013/05/06/something-meaningful/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 36 comments

Funding your startup with a "one week on, three weeks off" consulting setup

http://blog.statuspage.io/funding-your-startup-with-a-one-week-on-three-weeks-off-setup

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/06/phusion-passenger-4-0-1-final-release/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Who really runs Wikipedia?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-who-really-runs-wikipedia?fsrc=neurogami

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

World's first 3D printed gun test fired

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Java 7 Features Backported to Android

https://github.com/yareally/Java7-on-Android

13 years ago

★ 88 Java
49 upvotes – 33 comments

On To Google Ventures

http://parislemon.com/post/49782762413/on-to-google-ventures

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 48 comments
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