top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-03

The Facebook experiment has failed

https://medium.com/a-programmers-tale/f7b8c66109ea

13 years ago

612 upvotes – 284 comments

Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices

http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/

13 years ago

408 upvotes – 285 comments

Startup advice

http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 105 comments

R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/atul-chitnis-297/

13 years ago

303 upvotes – 45 comments

“Accounts merged and now my files are gone”

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/drive/xUgB4p1I2QY

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 111 comments

The Cost of an ACL Injury

http://calv.info/the-cost-of-an-acl/

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 174 comments

Removing garbage collection from the Rust language

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 130 comments

Tetris Printer Algorithm

http://meatfighter.com/tetrisprinteralgorithm/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 15 comments

Negative SEO: Looking for Answers from Google

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2272092/Google-Confirms-Negative-SEO-Exists

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 162 comments

The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_didnt_beat_japan_nuclear_world_war_ii?page=0,0

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 215 comments

Visual Studio 2013

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 190 comments

QR Code in shopping cart handle

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26268/qr-code-in-shopping-cart-handle#

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 52 comments

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011)

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/#

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 58 comments

Foxconn Joins the Firefox OS Eco-System

https://blog.mozilla.org/ligong/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-the-firefox-os-eco-system/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 73 comments

What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)

http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 120 comments

Numenta releases brain-derived learning algorithm package NuPIC

http://numenta.org/news/2013/06/03/introducing-nupic.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 59 comments

Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22729780

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 138 comments

Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier

http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2013/06/switched-away-from-app-engine-couldnt-be-happier

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Some will always say you're wrong

http://sivers.org/wrong

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 26 comments

Making ePaper easy to use for developers

http://repaper.org/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Reveal – an iOS runtime inspection tool

http://revealapp.com

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

Vine for Android

http://www.vine.co/blog/vine-for-android

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

Screensiz.es – reference chart for device screen sizes

http://screensiz.es

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

My Son Won't Do His Homework (2007)

http://www.talentism.com/business_talent/2007/06/my_son_wont_do_.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 119 comments

Python's Hardest Problem (2012)

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/03/31/pythons-hardest-problem/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Docker 0.4.0 release note

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.4.0-release-note,-June-3-2013

13 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0
97 upvotes – 51 comments

OccupyGezi raises funds for full page ad

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action-occupygezi-for-the-world--33

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Injecting malware into iOS devices via malicious chargers

http://www.blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Lau

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Docker : An Interview With Solomon Hykes

http://www.activestate.com/blog/2013/06/solomon-hykes-explains-docker

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Foxconn and Mozilla are collaborating to develop 5 devices, including a tablet

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/06/03/foxconn-and-mozilla-are-collaborating-to-develop-5-devices-for-oems-including-a-tablet/?utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_a0Yhk&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

Ignore the news

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/297e47e6f78b

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Server-side HTML vs. JS Widgets vs. Single-Page Web Apps

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2013/05/frontend-architectures-server-side-html.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Never-Before-Seen Alien Planet Imaged Directly in New Photo

http://www.space.com/21395-alien-planet-direct-image.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

CEO Update

http://blog.zynga.com/2013/06/03/ceo-update-4/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10k x the energy density of gas

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

Review of Firefox OS and Mozilla Keon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/03/my_month_with_firefox_os/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Fairphone: Android phone that puts social values first

http://www.fairphone.com

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments

Some things I've learnt about public speaking

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/06/some-things-ive-learnt-about-public.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

DNSimple target of DDoS attack

https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/341538008941613056

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

The Hidden Costs of Starting a Company

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/the-hidden-costs-of-starting-a-company/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

New college grads: Don’t sell your time for a living

http://andrewchen.co/2013/06/03/new-college-grads-dont-sell-your-time-for-a-living/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Relative Line Numbers in Vim

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2012/relative-line-numbers-in-vim-for-super-fast-movement/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Android Will Become The Most Popular App Platform within Months

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-will-beat-apple-in-apps-2013-6

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Where is all the Node.js malware?

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/blogs/sss/2013/04/02/why-isnt-there-any-nodejs-malware/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Does Pinterest own the word “pin”?

http://niftylettuce.com/posts/does-pinterest-own-the-word-pin/#

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments
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