top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-21

Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

https://kkinder.com/2013/05/21/leaving-googles-silo-alternatives-to-gmail-talk-calendar-and-more/

13 years ago

506 upvotes – 317 comments

Hacker News is depressing

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

13 years ago

463 upvotes – 378 comments

The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down

https://medium.com/meta/503b9c22080b/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 124 comments

Soylent Campaign

https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

13 years ago

352 upvotes – 582 comments

New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in seconds

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484284472/windcatcher-inflates-in-seconds-with-no-power-or-p

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 122 comments

Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo

https://dukgo.com/blog/xmpp-services-at-duckduckgo

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 135 comments

Pricing Principles

http://insideintercom.io/four-pricing-principals-to-never-forget/

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 59 comments

Cancer and Startups

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/05/20/cancer-and-startups/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 55 comments

NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585377-93/ny-official-airbnb-stay-illegal-host-fined-%242400/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 265 comments

Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age

https://medium.com/the-peer-society/410c644cebe4

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 139 comments

Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phantomjs

https://github.com/niwibe/phantompy

13 years ago

★ 612 C++ BSD-3-Clause
171 upvotes – 45 comments

Go 1.1 performance improvements

http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/21/go-1-1-performance-improvements

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 42 comments

An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales

http://blog.asmartbear.com/selling-ebook.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 97 comments

Vim 7.3.1000

http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.1000

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 48 comments

Memcached turns 10 years old today

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/gimme-the-cache-memcached-turns-10-years-old-today/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Surveillance and the Internet of Things

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/05/the_eyes_and_ea.html

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

The NewsBlur Redesign

http://blog.newsblur.com/post/50689286246/the-newsblur-redesign

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

The Firing Offense

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Firing-Offense.aspx

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 83 comments

Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/21/heres-your-new-xbox-one-microsofts-all-in-one-home-entertainment-system/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 152 comments

Call Congress today to support HR 1892, "The Unlocking Technology Act"

http://fixthedmca.org/unlocking-technology-act.html?call=1

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Raspberry Pi Laptop

http://raspberry.io/projects/view/raspberry-pi-laptop/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/firefox-developer-tool-features-for-firefox-23/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

Starters Guide to iOS Design

http://taybenlor.com/2013/05/21/designing-for-ios.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge

http://www.fastcompany.com/3009953/where-are-they-now/airbnb-illegal-in-new-york-rules-judge?utm_source=facebook

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Union Square gets 5,000% return on Tumblr

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130521/TECHNOLOGY/130529969

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

Nintendo parodies Kickstarter

http://gameandwario.nintendo.com/crowdfarter/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Store files in your Flickr account

https://github.com/ricardobeat/filr

13 years ago

★ 309 CoffeeScript
104 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: My new homepage

http://awaxman.com

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 80 comments

Porting to Python 3 Redux

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

2010 Unibody Macbook schematic [pdf]

http://fast.partsdirect.ru/docs/models/19282_051-7537%20M97.pdf

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Kickstarter Fulfillment

http://teelaunch.com/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

https://gpgtools.org/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

NASA grants $125K to create a prototype of a universal food synthesizer

http://qz.com/86685/the-audacious-plan-to-end-hunger-with-3-d-printed-food/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Google drops XMPP support

http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2013/05/hangouts-wont-hangout-with-other.html?m=1

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/introducing-awsbox-the-diy-paas-for-node-js-a-node-js-holiday-season-part-12/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Learn Git Branching

http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/index.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Arduino Yún – combining Arduino with Linux

http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/05/18/welcome-arduino-yun-the-first-member-of-a-series-of-wifi-products-combining-arduino-with-linux

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Attend a Conference

http://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-attend-a-conference/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Why do professional photographers charge so much?

http://www.modelmayhem.com/education/photography/291-why-do-professional-photographers-charge-so-much

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 107 comments

Xbox One Revealed

http://news.xbox.com/2013/05/xbox-reveal-xbox-one-revealed

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 91 comments

IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/05/21/ibms-watson-now-a-customer-service-agent-coming-to-smartphones-soon/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

The Weakest Link Is You

https://medium.com/tech-talk/280c753b1145

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/mit-scholars-1949-essay-on-machine-age-is-found.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

A Virtual Weimar: Hyperinflation in a Video Game World

http://mises.org/daily/6435/A-Virtual-Weimar-Hyperinflation-in-a-Video-Game-World

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Lisp Prolog and Evolution

http://blog.samibadawi.com/2013/05/lisp-prolog-and-evolution.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Yahoo Stock Highest Since May, 2008

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1368711000000&chddm=977805&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ%3AYHOO&ntsp=0&fct=big&ei=xriaUYC7FqaelgOsWw

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/opera-14-for-android-is-out

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

Laid-back and Passionate

http://vesess.com/laid-back-and-passionate/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Google shows developers how to hack Glass and run Ubuntu

http://tech2.in.com/news/linux/google-shows-developers-how-to-hack-glass-and-run-ubuntu/873620

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Sony stock price spikes up 9% after Microsoft's Xbox One presentation

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASNE

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 30 comments

Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hub/reveal?hn=1

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 88 comments

Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit

https://github.com/meltingice/flickr-store

13 years ago

★ 272 Ruby MIT
59 upvotes – 47 comments

The Pricing Trilogy

http://sachagreif.com/the-pricing-trilogy/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Remember: your git commit email is public

http://theflyingdeveloper.com/your-git-commit-email-is-public

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Paperkey - backup your GnuPG secret key on a piece of paper

http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

One-Time Pad reinvented to make electronic copying impossible

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515016/one-time-pad-reinvented-to-make-electronic-copying-impossible/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

Authority

http://nathanbarry.com/authority

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments
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