top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-20

Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/50934634700/your-world-in-full-resolution

13 years ago

743 upvotes – 359 comments

The One-Person Product

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product

13 years ago

666 upvotes – 103 comments

Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 217 comments

Statistical Formulas For Programmers

http://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-formulas-for-programmers.html

13 years ago

395 upvotes – 64 comments

The biggest merger you didn't hear about today

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/20/the-biggest-merger-you-didnt-hear-about-today/?iid=HP_River

13 years ago

377 upvotes – 104 comments

My one talk with Marissa Mayer

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/myOneTalkWithMarissaMayer

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

http://leanstack.io/cloudstacks/

13 years ago

261 upvotes – 87 comments

Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquire-tumblr-120000116.html

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 155 comments

What happens after Yahoo acquires you (2011)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2777-what-happens-after-yahoo-acquires-you

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 112 comments

Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 163 comments

Modern GPU

http://nvlabs.github.io/moderngpu/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 28 comments

Yahoo aquires Tumblr

http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/50902274591/im-delighted-to-announce-that-weve-reached-an

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 71 comments

Reply to Aphyr attack on Redis Sentinel

http://antirez.com/news/55

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 40 comments

Native equivalents of jQuery functions

http://www.leebrimelow.com/native-methods-jquery/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 93 comments

The feds are making it hurt in every way for Weev, but for what?

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-feds-are-making-it-hurt-in-every-way-for-weev-but-for-what

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 130 comments

The Next Facebook — Musings About Text Boxes

https://medium.com/musings-about-text-boxes/8157c364d26a

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 69 comments

Call me maybe: final thoughts

http://aphyr.com/posts/286-call-me-maybe-final-thoughts

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 13 comments

Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti#readme

13 years ago

★ 8.4k Python MIT
114 upvotes – 16 comments

Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)

http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

https://squareup.com/cash

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 75 comments

Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/finnish-meego-startup-jolla-reveals-first-phone-hardware-with-customisable-shells-e399-price-tag-coming-at-years-end/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/19/what-nikola-tesla-vs-vcs-video-says-about-the-state-of-silicon-valley/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

CSS Tube Map

http://www.csstubemap.co.uk/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

The Open Source Report Card: Dynamic progress reports for Github developers

http://osrc.dfm.io/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

If a mathematician wants to cross a road

http://blog.matthen.com/post/50908501869/if-a-mathematician-wants-to-cross-a-road-they

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

How Did Einstein Think?

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_think/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 63 comments

Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower

http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/19/inside-atts-83gbhour-mobile-cell-tower-or-why-your-iphone-no-longer-drops-out-at-huge-events/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

Facebook, One Year Later

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/in-facebook-we-trust-what-really-happened-behind-the-biggest-ipo-flop-of-our-time/275987/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Don't Startups Get Their Users To Invest In Them?

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/05/why-dont-startups-get-their-users-to/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

Seamless and GrubHub Announce Merger

http://press.grubhub.com/2013-05-20-Seamless-and-GrubHub-Announce-Merger

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token

http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/20/a-better-way-to-manage-the-rails-secret-token/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Customers won't give you money unless you ask

http://blog.downie.com.au/customers-wont-give-you-money-unless-you-ask

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of Real Programming

http://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Tesla's fight with America's car dealers

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/20/autos/telsa-car-dealers/index.html?iid=Lead

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 87 comments

Sponsor Me, If You Will

http://malone.cc/sponsor-me-if-you-will/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/why-2-4ghz-chasing-wireless-history?c=activity

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

How to Hire a Product Manager

https://www.blossom.io/blog/2013/05/20/how-to-hire-a-product-manager.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Margins on website development are shrinking

http://www.chrishardie.com/2013/05/end-of-website-development/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: gif.js - Fast GIF encoder using web workers

http://jnordberg.github.io/gif.js/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Tumblr will be joining Yahoo

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/50902268806/news

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Solving the Research Integrity Crisis

http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2013/05/solving-the-research-integrity-crisis/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

Minbox - a faster workflow for sending files

https://minbox.com/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: The WordPress Query Generator, create WP loops in plain English

http://wpquerygenerator.com/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 36 comments

EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/09430123119/eu-commission-sued-refusing-to-reveal-trade-agreement-documents-they-shared-with-lobbyists.shtml

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Samsung swipes 95 percent of total industry profits earned from Android phones

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-collected-95-percent-of-q1-2013-android-profits/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

The Knives of Class Warfare Turn Towards Tech’s Plutocrats

http://techonomy.com/2013/05/the-knives-of-class-warfare-turn-towards-techs-plutocrats/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Steve Jobs capped many of the teams in Cupertino

http://minimalmac.com/post/50875581428/unknowable-rands-in-repose

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments
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