top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-04

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie/print/

15 years ago

592 upvotes – 353 comments

Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.

http://ie6countdown.com/

15 years ago

496 upvotes – 165 comments

IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing

http://statichtml.com/2011/ie6-countdown-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.html

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 143 comments

The Chair

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

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 180 comments

Hardest captcha ever?

http://random.irb.hr/signup.php

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 120 comments

Libya turns off its internet: this time it's a flatline

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=LY&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1299014407973&ced=1299241800000

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2290180

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 30 comments

Your own company? You can do it

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Your+own+company,+You+can+do+it

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 45 comments

Google demos driverless cars

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/googles-self-driving-cars-take-ted-attendees-for-a-wild-ride/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 114 comments

Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anyone Who Visited GeoHot Site

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/geohot-site-unmasking/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 85 comments

Avoiding a transit of the United States

http://wikitravel.org/en/Avoiding_a_transit_of_the_United_States

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 92 comments

Procrastination and Perfectionism

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/light/perfectionism.php

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

How to DOS a developer

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-dos-developer.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A Whole New Level

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/noteleaf/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Split Stacks in GCC

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/illegal-tv-streamers-heres-how-the-feds-will-hunt-you-down.ars

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Pic A Fight: Instagram meets FaceMash

http://www.picafight.com/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio

http://phoneify.com

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Nothing is ever as risky as you think it is

http://www.unschooled.org/2011/03/what-sam-altman-taught-me-about-risk/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

US Department of Justice investigating MPEG LA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703752404576178833590548792.html#

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

Multitasking

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/04/multitasking/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Greplin Founder Daniel Gross on amazing story behind building the company

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/05/greplin-founder-daniel-gross-on-his-amazing-story-behind-building-the-company-interview/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Channelsurfing.net owner arrested for linking to sharing sites

http://act.demandprogress.org/act/channelsurfing/?referring_akid=329.23654.oWjuYc&source=typ-tw

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusations

http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

EFF takes a look at the 2011 Patent Reform Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/could-2011-be-year-look-patent-reform-act

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Erlang - Not just fault tolerant, but highly fault tolerant

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/201001928;jsessionid=DPXLN5AC1WZ2DQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

How did MySpace do such a bad UI/UX job?

http://www.quora.com/How-did-MySpace-with-a-smart-team-of-people-do-such-a-BAD-UI-UX-job-with-the-new-design/answer/Andrew-Chen

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Investors? What do you think this is… Twitter?

http://page.ly/about/investors/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Review My Startup - PaperPhobic

http://paperphobic.com

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Cloud Ping

http://www.awsping.com/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Are we in another bubble? Empirical data from CrunchBase

http://www.kevenlin.com/entry/are-we-in-a-bubble-empirical-data-from-crunchbase

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/02/shackletons-antarctica-in-colour-1915/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

A clone of Microsoft Paint in JavaScript, using the WHATWG Canvas

http://canvaspaint.org/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

posix-spawn: a faster fork+exec for ruby

https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn#readme

15 years ago

★ 524 Ruby
56 upvotes – 12 comments

What are some warning signs to look for when dealing with VC firms?

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-warning-signs-to-look-for-when-dealing-with-VC-firms-and-Individual-Investors/answer/Shervin-Talieh?srid=upo

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

The Pragmatic Programmer

http://www.hn-books.com/Books/The-Pragmatic-Programmer.htm

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

The Pioneer Anomaly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Developer only event at SXSW (code puzzle gets harder with more tweets)

http://hackerunderground.com

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 47 comments

Conan O'Brien: "Apple Gets Cocky About iPad 2" (parody video)

http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=245467&eref=sharethisUrl

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Olark as a networking tool

http://www.theborski.com/2011/03/02/olark-as-a-networking-tool/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Scri.ch, a website that let you draw.

http://scri.ch/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 32 comments

Bedside Cancer Detector

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/bedside-cancer-detector/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments
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