top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-23

Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging

13 years ago

677 upvotes – 196 comments

I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/i-was-struck-by-lightning-yesterday-and-boy-am-i-sore/

13 years ago

448 upvotes – 258 comments

Lying Microsoft Advertising

http://www.curi.us/1571-lying-microsoft-advertising

13 years ago

397 upvotes – 246 comments

Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/native-level-performance-on-the-web-a-brief-examination-of-asm-js/

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 200 comments

How to work remotely as a software developer

http://markcampbell.me/tutorial/2013/05/23/how-to-work-remotely.html

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 111 comments

Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/05/22/lessons-learned-kicking-off-an-angularjs-project/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 132 comments

Flickr's redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing

http://danwin.com/2013/05/flickr-redesign-a-photo-service-worth-sharing/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 108 comments

Free private Github repos for students and edu people

https://github.com/edu

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 162 comments

Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-May/036276.html

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 107 comments

SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O

http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_17.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 80 comments

Baby's life saved with 3-D printed device that restored his breathing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522180102.htm

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 38 comments

Trying out this Go thing at Disqus

http://blog.disqus.com/post/51155103801/trying-out-this-go-thing

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 192 comments

Kiera Wilmot is going to Space Camp

http://abcnews.go.com/US/cleared-charges-honor-student-space-camp/story?id=19236561

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 presentation

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/05/23/selling-your-software-to-businesses-twiliocon-2012-presentation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=selling-your-software-to-businesses-twiliocon-2012-presentation

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 25 comments

Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

http://gooengine.com/demofiles/pearl-boy/index.html

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 80 comments

The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/05/23/the-terrifying-rise-of-the-political-entrepreneur/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 135 comments

An App Platform for Dumb Phones

http://www.dumbsto.re/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 47 comments

The People of Postgres: Tom Lane

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/b6f105889466

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 12 comments

Haskell in Production: 12 Months Building ApiEngine

http://mth.io/talks/haskell-in-production/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

Google Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/google-x-acquires-makani-power-and-its-airborne-wind-turbines/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 41 comments

Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/05/23/ubiquity/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 87 comments

Designing blogs for readers

http://mattgemmell.com/2013/05/22/designing-blogs-for-readers/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros

http://jeditoolkit.com/try-wisp/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Inside Google's Secret Lab

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/118812-inside-googles-secret-lab

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Excel and SQL

https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/5/23/Excel_and_sql/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 65 comments

Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/quantum-linked-photons/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Interview with a Blackhat (Part 3/3)

http://blog.whitehatsec.com/interview-with-a-blackhat-part-3/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

IPv6 address space layout best practices

http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/q/119/231

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Why we're building Loom

http://blog.loom.com/why-were-building-loom/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 83 comments

Star Trek, tech companies, and the death of futurism in cinema

https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/7e7dc993b4fd

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 123 comments

Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/05/volkswagen-xl1-driven/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What's the most creative use of IFTTT you've seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5755879

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/22/how-google-plans-to-rule-the-computing-world-through-chrome/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 98 comments

Students are the victims and culprits of India’s broken higher education system

http://qz.com/86903/students-are-the-victims-and-culprits-of-indias-broken-higher-education-system/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 69 comments

How to make wealth (2004)

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html#f5n

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba (Part 2)

http://continuum.io/blog/numba_performance

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/05/technology-and-politics

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 66 comments

Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-to-google-twitter-facebook-i-own-security-patent-work-with-me-130523/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 83 comments

Tap Into Y Combinator's Contrarian Thinking

http://www.inc.com/garry-tan/y-combinator-marketplaces-contrarian-thinking.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Find the email address of any GitHub user

https://github.com/hodgesmr/FindGitHubEmail/

13 years ago

★ 198 Shell MIT
64 upvotes – 37 comments

PHP Weekly improvements

http://www.phpweekly.com/archive/latest.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 59 comments

Kim Dotcom has a patent on 2-step authentication

https://www.google.com/patents/US6078908

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/world/asia/in-china-hacking-has-widespread-acceptance.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Lyft Is Doing 30,000 Rides A Week, Raises $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/lyft-a16z/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 56 comments

Free storyboard illustrations

http://dribbble.com/shots/1083617-430-FREE-storyboard-illustrations

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/loom-is-building-a-better-icloud/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/yahoo-acquires-gaming-platform-startup-playerscale/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

The Economics of The Formula One Grand Prix of Monaco

http://smartasset.com/blog/news/the-economics-of-the-formula-one-grand-prix-of-monaco/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Now they have two problems

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1653418#

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments
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