top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-08

I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.

http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter

15 years ago

681 upvotes – 62 comments

Anatomy of a Crushing

http://pinboard.in/blog/173/

15 years ago

490 upvotes – 68 comments

The State of Version Control: an Infographic

http://www.fogcreek.com/blog/post/The-State-of-Version-Control.aspx

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 191 comments

Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular?

http://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog/2011/02/why-angry-birds-is-so-successful-a-cognitive-teardown-of-the-user-experience/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 76 comments

Life at a startup

http://abstractnonsense.com/life-at-a-startup/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple Keyboard in pure CSS.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/921159/Keyboard/page.html

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 41 comments

Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1299555462.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 64 comments

Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server

http://www.igvita.com/2011/03/08/goliath-non-blocking-ruby-19-web-server/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 25 comments

High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/supreme-court-hear-challenge-law-removes-works

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 29 comments

CoffeeScript: The beautiful way to write JavaScript

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19612

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 82 comments

HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete

https://github.com/elitheeli/oddities/blob/master/rule110-grid.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 87 comments

Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles

http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/08/epic-games-shows-jaw-dropping-graphics-for-next-generation-consoles-video/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 119 comments

Dealing with burn-out

http://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing+with+burn+out

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000823.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 121 comments

Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/07/like-fm?real=one

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 68 comments

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-braintree

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 converter

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/03/08/adobe-releases-flash-to-html5-converter/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

Competitive Start Fund (CSF) - Enterprise Ireland

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/Company/HPSU-Funding/Competitive-Start-Fund-CSF-.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 69 comments

Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist.

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/03/07/adolescent-brains-cause-or-consequence-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving+%28Sociological+Images%3A+Seeing+Is+Believing%29

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

Facebook Disconnect - chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

Sinatra in 8 lines

https://github.com/rkh/almost-sinatra

15 years ago

★ 517 Ruby
97 upvotes – 29 comments

Android now more profitable than iOS for well-known game developer

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17941/android_ios_app_profit

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Weekend deployments are for chumps

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2011/03/08/midnight-deploys-are-for-idiots/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Work has started on the next generation of Apache web server

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Work-has-started-on-the-next-generation-of-Apache-1203465.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Gain control of a Linux System via an USB-Device due to strcpy

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/USB-driver-bug-exposed-as-Linux-plug-pwn-1203617.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Redis: under the hood

http://pauladamsmith.com/articles/redis-under-the-hood.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/why-puppet-should-manage-your-infrastructure

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator

http://bmoremedia.com/features/startupcity030811.aspx

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

Real cost of C++ exception vs error-code checking

http://lazarenko.me/tips-and-tricks/c-exception-handling-and-performance

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Hacker News in real-time

http://hackerstream.com

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Notes on Haskell: What's Wrong with the For Loop

http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/whats-wrong-with-for-loop.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

How Pwn2Own Was Almost Won Via XSS

http://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2011/03/07/how-i-almost-won-pwn2own-via-xss/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Comparison of JavaScript loaders

https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tDdcrv9wNQRCNCRCflWxhYQ

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

The Like Log Study

http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Jython 2.5.2 released and benchmarking 20% faster

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Jython-2-5-2-released-and-benchmarking-20-faster-1203429.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 0 comments

100 years of celebrating women

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/100-years-of-celebrating-women.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Free Place to stay in Silicon valley if you code

http://blog.letslunch.com/2011/03/08/free-place-to-stay-in-silicon-valley-if-you-code/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

Explor (YC S07) Social App Discovery launches

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/08/explor-app/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

AMD Launches Latest Monster Dual-GPU Graphics Card, Radeon HD 6990 Tested

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-HD-6990-Review-Antilles-Has-Arrived/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Speedier, simpler and safer: Chrome’s basics get even better

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/speedier-simpler-and-safer-chromes.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 34 comments

IPad gets approval from FAA to replace paper flight charts and maps

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/01/ipad-gets-approval-from-faa-to-replace-paper-flight-charts-and-m/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 31 comments

VP8 Codec SDK "Bali" Released

http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/vp8-codec-sdk-bali-released.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Modern divorce: Wiretapped teddy bears, $120,000 in fines

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/-modern-divorce-wiretapped-teddy-bears-120000-in-fines.ars

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments
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