top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-25

At least now we know why Color really got that funding

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/25/color-digging

15 years ago

403 upvotes – 155 comments

Facebook designers' novel approach to the usual name tag problems

http://fontsinuse.com/f8-conference-badges/

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 21 comments

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots

http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-to-do-to-return-google-to-its-startup-roots/

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 76 comments

Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/burned-by-twitters-api.php

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 90 comments

CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2011/03/25/fk-captcha/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 115 comments

Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac

http://applegrad.com/blog_files/flux-better-lighting-for-your-mac.php

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 98 comments

Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/microsoft-shuts-https-hotmail-over-dozen-countries

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 43 comments

Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/25/did-the-microsoft-stack-kill-myspace.html

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 195 comments

How I got sued by Facebook (2010)

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-got-sued-by-facebook.html

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 37 comments

My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer

http://kerebus.com/2011/03/my-year-as-an-amateur-android-game-developer/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 71 comments

Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in functional programming

http://kanak.kshetri.com/camping/?p=94

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 14 comments

Why O'Reilly Media doesn't use DRM

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0411/focus-tim-oreilly-media-e-book-antipiracy-steal-this.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-openness-withering-as-google-withhold-honeycomb-code.ars

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 115 comments

Bullet-proof Node.js coding

http://stella.laurenzo.org/2011/03/bulletproof-node-js-coding/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

A Behind the Scenes Look at Y Combinator's Demo Day

http://earbitscom.posterous.com/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-y-combinators-dem

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 5 comments

Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before

http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/06/timeboxing-you-will-work-like-never.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

http://popcornjs.org/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

So you want to do the SICP...

http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents.

http://notepag.es/introduction#

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch

http://bryce.vc/post/4085241146/the-anatomy-of-a-y-combinator-demo-day-pitch

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers

http://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-hire-net-programmers/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 75 comments

Samsung Introduces Completely Solar-Powered, Transparent TV

http://www.ecogeek.org/efficiency/3456-samsung-introduces-completely-solar-powered-tranpa?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EcoGeek+%28EcoGeek%29&utm_content=Twitter

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Intellectual Ventures Paid Consultant To Get Unions To Fight Patent Reform

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110316/23442113522/contract-dispute-reveals-that-intellectual-ventures-paid-consultant-to-get-unions-to-fight-patent-reform.shtml

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Android Honeycomb not immediately open sourced

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/google_will_not_open_source_android_honeycomb_on_release_of_first_devices/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0

http://www.marco.org/4073734086

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet (Video)

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/an-architect-squeezes-24-rooms-into-344-square-feet-video/72775/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Donald Knuth's IFAQ

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: What worked for us. With actual data, screenshots, and tips.

http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2011/03/phase-1-successful/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500

http://nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/dataminejune_2000.pdf

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

The real story behind Arch Linux package signing

http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-package-signing/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/color_ceo_the_tech_justifies_the_41_million.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d8c0ec7f82bc4a4%2C0

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 72 comments

The SF Hacker Loft

http://euwyn.com/post/4087921596/the-sf-hacker-loft

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems

http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/the-secrets-of-building-realtime-big-data-systems

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Fukushima Engineer Says He Helped Cover Up Flaw at Dai-Ichi Reactor No. 4

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/fukushima-engineer-says-he-covered-up-flaw-at-shut-reactor.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 71 comments

Aim Higher: Stop Building Photo Sharing Apps

http://www.cristinajcordova.com/2011/03/aim-higher-stop-building-photo-sharing-apps/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

All we will ever have

http://al3x.net/2011/03/23/all-we-will-ever-have.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Optimizely (YC W10) launches super simple behavioral targeting for A/B testing

http://blog.optimizely.com/optimizely-launches-behavioral-targeted-ab-te

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Lisp: a cult I almost joined (2005)

http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000127.htm

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 53 comments

Computer Vision is Artificial Intelligence

http://quantombone.blogspot.com/2011/03/computer-vision-is-artificial.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

SEO Tips for your Django Site

http://mitchfournier.com/2011/03/25/7-seo-tips-for-your-django-site/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

Here’s Why Google Is Holding Honeycomb Back

http://gigaom.com/mobile/heres-why-google-is-holding-honeycomb-back/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

India to block .XXX top-level domain

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/03/24/india-to-block-xxx-top-level-domain/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Pictorical, Crowd-illustrated books startup

http://pictorical.com

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 28 comments

Seattle Startup Thinkfuse Scores $500k

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/seattle-startup-thinkfuse-scores-500k-by-hanging-around-during-y-combinator-demo-day/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

Need your opinion on PadKite, the first multitouch mobile mouse...shoot

http://padkite.com

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 34 comments

Search is Google's castle, everything else is a moat.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 23 comments

Mozilla admits to mishandling Comodo disclosure

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/03/25/comodo-certificate-issue-follow-up/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 5 comments

The iPad is 99% more open than any other computer

http://jpteti.com/post/4072771125/the-ipad-is-99-more-open-than-any-other-computer

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 58 comments

Why mobile is way bigger than you realize

http://go.danielodio.com/waybigger

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 17 comments

JavaScript Mindmap (with cool demo)

https://github.com/kennethkufluk/js-mindmap

15 years ago

★ 601 JavaScript MIT
39 upvotes – 7 comments
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