top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-12

I Don't Want Your Fucking App

http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com

13 years ago

560 upvotes – 256 comments

Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

http://qz.com/81661/most-data-isnt-big-and-businesses-are-wasting-money-pretending-it-is/

13 years ago

394 upvotes – 156 comments

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 33 comments

Samsung is hurting Android

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/samsung-is-hurting-android?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 111 comments

0 second visits according to Google Analytics

http://paweljaniak.co.za/2013/05/12/0-second-visits/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 57 comments

Why education startups do not succeed

http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 45 comments

Learn Web Penetration Testing The Right Way

https://www.pentesterlab.com/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 24 comments

How a nation of junkies went cold turkey

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113051/georgias-war-drugs-how-its-subutex-addiction-ended

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 110 comments

The Startup Story I Want To Hear

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2013/05/the-startup-story-i-want-to-hear.php

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 62 comments

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/02/18/found-at-auction-the-unseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 23 comments

Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama'

http://theweek.com/article/index/243809/why-babies-in-every-country-on-earth-say-mama

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)

http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 152 comments

Angry young Indians: What a waste

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21577372-how-india-throwing-away-worlds-biggest-economic-opportunity-what-waste

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 108 comments

Call Mom Maybe

https://blog.twitter.com/2013/call-mom-maybe

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Should you submit to Hacker News?

http://mayank.lahiri.me/writing/hackernews/index.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL

http://stackednotion.com/shortly/#TVO7jtwwDOz9FQSuSLPwLoIgRboAFyQHpMqjSClLtCWsJBoitc7+fShp75BOGJPDmSH901OReIfAYICx3LBEZIbdsOAScseCxRm+6Ke7+JA38GbfMTNQBvEINgbMAhwcnsBk10FnxDRWFiroIIzS3z++z9P09ATf6IAgcFC58jQ9P4otpb3oeG2o3CZ1JlyjEQQTNypBfDo1OMNiGD9+AMyWnDYI6ZNrwcZrjX7H1+FsVmwes3psCuBF2rTOwihg+huOkB0dcyRrJFCevWEPtA6PtZRmcjcbqoPnsK7YgaXQoRmxhnJTrW94DCkIv7YLiYltNkTMm/gTeDpQEwVTqGpk7y+XC1hvirHS2BgxcfOkLhpBQc0mYXYPO5DM35BqmuGz9IJEqY3VZ0uAXwWr7Uxjaz2glYodjF3gfzp0Otor19RvwT0i7aDWG90VwtbCivFtwZrEH6qq5T50hnwdWzNdCTfdWn+HSArXEpVZ5elyAnPVa1mqjOrA+d0wYnWtM/xClka1BJm1v1/VbEl3JP5B3enaAanSBlOVQcszNFWWanSg5nILdhxgUk9qQkNq10DF6UNdOlU5qJtQxbq5eZzqVzX9km8Ub+imyYvs/Ol83rS6LiopnWNVzXuIEcuZx//0Dw==9

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel

https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/shipping-seven-is-a-fraud/comment-page-1/#comment-160264

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 87 comments

Engineering the $325,000 Burger

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/science/engineering-the-325000-in-vitro-burger.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 122 comments

Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

http://jaunesarmiento.me/fries/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/how-colleges-are-selling-out-the-poor-to-court-the-rich/275725/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

How Facebook ruined comments (at least for me)

http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/facebook-comments/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Declarative Data Visualization library

http://akngs.tumblr.com/post/30393301015/declarative-data-visualization

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby

https://gist.github.com/andkerosine/3356675

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer

http://pbrisbin.com/posts/chromebook

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Battery performance analysis

http://iss.oy.ne.ro/HTML5-Video-Battery

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?

http://www.quantisan.com/post-gone-viral-16000-visitors-in-a-day-how-many-actually-read-the-article/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 71 comments

How To Win At Email

http://www.nikilster.com/thoughts/how-to-win-at-email

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects

http://contextinator.cs.vt.edu/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Google SMS search has been shut down

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/websearch/yKG7BGro7QQ/ntAXQWWKj70J

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/12/jaron_lanier_the_internet_destroyed_the_middle_class/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

Mir in Kubuntu

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

American Airlines: one day of lounge access to anyone with Klout score over 55

http://corp.klout.com/blog/2013/05/american-airlines-klout/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 87 comments

Hacker News apps

https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb/wiki/Hacker-News-apps

13 years ago

★ 1.2k CSS
69 upvotes – 20 comments

Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles

http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Modes in UI are bad; even worse are timed modes

http://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 99 comments

Realizing too many good things gone in HN newest, I created this after 2 hours

http://www.cahella.com

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments
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