top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-01

Natalie Portman - Scientist

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?ref=natalieportman

15 years ago

388 upvotes – 164 comments

Matt Blaze: How ACM and IEEE Shake Down Science

http://www.crypto.com/blog/copywrongs

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 64 comments

Hiding Nobel prizes in plain sight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia#History

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 52 comments

70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-socially-acceptable-110228/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 181 comments

The Redis Manifesto

http://antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 26 comments

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm#

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 86 comments

Lists of must see TED-talks

http://www.quora.com/TED-Talks/What-are-some-must-see-TED-talks

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 24 comments

ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/01/shoefitr-the-company-amazon-must-buy-immediately/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

http://fulltextrssfeed.com/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 72 comments

How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search

http://www.inc.com/articles/2011/03/how-19-year-old-daniel-gross-is-taking-on-google-with-greplin.html

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 64 comments

JavaScript and URLs

http://shiflett.org/blog/2011/feb/javascript-and-urls

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 69 comments

The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/the_rise_and_rise_of_node_dot_js/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 63 comments

The Origin of Unix Pipes

http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/what-every-entrepreneur-could-learn-from-justin-bieber/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 31 comments

Picking a fight with an 800 lb gorilla, startup marketing

http://www.wepay.com/blog/2011/02/28/picking-a-fight-with-an-800-pound-gorilla/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In Dotcloud (YC S10)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/dotcloud/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer

http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=263

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 112 comments

Dirty Percent

http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

When Smart People are Bad Employees

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/01/04/when-smart-people-are-bad-employees/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-programming-matters.html#

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Adding Millions To Your Valuation Using SEO

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/adding-millions-to-your-valuation-using-seo/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

TellFi (YC W11) Is Google Voice For Companies

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/tellfi/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Who's hiring interns?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273865

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 83 comments

IPhone Needs a New Home

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2009/09/22/iphone-needs-a-new-home/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 71 comments

The Wristwatch Looks For a New Use

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/the-wristwatch-looks-for-a-new-use/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Gmail back soon for everyone

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-everyone.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 50 comments

Teaching programming languages: a novel approach

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-teach-pl-post-linnaean/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Anatomy of long sales letter

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/long-sales-letter-copywriting/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Free Computer Science books online.

http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/computer-science.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

UserVoice launches Helpdesk We want to be the only customer facing tool you need

http://blog.uservoice.com/entries/introducing-uservoice-helpdesk-a-support-tool-that-doesnt-suck

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Rid yourself of long email threads with micromobs

http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/micromobs/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

http://cloud9ide.com

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 52 comments

How Your Coffee Mug Controls Your Feelings (& What You Can Do About It)

http://johnnyholland.org/2011/03/01/how-your-coffee-mug-controls-your-feelings-what-you-can-do-about-it/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Clojure Conj 2011 Nov 10-12 in Durham, NC

http://www.clojure-conj.org/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook launches overhauled comment system

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-rolls-out-overhauled-comments-system-try-them-now-on-techcrunch/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

Hybrid Incremental MySQL Backups

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/hybrid-incremental-mysql-backups/10150098033318920

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

JQuery plugin dynamically changes your images to placeholder kittens

https://github.com/lsemel/jquery-placekitten

15 years ago

★ 51 JavaScript MIT
56 upvotes – 18 comments

Hipmunk (YC S10) Brings a Little Ecstasy to Hotel Search and Booking

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hipmunk_now_lets_you_search_for_hotels_sorted_by_e.php

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Programming Amazon EC2

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449393687

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Google acquires Zynamics

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/google-buys-security-analytics-startup-zynamics/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Facebook Acquires Beluga

http://belugapods.com/fb

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Hacker Monthly Issue #10 - March 2011

http://hackermonthly.com/issue-10.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

Understanding the node.js event loop

http://blog.mixu.net/2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

Creator Of Angry Birds’ Physics Engine Calls Out Rovio For Not Giving Him Credit

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/02/28/creator-of-angry-birds-physics-engine-calls-out-rovio-for-not-giving-him-credit/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

SICP Video Lectures by Hal Abelman and Gerald Sussman

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Still Committing Like Crazy

https://github.com/blog/802-still-committing-like-crazy

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Using prescription stimulants as study aids

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Ban-on-Brain-Boosting-Drugs/126523/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

The Irken Language

http://www.nightmare.com/rushing/irken/irken/lang.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

TellFi (YC W11) Helps Small Businesses Sound Professional on the Phone

http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110228/tellfi-helps-small-businesses-sound-professional-on-the-phone/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

Sold my dipshit company for $5m, where to invest?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275643

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 61 comments

Should I abandon VB.Net?

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/ProfessionalDevelopment/should-i-abandon-vb-net

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 49 comments

Paid to Eat Pancakes: The Truth about “Passions”

http://nerdgap.com/paid-to-eat-pancakes-the-truth-about-passions/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 19 comments
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