top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-16

Web developer will work for you for free

http://hirefreecoder.heroku.com/

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 107 comments

Airbnb

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing

https://zetabee.com/

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 82 comments

AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/snarketing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 91 comments

Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/16/cloud-computing-for-the-rest-of-us

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 85 comments

Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/16/is-this-the-girl-that-hacked-hbgary/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 131 comments

Deaths per unit of energy for various sources

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/2e5d4dcc4fb511e0ae0c000255111976/comments/2e70ae944fb511e0ae0c000255111976

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 247 comments

How The Kernel Manages Your Memory

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-your-memory

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 18 comments

MongoDB 1.8 (stable) released

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/3903149313/mongodb-1-8-released

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 67 comments

Chomsky on Intellectual Property

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.noam-chomsky/msg/12c9b62ed459d63d?pli=1

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 127 comments

Japan quake map

http://www.japanquakemap.com/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 31 comments

Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from my freemium web app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2331556

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 78 comments

The worst program I ever worked on

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+on

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 130 comments

Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hr2sPhUE6ja0EMclJeUeGSQAON-g?docId=7e3dd7128b804f5d965554ff69375e76

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 112 comments

Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/css3-planetarium/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 59 comments

You shouldn't apply to YCombinator if...

http://blog.crowdbooster.com/you-shouldnt-apply-to-yc-if

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

The 'why I am not worried' article, edited by MIT nuclear scientists

http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/?mit

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 131 comments

MongoDB interactive tutorial

http://www.mongly.com/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

IE6IFY

http://ie6ify.com/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 32 comments

Linux internals

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/category/internals

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 5 comments

How to construct a web developer in twelve months

http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/2011/03/13/how-construct-web-developer-twelve-months

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

Y Combinator Looks for Outliers

http://ginzametrics.com/y-combinator-looks-for-outliers.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/03/uncovering-advertising-fraud-scheme.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Looking for a Technical CoFounder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332349

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

How do I create a topmost window that is never covered by other topmost windows?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/03/10/10138969.aspx

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Japan Aid: Help for the Well-Prepared

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/15/what-aid-makes-sense-for-japan/prepared-but-still-in-need

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

2 Hours With GarageBand for iPad - A Review and a Demo

http://rob.by/2011/garageband-has-found-its-interface

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 51 comments

Go becomes more stable

http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/go-becomes-more-stable.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/san-francisco-twitter-zynga/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 100 comments

Where the Unix philosophy breaks down

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/30/where-the-unix-philosophy-breaks-down/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

Netflix Gets Into The Original Content Game, Buys Upcoming Show For $100m

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/netflix-gets-into-the-original-content-game-buys-upcoming-show-for-100m/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake

http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/?p=144

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Understanding Quake’s Fast Inverse Square Root

http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fast-inverse-square-root

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

A Clever End Run Around the Movie-Streaming Gremlins

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=twr

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

31 days, 120,000 hits, and $462 in revenue. The Startup Foundry’s story.

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/16/31-days-120000-hits-and-462-in-revenue-the-startup-foundrys-story/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

How can I tell if I am failing at my entrepreneurial venture or start-up?

http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/how-can-i-tell-if-i-am-failing-at-my-entrepreneurial-venture-or-start-up/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Quora engineers accused of vandalizing a clone’s website

http://www.greyreview.com/2011/03/17/quora-engineers-accused-of-vandalizing-a-clones-website/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

Erlang/OTP R14B02 has been released.

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B02.readme

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Concrete Poured Into Ant Colony Reveals Insect Megalopolis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFg21x2sj-M

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Parsing ought to be easier

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201103#16

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-30-hardware-acceleration.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

More, better, faster: UX design for startups

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2011/03/more_better_faster_ux_design.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Heyzap (YC 09) Launches Android App for Discovering & Checking In to Games

http://mashable.com/2011/03/16/heyzap-android-app/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Wonga is betting that computers are better at lending than banks

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/15/the-algorithm-that-beats-your-bank-manager/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

Scaling PHP Up, Out, and Around

http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/16/scaling-php-up-out-and-around/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

BBC interview with creator of Elite

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/03/david_braben_-_an_elite_gamer.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Why 'Secret Questions' Suck as a Security Measure

http://jamesburkhart.com/why-secret-questions-suck-as-a-security-measu

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-caused-ge-scientist/story?id=13141287

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Brushing Up on Computer Science Part 3, Data Structures

http://www.victusspiritus.com/2011/03/16/brushing-up-on-computer-science-part-3-data-structures/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

How to play a sound in a web browser (it ain’t easy)

http://mir.aculo.us/2011/03/16/how-to-play-a-sound-in-a-web-browser-it-aint-easy/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Advice for YC applicants on the fence

http://blog.rmorrison.org/advice-for-yc-applicants-on-the-fence

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments

Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications

http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/42778

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: ducksboard, a real time dashboard using websockets

http://ducksboard.com/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 25 comments
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