top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-15

Music Theory for Beginners

http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/music-theory-for-beginners/

15 years ago

382 upvotes – 107 comments

Dudes, this is so not REST

http://jens.mooseyard.com/2011/03/dudes-this-is-so-not-rest/

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 130 comments

Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username

http://caledonianrecord.com/FormLayout.asp?formcall=30&dest=/main.asp%3FSearch%3D1%26ArticleID%3D51476%26SectionID%3D1%26SubSectionID%3D145%26S%3D1

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 93 comments

iOS Libraries

http://www.appdevmag.com/10-ios-libraries-to-make-your-life-easier/

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 76 comments

Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake

http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2011/3/14/apples-role-in-japan-during-the-tohoku-earthquake.html

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 81 comments

Parsing: the solved problem that isn't

http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/parsing_the_solved_problem_that_isnt

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 47 comments

JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support

http://jruby.org/2011/03/15/jruby-1-6-0.html

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 40 comments

Why no looting in Japan?

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/why-is-there-no-looting-in-japan/?hpt=T1

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 185 comments

Letter heads, by Firefox labs

http://lab.simurai.com/toy/letter-heads/

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 13 comments

Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13370/why-are-there-no-alternatives-to-tex-or-why-is-tex-still-used

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 122 comments

Time Warner Cable trying to make municipal fiber illegal in North Carolina

http://www.innovationpolicy.org/fat-pipe-dreams-in-north-carolina

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/obama-ip-czar-wants-felony-charges-for-illegal-web-streaming.ars

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 78 comments

The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I have ever heard

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/03/15/the-weirdest-but-working-iphone-4-reception-trick-i-have-ever-heard/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/fukushiima_analysis/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 150 comments

Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant)

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 215 comments

Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User and a Developer

http://blog.dantup.com/2011/03/why-im-close-to-giving-up-on-windows-phone-7-as-a-user-and-a-developer

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 80 comments

A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/new-approach-amazon-ec2-networking.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 34 comments

Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/marketlive.aspx

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 127 comments

Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network

http://frenzyapp.com/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 38 comments

Accidental SEO: How I got 400,000 page views without even knowing it

http://ginzametrics.com/accidental-seo.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream'

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031411-richard-stallman.html?hpg1=bn

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 81 comments

What's so special about Y Combinator?

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/15/whats-so-special-about-y-combinator.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

A complete Internet web server built into an Ethernet (RJ-45) jack

http://www.inventables.com/technologies/miniature-web-server

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Functional Thinking after OO

http://squirrel.pl/blog/2011/03/14/two-worlds-learning-functional-thinking-after-oo/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 62 comments

New Flash zero-day exploit that allows system takeover

http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2011/03/security-advisory-for-adobe-flash-player-adobe-reader-and-acrobat-apsa11-01.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/tsa-radiation-test-bungling/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Tldr summary: deliberate practice for expert performance

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3881908748/tldr-summary-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

Germany shuts down seven reactors‎ because of Fokushima

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/germany-nuclear-idUSLDE72E17620110315

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 132 comments

The Surgeon Who Removed His Own Appendix

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarctica-1961-a-soviet-surgeon-has-to-remove-his-own-appendix/72445/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Milk: Machine Learning Toolkit for Python

http://luispedro.org/software/milk

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

How a handful of geeks defied the USSR

http://owni.fr/2011/03/13/how-a-handful-of-geeks-defied-the-ussr/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Report Finds Performance of Web Apps Throttled on iOS Devices

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_finds_performance_of_web_apps_throttled_on.php

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

If Steve Jobs was such a bad boss why did so many people work with him?

http://www.quora.com/If-Steve-Jobs-was-such-a-bad-boss-why-did-so-many-people-work-with-him

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

A Tarsnap-Alike for Private Storage

http://www.synctus.com/blog/2011/03/a-tarsnap-alike-for-private-storage

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app: acts_as_edgy

http://blog.directededge.com/2011/03/15/the-easiest-way-to-add-recommendations-to-your-rails-app-announcing-acts_as_edgy/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Dictionary Lookups in JavaScript

http://ejohn.org/blog/dictionary-lookups-in-javascript/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

IE9 has been released

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub

http://mitnse.com/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Judge calls music biz request for $75 trillion in Limewire damages 'absurd'

http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650&Manhattan_Federal_Judge_Kimba_Wood_Calls_Record_Companies_Request_for__Trillion_in_Damages_Absurd_in_Lime_Wire_Copyright_Case

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Startup Visa has a bill number: S.565

http://startupvisa.tumblr.com/post/3881752964/startup-visa-has-a-bill-number-s-565

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

As AT&T Introduces Caps, BT Removes Them; Says Investing In Network Is Smarter

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110314/08473413487/as-att-introduces-caps-bt-removes-them-says-investing-network-is-smarter.shtml

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Create Forms to Receive Files on Your Dropbox

http://www.jotform.com/dropbox/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Deaths per TWh for all energy sources: Rooftop solar power relatively dangerous

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

The Rolodex Logo Shock

http://imjustcreative.com/the-rolodex-logo-shock/2011/03/15/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 34 comments

Drchrono (YC W11) is building a health care revolution on the iPad

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/15/drchrono-is-building-a-health-care-revolution-on-the-ipad/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

The first 6 months of Reddit (YC S05): "Entrepreneurship is a bipolar existence"

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/15/the-first-6-months-of-reddit-yc-05-entrepreneurship-is-a-bipolar-existence/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

On Leaving Flickr

http://mroth.info/blog/2011/03/14/on-leaving-flickr/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326840

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 65 comments

How Funding Rounds Differ: Seed, Series A, Series B, and C...

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/03/how-funding-rounds-differ-seed-series.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

FFmpeg Developers Just Forked As Libav

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTIwNw

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments

How to increase signups by 50% using “popup forms”

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/how-to-increase-signups-popup-forms/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 38 comments
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