top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-03-18

How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup

http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-comment-on-h-0

15 years ago

504 upvotes – 92 comments

"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 152 comments

"Aristo" for jQuery UI

http://taitems.github.com/Aristo-jQuery-UI-Theme/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 38 comments

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 85 comments

Why Reddit was down for 6 hours

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 95 comments

Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/kevin-rose-resigns-from-digg-closing-round-on-new-startup/

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 71 comments

Think Stats, using python to learn stats

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 30 comments

Stop Calling Projects Startups

http://bmull.com/out-of-respect-for-people-actually-launching

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 59 comments

Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/03/17/liquefaction-from-the-sendai-earthquake/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 29 comments

Not A Waste

http://al3x.net/2011/03/18/not-a-waste.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 116 comments

Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-making-its-way-to-mac-os-x.ars

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

Make your startup ridiculously easy to write about. Put together a press pack

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/18/make-your-startup-ridiculously-easy-to-write-about-put-together-a-great-press-pack/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 14 comments

CNN Sending Eight Times More Staff to Royal Wedding Than to Japan

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/03/statistic-day-cnn-devotes-8-times-much-manpower-covering-royal-wedding-japans-crisis/35923/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 77 comments

A legacy from the 1800s leaves Tokyo facing blackouts

http://www.itworld.com/business/140626/legacy-1800s-leaves-tokyo-facing-blackouts

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

Confessions of an Apple Store Employee

http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee?page=all

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-anne-hathaway-news-drive-berkshire-hathaways-stock/72661/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft shuts down giant Rustock spamming network

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/03/17/microsoft-shuts-down-giant-rustock-spamming-network/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

But nobody wants a “fast-paced environment”

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/59173/why-do-ads-for-s-w-engineers-always-say-they-offer-a-fast-paced-environment

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 67 comments

MonoMac 1.0 is out

http://tirania.org/monomac/archive/2011/Mar-17.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Was Einstein really a poor student?

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/956/was-einstein-really-a-poor-student

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments
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