top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-03-03

Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-distortion-takes-its-toll-on-truth/

15 years ago

513 upvotes – 325 comments

Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

15 years ago

469 upvotes – 154 comments

The blind man who taught himself to see

http://www.mensjournal.com/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see/print/

15 years ago

388 upvotes – 84 comments

Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 106 comments

Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/03/microsoft-and-google-jointly-sue-geotag.html

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 67 comments

Pixel Perfect map of china

http://gz.o.cn/

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285594

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 83 comments

Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 32 comments

Hipmunk for the iPhone - here's how we built it

http://blog.hipmunk.com/hipmunk-for-iphone-post-mortem

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 35 comments

How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2799-how-an-illinois-rest-stop-inspired-a-web-page

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 24 comments

How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/03/03/thomas-jefferson-meetings/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 22 comments

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/07/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 78 comments

Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don’t Exist

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridiculous-lost-sales-they-dont-exist-says-minecraft-creator-110303/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 147 comments

Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Million Page Views A Month

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

Twitter Was Act One

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/04/jack-dorsey-201104

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Techmeme vs Hacker News

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/techmeme-vs-hacker-news.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 47 comments

A Rare Disagreement

http://www.marco.org/3627726252

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 90 comments

Build a CMS, no forms allowed

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_user_interface/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Evil.css: an evil stylesheet for injecting into unsuspecting users' webpages

https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css

15 years ago

★ 731 CSS
109 upvotes – 25 comments

GHC 7 is released. with LLVM, improved inliner, improved thread scheduler ...

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2011-March/022610.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments
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