top 50% 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

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

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

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

Make something people need

http://jacquesmattheij.com/make+something+people+need

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide

http://www.few.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Read code on the browser with ease.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epmaefhielclhlnmjofcdapbeepkmggh#v1.6.2

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/10-unusual-things-about-google/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Are you sure you want to start a company? (A Letter to Y Combinator Applicants)

http://www.jonbeilin.net/2011/03/yc-application/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

http://steveblank.com/2011/03/18/new-rules-for-the-new-bubble/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Seeing Interactive (YC W10) Changes Name To OwnLocal, Launches Deals Network

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/seeing-interactive-changes-name-to-ownlocal-launches-hyper-local-deals-network/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

http://unicornfree.com/2011/dont-let-the-bastards-grind-you-down/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

The Google Authenticator Open Source project

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Not Even Kevin Rose Really Uses Digg Anymore

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/not-even-kevin-rose-really-uses-digg-anymore/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

AT&T trying to crackdown on unauth. tethering

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/att-shames-unauthorized-phone-tetherers-gives-ultimatum-deadline.ars

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Where Apple went wrong with free apps

http://www.manton.org/2011/03/where_apple.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Tell HN: PayPal is borked for most merchants

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340336

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Fred Wilson invented Embedly: How we got a Y Combinator interview

http://blog.embed.ly/fred-wilson-invented-embedly-how-we-got-a-y-c

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Professionalism is for Amateurs

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/18/professionalism-is-for-amateurs/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

An Update on my Ask HN - 2223764

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339618

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Node v0.4.3 released

http://nodeblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/node-v0-4-3/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011

http://www.dabbledb.com/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 29 comments

Simple JavaScript Inheritance with Backbone

http://blog.usefunnel.com/2011/03/js-inheritance-with-backbone/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: sideproject, generating revenue & profit what's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339881

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Firefox 4 isn’t abandoning Windows XP

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/firefox-4-engineers-decided-stick-windows-xp

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 35 comments

How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing

http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0070/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 23 comments

I'll take "Sticking it to United" for $49

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2011/3/18/ill-take-sticking-it-to-united-for-49-cc-unitedairlines.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 27 comments

Dear Continental Airlines, you have a broken funnel

http://savagethoughts.com/post/3942020844/dear-continental-airlines

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments

Hello Singapore (CDN Experiment)

https://github.com/blog/815-hello-singapore-cdn-experiment

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments

Why IE9 is a Web Designer’s Nightmare

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/why-ie9-is-a-web-designers-nightmare/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: PodCastle - Reddit for podcasts

http://podcastle.us

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask PG: Have your feelings changed about RFS3?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341567

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 17 comments
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