top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-22

Induction powered LED lit engagement ring

http://www.kokes.net/projectlonghaul/projectlonghaul.htm

13 years ago

771 upvotes – 76 comments

Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-repays-department-energy-loan-nine-years-early

13 years ago

670 upvotes – 180 comments

Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation

http://qz.com/87184/the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-win-a-hard-nosed-negotiation/

13 years ago

499 upvotes – 174 comments

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 390 comments

Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job

https://medium.com/tech-talk/d5f8051afce2

13 years ago

445 upvotes – 236 comments

Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github

https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 85 comments

GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

http://geoguessr.com/

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: WideArea – an expandable textarea

http://usablica.github.io/widearea/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 66 comments

My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint

https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/9863d528780c193cd2aead22264318aaa73ea418

13 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
188 upvotes – 92 comments

Teenager facing terrorism charges for something he posted on Facebook

http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 85 comments

Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/05/whey-too-much-greek-yogurts-dark-side/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 122 comments

How My Mom Thinks Search Engines Work

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-my-mom-thinks-search-engines-work

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 49 comments

UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

http://www.unqlite.org

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

Indie developers cannot self-publish on Xbox One

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355306/indie-developers-cannot-self-publish-on-xbox-one

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 103 comments

An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/21/an-unheralded-breakthrough-the-rosetta-stone-of-mathematics/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-are-less-beautiful-than-you-think

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (2011)

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/are-current-web-design-trends-pushing-us-back-to-1999/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 85 comments

The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/caleatwo

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

Stop Using Linked Lists

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/22/strategy-stop-using-linked-lists.html?utm_source=feedly

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 137 comments

Google’s “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome

http://searchengineland.com/googles-impressive-conversational-search-goes-live-on-chrome-160445

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 71 comments

Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/05/dart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

https://www.cookening.com

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 107 comments

Vermont Attorney General Sues Patent Troll

http://greenmountainip.com/breaking-vermont-attorney-general-sues-patent-troll/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Xbox One forces gamers to pay for games borrowed from friends

http://www.osnews.com/story/27056/Xbox_One_forces_gamers_to_pay_for_games_borrowed_from_friends

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6972/xbox-one-hardware-compared-to-playstation-4

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Follow the journey of three beginners who are learning to code

http://www.codelearn.org/learn-ruby-on-rails

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

A Change to Google Code Download Service

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

FreedomHTML

http://freedomhtml.org/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

Meet Runscope

http://blog.runscope.com/posts/meet-runscope

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010)

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223#

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 88 comments

Takipi – Java debugging reinvented

http://www.takipi.com/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong

http://blog.kaelig.fr/post/51078221503/apple-is-using-sass-and-theyre-doing-it-wrong

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Go Replace - simple and fast search and replace tool for command line

http://solovyov.net/en/2013/goreplace/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 63 comments

New Kinect will sense more detail, heartbeat and minuscule shifts

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/new-kinect-is-rocket-science-level-stuff-says-microsoft-1151803

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: A site for teaming up designers and developers on short projects

http://analoghq.com

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Motorola beats attorney-owned patent company at trial over Bluetooth

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/motorola-beats-attorney-owned-patent-company-at-trial-over-bluetooth/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Know Thy Java Object Memory Layout

http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.sg/2013/05/know-thy-java-object-memory-layout.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

You Can Now Call Into Google+ From Regular Phones

http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/05/you-can-now-call-into-google-from-regular-phones-google-connects-google-voice-to-hangouts.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Student's self-driving car tech wins Intel science fair

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/students-self-driving-car-tech-wins-intel-science-fair-1C9977186

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Linus as one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub

http://osrc.dfm.io/torvalds

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 67 comments

Plan 9 Coding Conventions for C

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/6/style

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 65 comments

Technology Radar May 2013

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Getting started with login verification

https://blog.twitter.com/2013/getting-started-login-verification

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

The Great Google Goat Rodeo

http://blog.markwunsch.com/post/50588412660/on-google

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

You Are More Influential Than You Think You Are

http://jayshah.me/blog/facebook-anayltics-you-are-more-influential-than-you-think-you-are

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

An Honor for the Creator of the GIF

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-creator-of-the-gif/?smid=tw-nytimes

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

Instacart expands its grocery delivery service to Oakland and Berkeley

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/22/instacart-expands-its-grocery-delivery-service-to-oakland-and-berkeley-at-last/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments
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