top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-17

Creating Shazam in Java

http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/?

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 43 comments

Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million

http://www.chicagogrid.com/enterprise/cards-against-humanity-game-money/

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 163 comments

Bright Explosion on the Moon

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/16may_lunarimpact/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 61 comments

Fish shell 2.0

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/fish_shell.html

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 175 comments

Open source is not a war zone

http://sushee.no-ip.org/opensourceisnotawarzone.txt

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 92 comments

The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 126 comments

Welcome to Google Island

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 90 comments

Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

http://money.cnn.com/1999/01/28/technology/yahoo_a/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 116 comments

At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/at-google-conference-even-cameras-in-the-bathroom/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 179 comments

Capacitor plague

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

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 62 comments

Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ

https://twitter.com/guw/status/334793907625938944

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 128 comments

Meta: The Most Advanced Augmented Reality Interface

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/551975293/meta-the-most-advanced-augmented-reality-interface/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 83 comments

Coinpunk - Run your own Bitcoin wallet service

http://coinpunk.org

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 37 comments

Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/mac-malware-signed-with-apple-id-infects-activists-laptop/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 54 comments

Vim hall of honour

http://www.vim.org/sponsor/hall_of_honour.php

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21578041-containers-have-been-more-important-globalisation-freer-trade-humble

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Awk for AI? (1997)

http://www.wra1th.plus.com/awk/awkfri.txt

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

Label.css – an easy way to label DOM elements

http://usablica.github.io/label.css/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

$100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets

http://www.investinged.com/100-invested-in-100-1-lottery-tickets/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 122 comments

Inside the seedy underworld of spammers and phishers

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/inside-the-seedy-underworld-of-spammers-and-phishers/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 49 comments

EFF now accepting Bitcoin again

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Why I have left Samsung

http://dream-force.com/post/27437342468/i-left-samsung

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 152 comments

Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hacker-serving-5-year-sentence-invents-atm-add-on-to-prevent-theft/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 50 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/05/17/frameworks-round-5/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

Social login buttons aren't worth it

http://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-it/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever

http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-mint-15-most-ambitious-release-ever

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote

http://albertomoss.com/work/googleio2013

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Bookmarking is more complex than you think

http://dfernandez.me/articles/5_Bookmarking_is_much_more_complex_than_you_think/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

I have accepted a “part-time partner” role at Y Combinator

http://daltoncaldwell.com/y-combinator/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Source Code Typography

http://naildrivin5.com/blog/2013/05/17/source-code-typography.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Australian government accused of sneaking in web filter

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-accused-of-sneaking-in-web-filter-20130517-2jq3p.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Australian government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/aussie-government-tries-to-block-two-sites-takes-down-1200/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application

http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2013/05/17/how-we-built-ebays-first-node-js-application/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Source code example of the Shazam algorithm

http://dream-force.com/post/23691390320/shazam-in-java

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Hangouts Feature Emerges as a Bright Spot for Google+

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/google-hangouts-emerges-as-a-bright-spot/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 56 comments

Meteor on Windows

http://win.meteor.com

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Yahoo looking to acquire Tumblr?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584967-93/yahoo-tumblr-tie-up-in-the-works/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 60 comments

Rackspace launches “Fanatical Support for Developers”

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/rackspace-launches-fantatical-support-for-developers

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

Tomorrow's Eurovision final forecasted with Bayesian statistics

http://mewo2.com/nerdery/2013/05/17/eurovision-2013-final-predictions/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Data initialization in C++

http://woboq.com/blog/data-and-initialisation.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

US Lists Ukraine as a “Priority Foreign Country” for Trade Sanctions

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/16505323067/us-uses-special-301-to-bully-ukraine-likely-violating-wto.shtml

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Dynamic Cards Against Humanity cards based on Facebook data

https://deckepic.com

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

I thanked Rand Paul for his Internet Rights efforts lately. He replied.

http://camtyler.com/bs/rand-paul-on-cybersecurity

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 82 comments

Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part 2)

http://www.acloudtree.com/lions-and-tiger-and-op-codes-oh-my-hacking-java-bytecode-for-programmers-part2

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

When you shouldn't bother unit testing

http://invalid-arg.github.io/2013/05/16/when-you-shouldnt-test.html

13 years ago

44 upvotes – 42 comments

Ragebooter: ‘Legit’ DDoS Service, or Fed Backdoor?

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/ragebooter-legit-ddos-service-or-fed-backdoor/

13 years ago

43 upvotes – 13 comments
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