top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-14

My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.

http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/

15 years ago

697 upvotes – 238 comments

Finally, a Startup Visa That Works

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/finally-a-startup-visa-that-works/

15 years ago

329 upvotes – 116 comments

Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4568645/printing-1-to-1000-without-loop-or-conditionals/4583502#4583502

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 97 comments

Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=200801#31

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 55 comments

First dump of Anon BofA Documents is up

http://bankofamericasuck.com/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 117 comments

GNU Free Call has been announced (Skype-like software)

http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=14

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 55 comments

The pi is a lie… Happy Half Tau Day!

http://halftauday.com/?

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 108 comments

Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/technology-blog/2011/02/hidden-warning-message-found-in-samsungs-galaxy-tablet/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: My Node.js two weekend project. Color palettes from Flickr images.

http://colorapi.com

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

Twitter and Me

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/03/14/twitter-and-me.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Etsy users irked after buyers, purchases exposed to the world

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-after-buyers-purchases-exposed-to-the-world.ars

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

C, The Beautiful Language

http://tenaciousc.com/?p=1787

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 82 comments

Unholy: _why's Ruby to Python compiler

https://github.com/whymirror/unholy

15 years ago

★ 215 Python
130 upvotes – 54 comments

OpenBSD base now free of C++

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110314142734

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321838

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 170 comments

Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576198421680697248.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

Skip Lists are Fascinating

http://igoro.com/archive/skip-lists-are-fascinating/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?

http://www.quora.com/Success/If-I-havent-succeeded-in-my-mid-20s-could-I-be-successful-in-the-rest-of-my-life?srid=uej

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments

How my childhood friend became an Internet laughingstock.

http://www.slate.com/id/2287808/pagenum/all/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

The City By The Meh: Thoughts On Falling Out Of Love With The Valley

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/13/the-city-by-the-meh-thoughts-on-falling-out-of-love-with-the-valley/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/03/benjamin-franklins-daily-schedule.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Another Inside Job

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 67 comments

An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business”

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/an-open-letter-to-jon-bon-jovi-on-whats-really-killing-the-music-business/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

Brushing up on Computer Science Part 1, Big O

http://www.victusspiritus.com/2011/03/14/brushing-up-on-computer-science-part-1-big-o/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Haskell’s Niche: Hard Problems

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/haskells-niche-hard-problems/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

Alternative operating systems

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/10-best-alternative-operating-systems-934484

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

Web Analytics & Startups

http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Three Roads To The Top Of The Mountain

http://jacquesmattheij.com/three+roads+to+the+top+of+the+mountain

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1192471&p=public_profile

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

How The New York Times Graphics Department Uses R

http://www.r-bloggers.com/amanda-cox-on-how-the-new-york-times-graphics-department-uses-r/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 1 comments

Turn your earbuds into speakers

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tembotrunks/tembo-trunks-earbud-speakers

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Chile to give 300 startups $40,000

http://start-upchile.com/about/the-program/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

PyCon 2011: Disqus: Serving 400 million people with Python

http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4880330/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Erlang? - In-A-Gist Blog

http://blog.inagist.com/why-erlang

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004)

http://info.lycos.com/releases.php?id=1550

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Tell HN: Text "Startup Visa" to 894546 to support the Startup Visa act

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324232

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I broke up with Portland to build my startup…

http://siliconflorist.com/2011/03/14/portland-startup-broke-up-back-together/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Keyword Tool to Find Available Domain Names

http://domaingroovy.com/keyword_tool/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

Adding GIT SHAs to your application's HTTP headers

http://blog.andrewvc.com/making-life-easier-with-git-shas-in-your-http

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Junkyard Jumbotron: join all your screens into one big one, no software needed

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/13/junkyard-jumbotron-j.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

A Haskell program that prints out a Perl program that prints out...

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free

http://thenextweb.com/ca/2011/03/14/tellfi-brings-google-voice-like-service-to-canada-1-year-free/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

37Signals' "Rework" in action

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2808-how-makalu-interactive-created-the-international-iphone-hit-racesplitter#comment_form

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12729138

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 45 comments

Piper Jaffray: iPad 2 totally sold out, 70% to new buyers

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/13/piper-jaffray-ipad-2-totally-sold-out-70-to-new-buyers/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

Groupon Client Goes Public With Beef at SXSW

http://www.fastcompany.com/1738257/groupon-smackdown-on-the-pepsico-stage

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments

Fit your product to the right market

http://swombat.com/2011/3/14/fit-your-product-to-the-right-market

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Color Snapper: "The missing color picker for Mac OS X"

http://colorsnapper.com/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 43 comments

PyCon Video Archive

http://pycon.blip.tv/?sort=custom;view=archive;date=;user=pycon;s=posts;nsfw=dc

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments
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