top 50% 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

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

Build a CMS, no forms allowed

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

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 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

Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2011-03/02/gq-comment-ed-vaizey-internet-neutrality-censorship-bt-virgin

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 47 comments

What's New in Sinatra 1.2?

http://www.sinatrarb.com/2011/03/03/sinatra-1.2.0.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

An 'athletic body' doesn't always look the same.

http://ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/athletic-body-diversity-reference-for-artists/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/iPad-2-wasnt-Apples-big-March-2nd-announcement/1299175274

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 52 comments

The Apple Strategy Tax

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/03/the-apple-strategy-tax.ars

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Firefox 4 Web Demos: announcing Web O’ Wonder

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/webowonder/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Motorola Xoom a huge disappointment

http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2011/03/motorola-xoom-huge-disappointment.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

The Gaiman Principle: piracy is advertising & why Ramen Music encourages sharing

http://blog.ramenmusic.com/post/3620247918/the-gaiman-principle-piracy-is-advertising-and-why

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

Jwz's Tent of Doom at Netscape in 1995

http://www.jwz.org/tent-of-doom/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Custora (YC W11) Helps Businesses Battle Churn

http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2011/03/yc-startup-custora-helps-busin.php

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Help rebuild Christchurch

http://99designs.com/christchurch

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/square-now-processing-1-million-in-mobile-payments-per-day/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Disney acquires gaming engine startup to build HTML5 games outside of App stores

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/disney-acquires-gaming-engine-startup-to-build-html5-games-outside-of-app-stores/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

BlackBerry Messenger will launch on Android and iOS

http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/03/exclusive-blackberry-messenger-will-launch-on-android-and-ios/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

Android Becomes Number One in U.S. Smartphone Market Share

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

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Google Profiles just got updated

http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2011/03/decide-what-world-sees-when-it-searches.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4211

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code release

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Invite to try fiesta.cc - effortless mailing lists

https://fiesta.cc/?i=1&s=1drW1z%7CdXHybwS-czt8LYsWHcyBIoHupps

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments

Build me a JIT as fast as you can… [Squeak COG VM]

http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2011/03/01/build-me-a-jit-as-fast-as-you-can/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Thing (listening device)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments
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