top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-29

Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

http://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html

13 years ago

643 upvotes – 148 comments

A new Gmail inbox

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html

13 years ago

424 upvotes – 305 comments

EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5

13 years ago

361 upvotes – 273 comments

React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces

http://facebook.github.io/react/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 112 comments

How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/197650/how-should-i-behave-as-a-developer-in-a-project-thats-headed-for-failure

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 156 comments

I Sold The Magazine, Too

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/29/sold-the-magazine

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 79 comments

Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on Windows 8 hardware

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/24869.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 167 comments

Reversal: Australian Govt picks ODF doc standard over Microsoft

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/29/reversal-australian-govt-picks-odf-doc-standard/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 41 comments

“This week marks the beginning of my 4th year at Facebook”

https://www.facebook.com/ry/posts/10151494199879822

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 105 comments

A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/05/terrifying-fascinating-timelapse-30-years-human-impact-earth-gifs/5540/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 145 comments

Mary Meeker's 2013 Internet Trends

http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 33 comments

How to Negotiate a Job Offer

http://blog.upstart.com/2013/05/how-to-negotiate-job-offer.html

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 104 comments

Elm at Prezi

http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/05/21/elm-at-prezi/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 100 comments

Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1824961&highlight=

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 92 comments

The declining value of the MS in Computer Science

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/953

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 124 comments

Plain English explanation of Big O? (2009)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

Why I’m Going to India

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Why-Im-Going-to-India

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 110 comments

Drupal.org compromised

https://drupal.org/news/130529SecurityUpdate

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 81 comments

How to Get a Job

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 127 comments

Goodbye SEOmoz. Hello Moz

http://moz.com/blog/goodbye-seomoz-hello-moz

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/exclusive-the-first-pictures-of-blood-from-a-10000-year-old-siberian-woolly-mammoth/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 50 comments

Building a Hacker News clone in Django - Part 1 (Screencast)

http://arunrocks.com/blog/2013/05/29/building-a-hacker-news-clone-in-django-part-1/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

Lead Bullets (2011)

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/10/26/lead-bullets/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

The new Python Cookbook is out

http://www.amazon.com/Python-Cookbook-David-Beazley/dp/1449340377/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Batavia school board disciplines teacher after Fifth Amendment survey flap

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130529/news/705299912/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 95 comments

How does our language shape the way we think? (2009)

http://www.edge.org/conversation/how-does-our-language-shape-the-way-we-think

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Sass Style Guide

http://css-tricks.com/sass-style-guide/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Challenge HN: Break my in-browser crypto for $1000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787498

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 152 comments

Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/unprecedented-e-mail-privacy-bill-sent-to-texas-governors-desk/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

10,000 Hours of Practice Won’t Make You an Expert

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/so-you-know-that-10000-hours-makes-an-expert-rule-bunk/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Distraction Free Reader/Writer

http://inkpen.in/edit/documentation

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Postgres Indexes – Expression/Functional Indexing

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/05/29/postgres-indexes-expression-or-functional-indexes/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Free Science Books

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AH3bzA4lwvVEJ%3Aphysicsdatabase.com%2Fbook-list-by-title%2F+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: AWS EC2 On-demand vs. Reserved Interactive Price Comparison

http://promptcloud.com/ec2-ondemand-vs-reserved-instance-pricing.php

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

AWS IAM Now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-iam-now-supports-amazon-facebook-and-google-identity-federation.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 0 comments

The tiny Instagram projector

http://www.getprojecteo.com/?utm_source=Projecteo+site+sign+ups&utm_campaign=cf223d797b-launch_email5_29_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7b9c6bc380-cf223d797b-72942813

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

Ember.js Getting Started Guide

http://emberjs.com/guides/getting-started/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Why Geeks Get Bullied (It's Not Necessarily for Being Geeks)

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/why-geeks-get-bullied-its-not-necessarily-for-being-geeks/272723/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 76 comments

Introducing Linode Managed

https://blog.linode.com/2013/05/29/introducing-linode-managed/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter and Other Popular Sites

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/howto-two-factor-authentication-twitter-and-around-web

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative?

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/f7fcb3b786b1

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 67 comments

How Good Is Amazon's Route 53 Latency Based Routing?

http://openmymind.net/How-Good-Is-Amazons-Route-53-Latency-Based-Routing/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Justine Bateman Is a College Freshman Studying Programming

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/justine-bateman-is-a-college-freshman-and-blogging-about-it-174435344.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

OHM2013 - a 5 day hacker/maker camp in The Netherlands

https://ohm2013.org/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

US Secret Service rumbles into action against Bitcoin facilitators

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/05/us-secret-service-rumbles-into-action-against-bitcoin-facilitators/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/27/news/portland/south-portland-doctor-stops-accepting-insurance-posts-prices-online/?ref=relatedSidebar

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Apple’s Tim Cook: The Full D11 Interview [video]

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/apples-tim-cook-the-full-d11-interview-video/?

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 53 comments
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