top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-15

Send money with Gmail

http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/

13 years ago

779 upvotes – 244 comments

Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech

http://blog.udacity.com/2013/05/sebastian-thrun-announcing-online.html

13 years ago

634 upvotes – 189 comments

The New Yorker Strongbox

http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/

13 years ago

583 upvotes – 164 comments

Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

http://www.wpcentral.com/google-microsoft-remove-youtube-windows-phone-store

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 212 comments

Introducing Android Studio

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDevelopers/posts/ffufAvz9zcz

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 182 comments

The New Google Maps

https://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/?resubmit=true

13 years ago

414 upvotes – 188 comments

Kiera Wilmot, student who caused small explosion, won't face charges

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-kiera-wilmot-no-prosecution-20130515,0,4556500.story

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 115 comments

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/strongbox-and-aaron-swartz.html

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 22 comments

XKCD 1190 is now more individual frames than there are XKCD comics.

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 34 comments

The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714557

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 141 comments

Canadian anti-piracy outfit pirates photos for its website

http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-anti-piracy-outfit-pirates-photos-for-its-website-130515/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 67 comments

Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 157 comments

Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334956/microsoft-responds-to-youtube-windows-phone-takedown-notice

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 75 comments

My first year freelancing

http://alanhollis.com/my-first-year-freelancing/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 64 comments

Parallelism and concurrency need different tools

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/parallelism-and-concurrency-need-different-tools.html

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 69 comments

Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/disappointing-unsealing-decision-aaron-swartz-case

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 7 comments

A Cloudless Atlas – How MapBox Aims to Make the World’s ‘Most Beautiful Map’

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge

http://www.steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

Lies on the London Underground [video]

http://www.tomscott.com/lies/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 123 comments

Google Talk Chat History can no longer be turned off by default

https://support.google.com/talk/answer/161925

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 62 comments

Hangouts for iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id643496868?mt=8

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 94 comments

Linux code is the 'benchmark of quality,' study concludes

http://www.pcworld.in/news/linux-code-benchmark-quality-study-concludes-98752013

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

How mitmproxy works

http://corte.si/posts/code/mitmproxy/howitworks/index.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 11 comments

What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers

http://www.trevormckendrick.com/contracting-developers/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 87 comments

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/?partner=yahootix

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 75 comments

Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/feds-reveal-the-search-warrant-that-seized-mt-gox-account/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 108 comments

Google Apps Script

http://www.google.com/script/start/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: FlatUIKit - Flat UI components for iOS

https://github.com/Grouper/FlatUIKit

13 years ago

★ 7.7k Objective-C MIT
116 upvotes – 55 comments

Give them an inch and they take $773 million

http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/50478689215/give-them-an-inch-and-they-take-773-074-040

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 108 comments

Google’s programming language, Go, gets a big speed boost

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/googles-programming-language-go-gets-a-big-speed-boost/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/irs-face-lawsuit-over-theft-60-million-patient-health-records

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

Why do users click randomly and rapidly when an application hangs?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/39413/why-do-users-click-randomly-and-rapidly-when-an-application-hangs

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 71 comments

Hug vs. Handshake

https://medium.com/women-and-work/1c4f35dec45b

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 157 comments

Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem

https://twitter.com/dribbble/status/334484687131123712

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/google-launches-android-studio-a-development-tool-for-apps/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1 Billion

http://chronicle.com/article/Publisher-Threatens-to-Sue/139243/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Interpol filter scope creep: Australia ordering unilateral website blocks

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/15/interpol-filter-scope-creep-asic-ordering-unilateral-website-blocks/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

We understand why Etsy removes Electronics projects

https://www.tindie.com/blog/i-understand-why-etsy-removes-electronics-projects/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments

Announcing TechStars Austin

http://www.techstars.com/announcing-techstars-austin/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Rich desktop app for HTML/CSS authoring

http://www.pingendo.com

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

San Francisco's Real Startup Secret Sauce

http://www.inc.com/philip-rosedale/start-up-magic-of-san-francisco.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Meteor 0.6.3: WebSockets, MongoDB 2.4, Coffee 1.6.2, synthetic tap events

http://meteor.com/blog/2013/05/15/meteor-063-websockets-mongodb-24-coffee-162-synthetic-tap-events

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Equipment Failure May Cut Kepler Mission Short

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/science/space/equipment-failure-may-cut-kepler-mission-short.html?emc=na&_r=0

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Why I chose to write Nuuton in Go

http://nuuton.com/blog/why_i_chose_go.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 63 comments

Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/introducing-strongbox-anonymous-document-sharing-tool.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

MitmProxy 0.9 is out

http://corte.si/posts/code/mitmproxy/announce0_9/index.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Where Is .Net Headed?

http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2013/05/15/where-is-net-headed.aspx?utm_source=feedly

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 105 comments

The coming political battle over Bitcoin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/15/the-coming-political-battle-over-bitcoin/?tid=pm_pop

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

How I 'stole' $14 million from a bank: A security tester's tale

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/15/technology/security/bank-heist/index.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 57 comments

Dribbble is Back With a Day of Data Lost

http://blog.dribbble.com/post/50490891209/regarding-our-recent-site-outage

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Facebook Home and Dogfooding

http://daringfireball.net/2013/05/facebook_home_dogfooding

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 63 comments
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