top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-07

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/why-isnt-gatsby-public-domain

13 years ago

590 upvotes – 183 comments

Git? tig

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/

13 years ago

499 upvotes – 110 comments

Two.js

http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js

13 years ago

488 upvotes – 62 comments

The story around the Linode hack

http://straylig.ht/zines/HTP5/0x02_Linode.txt

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 169 comments

Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order

http://www.popehat.com/2013/05/06/does-prenda-believe-in-no-win-scenarios-because-judge-wright-just-gave-them-one/

13 years ago

350 upvotes – 82 comments

John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/331918309916295168

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 137 comments

Our Solar System Isn't Normal

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/05/06/181613582/our-very-normal-solar-system-isn-t-normal-anymore

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 101 comments

Tailgating YC

http://techrotica.tumblr.com/post/49857902866/tailgating-y-combinator

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 122 comments

Iron Ring

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

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 187 comments

CSS Zen Garden is 10 Years Old Today

http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2013/05/07/10_years/

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 50 comments

Pizza Compass

http://pizza-compass.com/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 117 comments

Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000112.html

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 54 comments

Inequality and Mass Transit in the Bay Area

http://dangrover.github.io/sf-transit-inequality/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 133 comments

Discover Meteor

http://www.discovermeteor.com/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Traffic From Syria Disappears From Internet

http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/05/07/breaking-news-traffic-from-syria-disappears-from-internet/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 136 comments

You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping

http://42floors.com/blog/you-dont-have-to-feel-guilty-for-over-sleeping/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 106 comments

Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/05/07/coinbase-nabs-5m-in-biggest-funding-for-bitcoin-startup/?mod=WSJBlog

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 115 comments

Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/neuro-artificial-intelligence/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative

http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/uconomix/this-is-why-i-am-always-on-the-lookout-for-a-paypal-alternative

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 73 comments

Interviewing in Silicon Valley

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1709

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Writing Effective Welcome Emails

http://www.vinaysahni.com/11-tips-for-writing-effective-welcome-emails

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

The Food-Truck Business Stinks

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/the-food-truck-business-stinks.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 144 comments

Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/alpr

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 88 comments

Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler

http://tildehash.com/?article=firefoxs-inspector-tool-as-3d-modeler-seriously

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 11 comments

Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 1 comments

Eighteen months of Django

http://dangoldin.com/2013/05/07/eighteen-months-of-django/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 83 comments

Django REST framework 2.3 released: ViewSets and Routers

http://django-rest-framework.org/topics/2.3-announcement.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/05/03/bc-cyber-stalking.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 126 comments

U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/world/asia/us-accuses-chinas-military-in-cyberattacks.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

Go 1.1 RC2 is out

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/PoQGGq-V2l8/8e6y9zBylE0J

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Why IBM Now Views LLVM As Being Critical Software

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2NjU

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Contact Yahoo (1998)

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/contact.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Senate Backs Bill to Force Tax Collection on Internet Sales

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/business/senate-backs-wider-internet-tax-collection.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/if-you-get-phd-get-economics-phd.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Humble Double Fine Bundle is available now

https://www.humblebundle.com/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Daily happiness averages using Twitter

http://hedonometer.org/index.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

IBM open sources new approach to crypto

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/03/ibm_open_source_homomorphic_crypto/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft prepares U-turn on Windows 8

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/330c8b8e-b66b-11e2-93ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SbWWnYCE

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 120 comments

Urbanization is supersizing spiders

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/urbanization-is-supersizing-spiders/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Go ahead, pass the Internet tax. Your (foreign) competitors thank you.

http://blog2.easydns.org/2013/05/07/go-ahead-pass-the-internet-tax-your-foreign-competitors-thank-you-in-advance/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 119 comments
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