top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-16

Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project

http://7-min.com/

13 years ago

760 upvotes – 155 comments

Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corporate-troll-alcatel-in-third-patent-appeal-win-this-year/

13 years ago

449 upvotes – 115 comments

What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?

http://eschnou.com/entry/whats-next-google--dropping-smtp-support--62-24930.html

13 years ago

425 upvotes – 248 comments

Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)

http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/3583964949/figures-they-speak-for-themselves-mildly-nsfw

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help

http://pastebin.com/1S4cD666

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 163 comments

Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11

https://github.com/mothran/bunny

13 years ago

★ 926 Python
331 upvotes – 55 comments

Homemade GPS Receiver

http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm#

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 66 comments

D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 92 comments

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-makes-us-happy-2013-4

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 169 comments

Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/introducing-actions-in-inbox-powered-by.html

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 137 comments

Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google

http://www.polymer-project.org/?repost

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 117 comments

Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service

http://glassbalcony.tumblr.com/post/50566035697/hey-internet-giants-youre-no-longer-startups-get

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 98 comments

Not Having A Real Job

http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/not-having-a-real-job

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 126 comments

RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/1.5-release/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 102 comments

How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection

http://mentalfloss.com/article/48844/how-working-class-couple-amassed-priceless-art-collection

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 26 comments

AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game

http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2013/05/16/aws-redshift-how-amazon-changed-the-game/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 21 comments

Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-kevin-michael-steve-dalton-and-andrew

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 62 comments

FreeCiv now playable as HTML5 game, including on mobile devices

http://play.freeciv.org/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 26 comments

Memory Allocators 101

http://jamesgolick.com/2013/5/15/memory-allocators-101.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

Genius of our time

http://domleca.com/genius-of-our-time

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 17 comments

Chrome’s requestAutocomplete()

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/requestautocomplete

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

Mark 1 FORTH Computer

http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 9 comments

New Google+ is beautiful?

http://alexdong.com/google-plus-is-skin-deep/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 78 comments

Exploiting a Go Binary

http://codearcana.com/posts/2013/04/23/exploiting-a-go-binary.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Buys a Quantum Computer

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/google-buys-a-quantum-computer

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 56 comments

How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model

http://blog.cubehero.com/2013/05/15/how-to-automatically-choose-a-camera-viewing-angle-of-any-3d-model/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/550418/0e518fa2972b21c5/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Google+ Games is shutting down

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3123176?hl=en&ref_topic=1334138

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 109 comments

What I wish systems researchers would work on

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-i-wish-systems-researchers-would.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments

Andrew Mason at YC

http://smandrew.com/blog/2013/5/16/yf3qah4f8p7oxvehlj0ib93jol421o

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

F# on FreeBSD

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2013/05/13/f-on-freebsd.aspx

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/how-google-updated-android-without-releasing-version-4-3/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Kim Dotcom Granted New Zealand Supreme Court Appeal Over U.S. Evidence

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-supreme-court-appeal-over-u-s-evidence-130516/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Firefox OS puts a good $50 smartphone within reach

http://www.zdnet.com/firefox-os-puts-a-good-50-smartphone-within-reach-7000015212/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Reactor.js: simple reactive programming for Javascript

https://github.com/fynyky/reactor.js

13 years ago

★ 799 JavaScript MIT
84 upvotes – 31 comments

Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html#

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork'

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/15/24_year_old_ogilvy_china_employee_dies_from_overwork.php

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RubyMotion Application Framework

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/50523137515/introducing-promotion-a-full-featured-rubymotion

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Nintendo NES console in CSS

http://codepen.io/onediv/pen/AsDev

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

How Lean Domain Search's Brandable Domain Name Generation Algorithm works

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/blog/42-an-inside-look-at-lean-domain-search-s-brandable-domain-name-generation-algorithm

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: How do you have time for dates and gym when working for a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717151

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

Alternatives To Git Submodule: Git Subtree

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Zynga Ports Cocos2D-X to Emscripten

http://code.zynga.com/2013/05/zynga-ports-cocos2d-x-to-emscripten/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Upgrading to Sublime Text 3

http://harrywolff.com/upgrading-to-sublime-text-3/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

The Tragic Beauty of Google+

http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/the-tragic-beauty-of-google/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

Building A Full-Text Index In Javascript

http://garysieling.com/blog/building-a-full-text-index-in-javascript

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Google CEO Is Tired of Rivals, Laws, Wants to Start His Own Country

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/15/larry_page_io_keynote_google_ceo_blasts_microsoft_oracle_laws_and_the_media.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 73 comments

Commafeed: An Open Source Google Reader Clone

https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

13 years ago

★ 3.5k Java Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 24 comments

How we use BitTorrent to improve our design sharing workflow

https://medium.com/look-what-i-made/5ee6ae2b1dcc

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Argentines are now allowed to know the real rate of inflation

http://qz.com/84838/argentines-are-now-allowed-to-know-the-real-rate-of-inflation-thanks-to-their-courts/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

How often do iOS users update? - The Pareto Distribution

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2013/5/how-often-do-you-update%253F-%252D-the-pareto-principle

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments
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