top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-09

Sleep is more important than food

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/03/sleep-is-more-important-than-f.html

15 years ago

437 upvotes – 169 comments

A tale of two programmers

http://jacquesmattheij.com/A+tale+of+two+programmers

15 years ago

331 upvotes – 68 comments

Xcode now costs US$ 4.99

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 385 comments

A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-overflow-with-surprise-ending/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 59 comments

Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See "Bubble" in Technology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBTRf1kgm8

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 76 comments

Saved 10 billion DNS queries per month by disabling DNS Prefetching

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/DNS-Prefetching-implications.html

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-in-gmail-labs-smart-labels.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

North Korea's Digital Underground

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/09/webos-will-on-every-hp-pc-shipping-next-year-says-ceo/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 79 comments

Shortest SEO Guide

http://lifedev.net/2011/03/shortest-seo-guide/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

In-N-Out Secret Menu Survival Guide

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/03/the-in-n-out-survival-guide-we-ate-every-single-item-on-the-secret-menu.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 45 comments

Stanford Wireless Breakthrough

http://drdobbs.com/mobility/229218939?cid=nl_ddjupdate_2011-03-01_html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

The State of HTML5 Audio

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Firefox 4 RC now available

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/09/mozilla-firefox-4-release-candidate-for-windows-mac-and-linux-now-available/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 116 comments

Stupid EU cookie law will hand the advantage to the US

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stupid-eu-cookie-law-will-hand-the-advantage-to-the-us-kill-our-startups-stone-dead/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 99 comments

FTC Puts Patent Trolls on Notice

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110308/01101513393/ftc-puts-patent-trolls-notice.shtml

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

Move Over Apple, My Tablet Cost $200

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703662804576188901890884360.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 92 comments

"Life After Y Combinator" Panel at SXSW

http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scqxk/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Home automation and lighting control with Kinect

http://nitrogen.posterous.com/home-automation-and-lighting-control-with-kin

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Using node.js, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis to make a real time chat app

http://fzysqr.com/2011/02/28/nodechat-js-using-node-js-backbone-js-socket-io-and-redis-to-make-a-real-time-chat-app/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

End of Ubuntu Netbook Edition

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=528

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

The sound of mspaint.exe when interpreted as PCM audio data

http://soundcloud.com/r2bl3nd/windows-7-x64-ms-paint-exe

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Harvard computer scientist Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030911-valiant-turing-award.html?hpg1=bn

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget

http://devblog.muziboo.com/2011/03/09/rails-mysql-scaling-on-a-budget/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/09/0618234/Crime-Writer-Makes-a-Killing-With-99-Cent-E-Books?from=fb

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576186530946790912.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk

http://openresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/everybody-is-spamming-everybody-else-on-mechanical-turk/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Translation from Haskell to JavaScript (Introduction to monads)

http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell-to-javascript-of-selected-portions-of-the-best-introduction-to-monads-ive-ever-read/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Voyager: Still dancing 17 billion km from Earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12688246

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

Throw away the keys: Easy, Minimal Perfect Hashing

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=119

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

How to Launch a Camera Into Space (with FAA Approval)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flying/how-to-launch-a-camera-into-space?click=pm_latest

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Xcode 4 released

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 104 comments

TeX Is Great, What Is TeX?

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/tex-is-great-what-is-tex/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Elixir: Simple Object Orientation and charming syntax on top of Erlang

https://github.com/josevalim/elixir

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

DailyBooth (YC S09) Closes $6 Million Venture Round

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/08/dailybooth-so-excited-about-ipad-2-camera-that-they-close-a-6-million-venture-round/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

DuckDuckGo chat bot: imddg.gg

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/03/imddggg-duckduckgo-chat-bot.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

Behind the Project: Pic A Fight

http://paulstamatiou.com/pic-a-fight-launch-viral-facemash-instagram?hn

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Google Job Page from 1998

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19991013034717/http://google.com/jobs.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments

Gmail Unveils Another Weapon Against Email Overload: Smart Labels

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/gmail-unveils-another-weapon-against-email-overload-smart-labels/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

VeriFone Takes The Gloves Off, Accuses Square Of Serious Security Hole

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/verifone-takes-the-gloves-off-accuses-square-of-serious-security-hole/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 68 comments

IOS 4.3 Released Ahead of Schedule

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/apple-releases-ios-43-three-days-ahead-of-schedule.ars

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 26 comments

What Is Twitter’s Problem? No, It’s Not the Product

http://gigaom.com/2011/03/08/what-is-twitters-problem-no-its-not-the-product/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 4 comments

Convore (YC W11) Introduces iPhone App

http://blog.convore.com/post/3748606742/convore-iphone-app

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

Wordmerge

http://www.wordmergeapp.com/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 25 comments

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 Released

http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110308-livedvd.xml

15 years ago

35 upvotes – 6 comments

The Future of the Tablet, and It Isn’t the iPad 2

http://www.fastcompany.com/1736602/the-future-of-the-tablet-and-it-isn-t-the-ipad-2?partner=homepage_newsletter

15 years ago

35 upvotes – 26 comments

Xfs is still faster but ext4 is catching up on large file creation

http://tytso.livejournal.com/64071.html

15 years ago

35 upvotes – 17 comments

IE9 to launch on March 14, 2011

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/03/09/a-more-beautiful-web-launches-on-march-14th.aspx

15 years ago

34 upvotes – 43 comments

Pre-Launch preview: Socialize, by AppMakr (avail for iPhone apps 3/15)

http://go.AppMakr.com/introducing-socialize

15 years ago

34 upvotes – 13 comments
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