top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-21

GitHub now has view modes for image diffs.

https://github.com/cameronmcefee/Image-Diff-View-Modes/commit/8e95f70c9c47168305970e91021072673d7cdad8

15 years ago

★ 293
570 upvotes – 58 comments

AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to NSA

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying

15 years ago

525 upvotes – 220 comments

Wife Said No, Apple Said Yes

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/18/ipad-2-wife-says-no-but-apple-says-yes/

15 years ago

412 upvotes – 160 comments

Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

http://akshell.com

15 years ago

373 upvotes – 95 comments

Cω

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/comega/doc/comega_startpage.htm

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 74 comments

From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier

http://dlo.me/breakup-notifier/

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 43 comments

Startup Economics 101, or, How Long Until We’re Dead?

http://adgrok.com/startup-economics-101/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 50 comments

Why we are choosing Clojure as our main programming language

http://appvise.me/2011/03/why-we-are-choosing-clojure-as-our-main-programming-language/

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop

http://sonjajacob.tumblr.com/post/4002528981/dress-me-because-guys-hate-to-shop

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 201 comments

Has YC ever funded a company with a Black founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349477

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App Store'

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/apple-sues-amazon-com-over-use-of-app-store-trademark.html?cmpid=yhoo

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 71 comments

Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/sendoid-finally-sharing-big-files-isnt-a-huge-pain/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 90 comments

Programming is a Super Power

http://programmingzen.com/2011/03/21/programming-is-a-super-power/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 65 comments

The Current State of HTML5 Forms

http://wufoo.com/html5/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 56 comments

Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=120

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

iPad 2: Thoughts from a first time tablet user

http://paulstamatiou.com/apple-ipad-2-tablet-thoughts

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble over Android

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/mar11/03-21CorpNewsPR.mspx

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 114 comments

OOP no longer mandatory in CMU Computer Science Curriculum

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/03/oop-out-at-cmu

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic

http://blog.tommorris.org/post/3968125126/tel-xxx-and-mobi-are-all-pointless-and-idiotic

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 114 comments

Amazon shuts down Lendle

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/21/lendle-amazon

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Tempo: a tiny JSON rendering engine

http://twigkit.github.com/tempo/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-atts-deal-for-t-mobile-must-be-blocked-2011-03-21

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

Django 1.3 cheat sheet from revsys.com

http://www.revsys.com/django/cheatsheet/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 6 comments

XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

http://xorswap.com

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Knowing When Your Baby is Ugly

http://waynechang.com/2011/03/21/knowing-when-your-baby-is-ugly/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Misconceptions about the Khan Academy

http://shipordie.com/post/4003361706/lets-clear-some-things-up-5-misconceptions-about-the

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Google AI Challenge 2011 (Ants)

https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki

15 years ago

★ 640 Python
88 upvotes – 19 comments

Is AT&T a Monopoly in the Making?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/03/an-ex-regulators-take-on-at-t-buying-t-mobile/72761/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

The Joy of about:blank

http://hsivonen.iki.fi/about-blank/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

HTTPS is more secure, so why isn't the Web using it?

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/https-is-more-secure-so-why-isnt-the-web-using-it.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple

http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/pricing_should_be_simple

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

So you’re thinking about self-publishing an I.T. book?

http://www.keirthomas.com/Keir_Thomas_professional_website/Blog/Entries/2011/3/18_So_youre_thinking_of_self-publishing_an_I.T._book.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Greplin (YC W10) open sources exception collection system

https://github.com/Greplin/greplin-exception-catcher

15 years ago

Python Apache-2.0
75 upvotes – 7 comments

Regular expression to search for Gadaffi

http://stackoverflow.com/q/5365283/89806

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

https://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/khan-academy-and-the-effectiveness-of-science-videos/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

Waffles - Machine Learning command line tools

http://waffles.sourceforge.net/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

http://html5boilerplate.com/#v1

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Firefox 4.0 (stable) available for download on Mozilla's FTP

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/firefox-4-stable-available-for-download.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Four lines of code for The New York Times’ paywall

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Lorenz University: I can has degree?

http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2011/03/19/lorenz-university-i-can-has-degree/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

GiftRocket (YC W11) Lets You Send Gifts That Can Be Redeemed At Any Location

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/giftrocket-lets-you-send-gifts-that-can-be-redeemed-only-at-specific-locations/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHhwMm9jS1l6RTh4Q3RBZU1GRWE1R0E6MQ

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 71 comments

More Reasons Why Homeland Security Seizing Domain Names Is Unconstitutional

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110314/01204913484/more-reasons-why-homeland-security-seizing-domain-names-is-unconstitutional.shtml

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Sprint integrates Google Voice

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/sprint-integrates-google-voice.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 21 comments

When crisis hits

http://jacquesmattheij.com/when+crisis+hits

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Review my startup Munchery, solving "What's for dinner?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350977

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Google capital for startups

http://www.google.co.za/intl/en/umbono/program.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Introducing Nexus S 4G for Sprint

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-nexus-s-4g-for-sprint.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

Behold: Image view modes

https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

AOL, Meet Riak

http://www.progski.net/blog/2011/aol_meet_riak.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments
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