top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-08

Dear Apple, let's talk about photos

http://peternixey.com/post/49928526270/dear-apple-lets-talk-about-photos

13 years ago

429 upvotes – 297 comments

Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 182 comments

Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/7-dodgy-foodag-practices-banned-europe-just-fine-here

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 197 comments

Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating

http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-your-linkedin-contacts-and-be-humiliated-try-founderdating/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 126 comments

Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/08/news/economy/hospital-bills/index.html

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 338 comments

The Freelancer's Guide to Recurring Revenue

https://planscope.io/blog/the-freelancers-guide-to-recurring-revenue/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF

http://www.flattestroute.com/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 204 comments

Aaron Greenspan sues Facebook, Sequoia, Andreesen, YC, others

http://www.scribd.com/doc/139975904/20130506-complaint

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 171 comments

Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 258 comments

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583395-38/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-mail-facebook-chats/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

https://www.uncover.com/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 140 comments

LinkedIn

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/5/8/linkedin

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 110 comments

The Colors of Dribbble

http://nathanspeller.com/color-pickers/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 30 comments

Unreal JavaScript

http://blog.bitops.com/blog/2013/05/01/unreal-javascript/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 71 comments

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion

http://theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/08/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-onion/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

http://nemaload.davidad.org/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 42 comments

The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/98034/The-Pitch-Deck-We-Used-To-Raise-500-000-For-Our-Startup.aspx

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 29 comments

If you love automation, why is your development environment manual?

http://sidekicksrc.com/post/if-you-love-automation-why-is-your-development-environment-manual/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 113 comments

Microsoft Code Digger

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Digging-into-your-code-with-the-free-Microsoft-Code-Digger-and-the-power-of-Pex

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web

https://plot.ly/plot

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 63 comments

Boris: A tiny but robust REPL for PHP

https://github.com/d11wtq/boris

13 years ago

★ 2.1k PHP MIT
121 upvotes – 46 comments

Planar Choreographies: odd orbital mechanics

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jm/Choreographies/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug

http://minimaxir.com/2013/05/stones-of-jordan/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 123 comments

Paid for Stripe

http://paidhq.com/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

Obama May Back FBI Plan to Expand Wiretap Laws

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/obama-may-back-fbi-plan-to-wiretap-web-users.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/aol-is-still-the-weidest-successful-tech-company-in-america/275673/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Learn SQL, dammit

http://gun.io/blog/learn-sql/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 114 comments

HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk

http://tech.pollev.com/articles/html5-app-on-a-floppy/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 75 comments

A regular expression matcher By Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan (2007)

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/one-hospital-charges-8000-another-38000/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 105 comments

37signals report card

http://37signals.com/reportcard

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/facebook-aims-to-knock-cisco-down-a-peg-with-open-network-hardware/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/free-online-textbooks-with-conditions/2013/05/07/b49364ce-b761-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?hpid=z9

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

CSS3 Ping Pong, with scoring

http://cssdeck.com/labs/css3-pong-with-scoring

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach

http://www.thedomains.com/2013/05/08/name-com-tells-customers-to-change-password-due-to-breach/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Amazon and Google are on a collision course

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/08/godzilla-vs-mothra-the-sequel/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 68 comments

AngularJS powered mobile boilerplate app that also does offline out of the box

https://github.com/comoyo/ffos-list-detail

13 years ago

★ 366 JavaScript MIT
68 upvotes – 19 comments

Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/a-humbled-kleiner-perkins-adjusts-its-strategy/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

On the cusp of something big

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2013/05/on-the-cusp-of-something-big.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Sensors on Google Glass

http://thecodeartist.blogspot.com/2013/05/sensors-on-google-glass.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Buzz Aldrin: Get to Mars within 20 years

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/07/buzz-aldrin-get-to-mars-within-20-years/?hpt=hp_bn1

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

scala-zeromq - thread-safe ZeroMQ sockets for Scala

https://github.com/mDialog/scala-zeromq

13 years ago

★ 126 Scala
58 upvotes – 3 comments

MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/05/mpeg1-video-decoder-in-javascript

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

The future of creative work online - Welcome to the new Scoutzie (YC S12)

http://blog.scoutzie.com/post/49891113780/new-scoutzie-future-of-working-online

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Zach Braff Responds to Kickstarter Critics [video]

http://mashable.com/2013/05/08/zach-braff-interview/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 40 comments

How to get Hilary Mason to build your recommender for free

http://blog.mortardata.com/post/49934459499/recommender-systems-for-free

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 1 comments
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