top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-05

If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/05/if-ipads-are-%E2%80%9Cpost-pc-devices%E2%80%9D-why-must-i-sync-with-itunes-before-i-can-use-one/

15 years ago

Facebook bans Adsense in all applications, driving Google out of Facebook.com

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=91182&p=2

15 years ago

Feynman's wobbling plate: how to recover from burnout

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

15 years ago

Student Who Found GPS Device On His Car Due To Reddit Comment Sues The FBI

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110304/10254213366/student-who-found-gps-device-his-car-due-to-reddit-comment-sues-fbi.shtml

15 years ago

YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

http://ycpages.info/

15 years ago

Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8383ab06-45e3-11e0-acd8-00144feab49a.html#axzz1FkqxeoCx

15 years ago

Fabric hits 1.0

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fabric/1.0.0

15 years ago

Python now uses Mercurial

http://hg.python.org/cpython/

15 years ago

Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html

15 years ago

SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups

http://cdixon.org/2011/03/05/seo-is-no-longer-a-viable-marketing-strategy-for-startups/

15 years ago

Euler's Identity (and other maths) explained in 5 minutes

http://www.b3ta.com/links/Eulers_Identity_and_other_maths_explained_in_5_minutes

15 years ago

Forty-five times faster at programming

http://imprompt.us/2011/forty-five/

15 years ago

SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find

http://www.macworld.com/article/158234/2011/03/ssdfirmware.html#lsrc.rss_news

15 years ago

A Non-Programmer’s Apology

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nonapology

15 years ago

Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html

15 years ago

On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services

http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/hamilton/hamilton_html/

15 years ago

The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

The power of lonely

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/06/the_power_of_lonely/?page=full

15 years ago

Review my HTML5 game Freeciv.net again one year later

http://www.freeciv.net/

15 years ago

The Five Habits of Great Innovators

http://www.fastcompany.com/1733244/the-five-habits-of-great-innovators

15 years ago

From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned

http://www.slideshare.net/adamsmith1/from-zero-to-a-million-users-dropbox-and-xobni-lessons-learned

15 years ago

NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/

15 years ago

How long is Last.fm gonna last?

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/03/05/how-long-is-last-fm-gonna-last/?awesm=tnw.to_17X1h&utm_content=twitter-publisher-other&utm_medium=tnw.to-other&utm_source=direct-tnw.to

15 years ago

All 1,926 public school teachers in Providence fired

http://www.projo.com/news/content/PROVIDENCE_SCHOOL_MEETINGS_02-25-11_MCMMBSG_v26.1bd455c.html

15 years ago

Ask HN: Please destroy my startup idea so I don't waste time on it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2292751

15 years ago