top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-02

Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

http://www.winrumors.com/man-upgrades-windows-1-0-to-windows-7-via-every-other-windows-versions/

15 years ago

526 upvotes – 115 comments

Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

http://www.google.com/notaurl

15 years ago

313 upvotes – 106 comments

The mother of all Android malware has arrived

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/01/the-mother-of-all-android-malware-has-arrived-stolen-apps-released-to-the-market-that-root-your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 128 comments

A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff

http://www.centernetworks.com/mahalo-reduces-headcount-google-algo-change

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 117 comments

Someone is stealing your life (1990)

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/M2/ventura.html

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 157 comments

A Built-in Web Server For PHP

http://wiki.php.net/rfc/builtinwebserver

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 95 comments

Your IP. In JSON

http://jsonip.com/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 65 comments

The Death of Adventure Games

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

37Signals website in 2000 when they had 4 people and no DHH

http://37signals.com/00

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

Inside the Y Combinator office

http://areallybadidea.com/inside-the-y-combinator-office

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 34 comments

You won't find FSF on Facebook

http://www.fsf.org/facebook

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

http://www.gtasker.com/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

IPad 2 Official Specs

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 154 comments

Live from Apple's iPad 2 event

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-event/?sort=newest&refresh=60

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 194 comments

The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

The Android Developers Union

http://www.andevuni.org/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

Exciting developments in GNU Radio

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/exciting-developments-in-gnu-radio

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Bill Gates on why the brilliant Khan Academy is a force of social change

http://curiositycounts.com/post/3608748427/bill-gates-on-why-the-brilliant-khan-academy-is-a

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Steve Jobs Takes The Stage At iPad 2 Event

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/amidst-medical-leave-steve-jobs-takes-the-stage-at-ipad-2-event-to-a-standing-ovation/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

The Experience Economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15brooks.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1299081705-gh1OkXKP5ibS2FfZ9kz2Eg

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

J Source to be released under GPL

http://old.nabble.com/J-Source-GPL-td31045068s24193.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Turning into a hacker aged 27

http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/turning-into-a-hacker-aged-27/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 78 comments

Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

How Germany Became the China of Europe

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2053595,00.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 124 comments

Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt?

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 74 comments

Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don’t Always Win)

http://software-carpentry.org/2011/03/tuple-spaces-or-good-ideas-dont-always-win/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Minecraft creators’ next project is a strategy game: Scrolls

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/minecraft-creators-next-project-is-a-strategy-game-scrolls

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Conway's Game of Life in HTML5 canvas

http://www.julianpulgarin.com/canvaslife/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Chicken - Portable, Efficient C Compiler for the Scheme Programming Language

http://www.call-cc.org/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Mozilla Firefox 4 will be our last big release

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/365602/mozilla-firefox-4-will-be-our-last-big-release

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Three Routes to Spaghetti-Free Javascript

http://zef.me/3715/three-routes-to-spaghetti-free-javascript

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

DNS has grown into an enormously complex system

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1242499

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Want to back an entrepreneur? Best bet is to go for old

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/economics/want-to-back-an-entrepreneur-best-bet-is-to-go-for-old

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Scala at Twitter

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/kallen-scala-twitter

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Rails 3.0.5 broke my routes and kicked my dog

http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/rails-3-0-5-broke-my-routes-and-kicked-my-dog-1076.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/now-open-aws-region-in-tokyo.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

On pivoting: how we're trying to deal with the unintended use of our product

http://blog.quplo.com/2011/03/the-influence-of-unintended-use/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Cardpool (YC W10) Launches One Gift Card To Rule Them All

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/cardpool-launches-one-gift-card-to-rule-them-all/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

Examples of successful series-A pitch decks

http://www.quora.com/Venture-Investor-Pitches/Where-can-I-find-examples-of-successful-series-A-pitch-decks?srid=3aT

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments

The iPod of 2004

http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/03/02/the-ipod-of-2004/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

How DuckDuckGo is fighting an 800 lb gorilla (Video interview with Founder)

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/02/how-duckduckgo-is-fighting-an-800-lb-gorilla-video-interview-with-founder/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Big in Japan: Why it's Worth Entering the World’s #3 Market

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/big-in-japan-enter-the-worlds-3-market-for-cheap/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Introducing Union Station: our web app performance monitoring service

http://blog.phusion.nl/2011/03/02/introducing-union-station-our-web-app-performance-monitoring-and-behavior-analysis-service-now-in-open-beta/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

http://tweetperview.com/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 53 comments

Is the Boston technology scene living in the past?

http://namesake.com/conversation/906efafa-44f8-11e0-814c-12313f014066

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: HipsterVision.org - funky geolocation instagram image search

http://hipstervision.org

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 16 comments

Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/opinion/02culbert.html?src=twrhp

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 31 comments

Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/treehouse-deadpool/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments
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