top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-28

Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110327185437805

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Insult a Computer Scientist

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 93 comments

BreakDOM

http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/breakdom/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 20 comments

How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/03/28/how-did-the-new-york-times-manage-to-spend-40-million-on-its-pay-wall/

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 117 comments

James Gosling joining Google

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/next_step_on_the_road

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2376782

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 119 comments

We're all remote: how we deal with a 100% remote dev team

http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/39183993/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 80 comments

Mobile Boilerplate: a best practice baseline for your mobile Web app

http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 22 comments

The real reason people are mocking Color...

http://www.projectidealism.com/2011/03/real-reason-people-are-mocking-color.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 104 comments

Results for: Pick a number from 1 to 10

http://nfrom1to10.appspot.com/results/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 67 comments

The Little MongoDB Book available on GitHub

http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 11 comments

Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08)

http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/become-efficient-or-die-the-story-of-backtype

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything

http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/03/11-goal-hacks-how-to-achieve-anything.php

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 14 comments

Paul Baran, one of the engineers who created ARPAnet, has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&seid=auto

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 6 comments

Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4241

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 13 comments

Starcraft Network

http://slifty.com/2011/03/starcraft-network/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Jack Dorsey Takes Over Product Again at Twitter as Executive Chairman

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/jack-dorsey-takes-over-product-again-at-twitter-as-executive-chairman/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

Robots Are the Next Revolution, So Why Isn't Anyone Acting Like It?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/robots-are-the-next-revolution-so-why-isnt-anyone-acting-like-it

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

WWDC sold out in ten hours.

http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/about/?soldout

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 68 comments

(Android) Developer Income Report #8

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-8/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Major Canadian ISP admits throttling World of Warcraft

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/oops-major-canadian-isp-admits-throttling-world-of-warcraft.ars

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

I hope IPv6 never catches on

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201103#28

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 74 comments

ReactOS (open source Windows NT clone) accepted into Google Summer of Code 2011

http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_63.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Why designers need to stop moaning about 99designs.com

http://jasecooper.tumblr.com/post/4158734876/why-designers-should-stop-moaning-about-99designs-com

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 86 comments

How to evaluate a non-technical co-founder

http://blog.hirelite.com/how-to-evaluate-a-non-technical-co-founder

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Spend the Summer at Lightspeed

http://lightspeedvp.com/summerfellowships/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Review my startup: Housefed.com - Airbnb for food

http://housefed.com/#

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Why StartUp Britain is nothing more than a government backed link farm

http://postdesk.com/debates/why-startup-britain-is-nothing-more-than-a-government-backed-link-farm/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Letters from Fukushima: Tepco Worker Emails

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/28/letters-from-fukushima-tepco-worker-emails/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 0 comments

How To Lose 1% Of Your Customers With Just 1 Email

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/44779/How-To-Lose-1-Of-Your-Customers-With-Just-1-Email.aspx

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Wordpress to Jekyll - Everything you need to know about Jekyll

http://vitobotta.com/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Gilbc a bug and a Joke

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instances.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Startup Britain

http://www.startupbritain.org/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Fast JavaScript Max/Min

http://ejohn.org/blog/fast-javascript-maxmin/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Has C++ jumped the shark?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/18/has-cpp-jumped-the-shark/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

High-temperature Superconductor Spills Secret: A New Phase of Matter

http://home.slac.stanford.edu/pressreleases/2011/20110324.htm

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

The kivaloo data store

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-03-28-kivaloo-data-store.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development

http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Some harsh realities of being an entrepreneur

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/the-11-harsh-realities-of-being-an-entrepreneur/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

Concatenative Programming: An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programmng [pdf]

http://mitarbeiter.hs-heilbronn.de/~herzberg/Publications/ICSOFT.2009.pdf

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

SimpleGeo Launches ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/simplegeo-launches-storage-a-distributed-hosted-database-for-location-data/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Startups - don´t outsource coding [video]

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/tech/start-ups-dont-outsource-coding

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 15 comments

Bringing Ruby's ActiveRecord to Java

http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2011/03/28/bringing-rubys-activerecord-to-java/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 17 comments

Backbone-redis, model persistence with Socket.io and Redis pub/sub

http://sorensen.posterous.com/introducing-backbone-redis

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker

http://cryptome.org/0003/tor-spy.htm

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments

As a VC, how is a $41 million investment in Color, justified?

http://www.quora.com/Color-Labs-startup/As-a-VC-how-is-a-41-million-investment-in-Color-an-unproven-social-media-application-justified?srid=zhc

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments

How Grooveshark Uses Gearman

http://wanderr.com/jay/how-grooveshark-uses-gearman/2011/03/27/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

UX is 90% Desirability

http://www.getfinch.com/finch/entry/ux-is-mostly-desirability/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple announces WWDC: June 6-10, preview of OS X & iOS

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/28wwdc.html

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 25 comments

Tell HN: I can't find a fix. If you build it, I will be a paying customer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379305

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 31 comments

Crash Bandicoot - Teaching an Old Dog New Bits

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/27/crash-bandicoot-teaching-an-old-dog-new-bits-part-2/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 2 comments

Parody Color Competitor

http://reality.li/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 10 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments