top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-06

51 hours left to live

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fy6yz/51_hours_left_to_live/

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 112 comments

This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it.

https://profiles.google.com/

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/why-silicon-valley-immigrant-entrepreneurs-are-returning-home/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 84 comments

The Anti-Mac User Interface

http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 42 comments

The need to code

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+need+to+code

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Data Structures Matter: left, right folds, btrees

http://joelneely.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/why-data-structures-matter/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 7 comments

Get your own #dickbar

http://encodedrecords.com/dickbar/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 60 comments

Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2292916

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 135 comments

How Github has changed the open source world

http://honza.ca/2011/03/7-ways-github-has-changed-the-open-source-world/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/yougotlistings-offers-a-broker-tested-rental-listing-management-software/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

Favimon: web game in which you battle and collect website favicons

http://www.matthewhollett.com/favimon/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

JQuery noise generator

https://github.com/DanielRapp/Noisy

15 years ago

★ 683 JavaScript MIT
99 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Apple Doesn't Trust Developers

http://statictext.tumblr.com/post/3676219047/trust

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

Lego Carcassonne

http://www.iamcal.com/lego-carcassonne/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

How I Gamed GDC’s Top Social Game Developers

http://www.untoldentertainment.com/blog/2011/03/05/holding-the-bag-how-i-gamed-gdcs-top-social-game-developers/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux

http://www.madore.org/~david/linux/gcfs/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Network programming with Go

http://jan.newmarch.name/go/index.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Why Generic Machine Learning Fails

http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/machine-learning-in-wonderland/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Music with AWK

http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: My weekend project: Twtspire

http://www.twtspire.com/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

FreeBSD is looking for some fresh hackers

http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2011/03/freebsd-needs-fresh-blood/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

LongReads: a refuge of long-form articles in this Twitter-crazy world

http://longreads.com/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Venezuela's squatter skyscrapers; as the country declines

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela.html?_r=1

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

Using tcpflow to debug HTTP API libraries

http://woss.name/2011/03/06/using-tcpflow/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

WebGL game: Tankworld

http://www.playtankworld.com/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Why Payments Are Hard, Even For Apple And Google

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/payments-apple-google/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/nasa-scientist-finds-evidence-of-alien-life/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Understanding Practical API Design, Static Typing, and Functional Programming

http://blog.tmorris.net/understanding-practical-api-design-static-typing-and-functional-programming/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Reasons to use Haskell as a Mathematician

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/01/eleven-reasons-to-use-haskell-as.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

An SQL in Shell, written by Bruce Momjian of PostgreSQL core.

http://blog.andrewvc.com/before-postgresql-bruce-momjian-wrote-an-sql

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments
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