top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-23

MIT is a national treasure

http://cdixon.posterous.com/mit-is-a-national-treasure

15 years ago

525 upvotes – 150 comments

How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)

http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/22/how-we-got-owned-by-a-few-teenagers-and-why-it-will-never-happen-again/

15 years ago

405 upvotes – 188 comments

I wanna work at Instagram

http://iwannaworkatinstagram.com/

15 years ago

397 upvotes – 196 comments

Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh

http://www.switched.com/2011/03/22/mark-bao-tracks-laptop-thief/

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 186 comments

Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 97 comments

Django 1.3 released

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/mar/23/13/

15 years ago

256 upvotes – 40 comments

Time-saving tips for Linux

http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 85 comments

How Carrots Became the new Junk Food

http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1739774/print

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 81 comments

Paul Graham spills: Why some companies get his cash and others don't

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219377

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 167 comments

Why you should never ask permission to clean up code.

http://cdevroe.com/notes/code-maintenance-dont-ask/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 105 comments

How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses

http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/14/how-to-ace-calculus-the-art-of-doing-well-in-technical-courses/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments

From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4

http://fredericiana.com/2011/03/22/the-return-of-from-redmond-with-love/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 73 comments

Entrepreneurs: stop networking and showing off and get back to work

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/23/entrepreneurs-stop-networking-and-showing-off-and-get-back-to-work/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

What is Bitcoin? (Video)

http://www.weusecoins.com/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 133 comments

Mention @somebody. They're notified.

https://github.com/blog/821-mention-somebody-they-re-notified

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Web apps, credit cards, merchant accounts and PayPal

http://playnice.ly/blog/2011/03/23/web-apps-credit-cards-merchant-accounts-and-paypal/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day

http://anarchogeek.com/2011/03/23/old-twitter-email-160-users-after-three-months/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Guy Steele: Growing a Language (video 53:30)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415#

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Startup vs. Company

http://spencerfry.com/startup-vs-company

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Tout – How My Weekend Project Turned into a Real Lean Startup

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2011/03/tout-how-my-weekend-project-turned-into-a-real-lean-startup/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Bertrand Serlet to leave Apple

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23serlet.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Detroit is Dying… Quickly

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/03/23/detroit-is-dying-quickly/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 89 comments

Detecting Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browser-collusion

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

You’re not entitled to anything. Hustle for everything you’re worth

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/23/youre-not-entitled-to-anything-hustle-for-everything-youre-worth/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Thoughts on Convertible Notes

http://k9ventures.com/blog/2011/03/22/thoughts-on-convertible-notes

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

The Rip-Off Express

http://panic.com/extras/ripoff/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Eleven very short stories about SXSW

http://saladonions.tumblr.com/post/3999930602/eleven-very-short-stories-about-sxsw

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 4 comments

Red Hat Nearing $1 billion in revenue

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/red-hat-nearing-1-billion-in-revenue-not-bad-for-free-software/46445

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Trinity - Distributed Graph Database from Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trinity/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/03/ars-reviews-firefox-4.ars

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

Lifestyle business, defined

http://cubic-m.blogspot.com/2011/03/lifestyle-business-defined.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Fukushima made me pro nukes

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/why-fukushima-made-me-pro-nukes-20110322-1c4qk.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple hardware design coincidence?

http://unvisualdesign.tumblr.com/post/4042954624/i-dont-know-if-this-is-a-sign-of-apples-minute

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Movie Studio As a Service (MSAAS) - Tech Co-Founder Wanted

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/10700/technical-co-founder-cinecandy

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Stop Using Mocks

http://openmymind.net/2011/3/23/Stop-Using-Mocks

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/chrome-11-beta/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

Designers, Women, and Hostility in Open Source

http://smarterware.org/7550/designers-women-and-hostility-in-open-source

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: MicroEvent.js - js micro event emitter in less than 20lines

http://notes.jetienne.com/2011/03/22/microeventjs.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

The Hipmunk & Reddit formula: minimalist design; cute logo.

http://www.inc.com/articles/201103/how-hipmunk-learned-to-respect-its-users.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Advertising as a revenue stream

http://jacquesmattheij.com/advertising+as+a+revenue+stream

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Best journalism-job want ad ever.

http://motherjones.tumblr.com/post/4046557808/the-best-journalism-job-want-ad-ever-ever

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple replaces Samba for Windows networking services

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Launches a Quarterly Online Magazine

http://newsgrange.com/think-quarterly-google-launches-its-own-online-magazine

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

San Diego: Join us for Hacker News meetup #15 (Fri 3/25)

http://anyvite.com/olm0o3fifb

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

A Challenge To Startup Lawyers

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/a-challenge-to-startup-lawyers.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Questions VCs Will Ask You

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/03/questions-vcs-will-ask-you.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments
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