top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-06

I would have hired Doug, but...

http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html

11 years ago

505 upvotes – 238 comments

Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 81 comments

PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web

http://pypyjs.org/

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 134 comments

The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies

http://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies/

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 81 comments

Racking Mac Pros

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

11 years ago

388 upvotes – 316 comments

First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016

https://www.oculus.com/blog/first-look-at-the-rift-shipping-q1-2016/

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 138 comments

Leaving Stripe

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 70 comments

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537301/spiders-ingest-nanotubes-then-weave-silk-reinforced-with-carbon/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 79 comments

Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/05/introducing-Google-Cloud-Bigtable.html

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 151 comments

Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/?utm_content=buffer7da00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 160 comments

I was an undercover Uber driver

http://citypaper.net/uberdriver/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 165 comments

Weave is kinda slow

http://www.generictestdomain.net/docker/weave/networking/stupidity/2015/04/05/weave-is-kinda-slow/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 157 comments

GitHub's down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497821

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 146 comments

MIT alumni in their 50s

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 151 comments

Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00031.html

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 113 comments

Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/05/lawyers-threaten-researcher-over-key-cloning-bug-in-high-security-lock/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497721

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 133 comments

Neural network chip built using memristors

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/neural-network-chip-built-using-memristors/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

IBM's Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607688

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: kiUi – Lightweight auto-layout stylable UI toolkit

http://novembermonk.github.io/kiui/article.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments
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