top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-19

Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' [in 1967]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/18/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage?ft=1&f=1026

15 years ago

339 upvotes – 62 comments

Reddit Is Down To One Developer

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/reddit-is-down-to-one-developer/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 91 comments

Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure

http://www.manning.com/fogus/excerpt_foreword.html

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 68 comments

Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?

http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-dont-journalists-link-to-primary-sources/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 51 comments

I think tumblr has a huge security hole

http://pastebin.com/R2PJa6BU

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 198 comments

New venture of Slicehost founder

http://devstructure.com/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 30 comments

Numbers everyone should know

http://highscalability.com/numbers-everyone-should-know

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

Want to write some code? Get away from your computer

http://blog.rtwilson.com/want-to-write-some-code-get-away-from-your-computer/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 58 comments

Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms

http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/14/extracting-article-text-from-html-documents/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: I'm considering leaving a startup to look for big-company jobs (really).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343776

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 67 comments

Superconductivity Near 20 Celsius

http://www.superconductors.org/20C.htm

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

RIP Digg

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-expression-parsing-made-easy/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Design annoyances

http://codefastdieyoung.com/2011/03/design-annoyances/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Radiation Chart

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/google-ventures-launches-10000-startup-referral-program-for-employees/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Richard Feynman: Magnets and Why Questions [video]

http://hus.posterous.com/richard-feynman-magnets-and-why-questions

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

AMD says DirectX is hobbling PC graphics

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/16/farewell-to-directx/1

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Don’t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/little-bets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Chats.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group chat, launches

http://chats.io

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments

Why You Should Never Buy a Home Again

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/why-i-am-never-going-to-own-a-home-again/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

http://www.frozenhot.com

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

Taking stock after 13 years

http://jacquesmattheij.com/taking+stock+after+13+years

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

My Extravagant Zsh Prompt

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Open Source Micro-Factory

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/03/open-source-micro-factory

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

StackExchange allows discussion of techniques for removing DRM.

http://meta.superuser.com/questions/2212/is-discussion-of-techniques-for-removing-drm-permitted

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

A jacquesm comment led me to build HN for the rest of the world. How it works.

http://whatsupedia.posterous.com/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/03/the_top_ten_sig.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

The War For Talent

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/the-war-for-talent.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 67 comments

My Worst Phone Screen

http://blog.hirelite.com/my-worst-interview

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 47 comments

What it's like to start work at Quora

http://www.quora.com/Kah-Seng-Tay/What-its-like-to-start-work-at-Quora

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

The Idea about Ideas (2005)

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2005/12/idea-about-ideas.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

A human error caused some sensitive server...

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/3959106211/update-regarding-security-issue

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

IRobot sending robots to Japan to help with nuclear crisis.

http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/irobot-sending-packbots-and-warriors-to-fukushima

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 20 comments

Coding for the Mobile Web

http://arandomurl.com/2011/03/16/coding-for-the-mobile-web.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments
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