top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-20

AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110320005040/en/ATT-Acquire-T-Mobile-USA-Deutsche-Telekom

15 years ago

314 upvotes – 203 comments

See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

http://graph.facebook.com/http://news.ycombinator.com

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 55 comments

Sony offers hacker a job. Hacker turns them down because of geoHot

http://www.inquisitr.com/101239/sony-offers-hacker-a-job-hacker-turns-them-down-because-of-geohot/

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 61 comments

Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive

http://www.marco.org/3991237704

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 101 comments

I got into YC after applying 6 times. Here's my advice for YC applicants

http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 54 comments

The Tyranny of the Extroverts

http://allendowney.com/essays/tyranny.html

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 87 comments

2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2768351

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 58 comments

Codified startup advice

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/03/codified-advice.html

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 24 comments

Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/20/dont-yell-at-waitresses-you-look-like-a-jerk-and-it-blows-investments/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

I just don’t get LinkedIn, do you?

http://stilgherrian.com/internet/i-just-dont-get-linkedin-do-you/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 72 comments

Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

http://www.phpfogsucks.com/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 116 comments

In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses

http://gigaom.com/2011/03/20/in-att-t-mobile-merger-everybody-loses/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released

http://ajaxstack.com/jsonreport/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty.

http://www.slate.com/id/2288514

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

YC Is Not a School for Startups; It's Marine Corps Boot Camp for Founders

http://earbitscom.posterous.com/yc-is-not-a-school-for-startups-it-is-marine#

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Anyone on HN running a web startup with 50K+ a year net profit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345810

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

What It Feels Like to Be Rich

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=828

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 101 comments

Apple's Safari Browser Gives Search Marketers Headaches

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=146801&nid=124777

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Hiring Without Agencies - Lessons Learned

http://wip.engineroomapps.com/post/3927805265/hiring-without-agencies-lessons-learned-part-1

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: We made a web-based cash register

https://www.facecash.com/register.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Beetailer (YC W11) Helps Online Retailers Set Up Shop On Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/beetailer-helps-online-retailers-set-up-shop-on-facebook/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Google releases Anthill to bake VP8 into hardware

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20043249-264.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

The complete works of Leonhard Euler available online

http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

Fear may be more dangerous than radiation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fear-is-potent-risk-of-japanese-nuclear-crisis/2011/03/14/AB76TxV_story.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye

http://im-possible.info/english/articles/escher_printgallery/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Understanding and using Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store

http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-amazon-ebs.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Breaking the Rules

http://blog.asmartbear.com/breaking-the-rules.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

How not to interact with the media - Hashable CEO

http://spiers.tumblr.com/post/3943409431/how-not-to-interact-with-the-media-101-courtesy

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Dynamic languages are static languages

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-languages-are-static-languages/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: you want HOW much for the design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346350

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 53 comments

Rule of 72

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/in-the-race-for-more-spectrum-att-is-acquiring-t-mobile-for-39-billion/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Functional Programming Exchange wrapup: scala, haskell, F#

http://www.mmakowski.com/wiki/tech:functional_programming_exchange_2011

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments
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