top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-29

Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/28/quadrocopters-juggle-balls-cooperatively-mesmerize-with-their-l/

15 years ago

314 upvotes – 79 comments

Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_355091782_4?ie=UTF8&node=2658409011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1XCE7Q7BHQQA2C69H0SW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1291940422&pf_rd_i=163856011

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 172 comments

How not to protect against SQL injection (view source)

http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 115 comments

Pipe: Infix syntax for Python

http://dev-tricks.net/pipe-infix-syntax-for-python

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 41 comments

Lessons from GitHub's First Year

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/03/29/ten-lessons-from-githubs-first-year.html

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 24 comments

Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

http://evhead.com/2011/03/obvious-next-step.html

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 64 comments

Google indexes Stack Overflow at a rate of 10 requests per second

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/84695/eeeeek-where-is-my-slow-performance/84701#84701

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 57 comments

Learn You a Haskell is now in print

http://learnyouahaskell.com/#book

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 65 comments

The infamous SCSH Scheme shell "Acknowledgements"

http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html#node_index_start

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 31 comments

How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 162 comments

How I (almost) got an internship at Google

http://ecarmi.org/writing/google-internship/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 132 comments

I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

http://adamconrad.posterous.com/i-hope-this-bubble-kills-the-app

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 63 comments

Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 93 comments

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/28/artificial-leaf

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

How to hide Ryanair

http://liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com/2011/03/search-engine-deoptimization.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fbi-wants-public-help-solving-encrypted-notes

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 154 comments

Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/stealth-payment-startup-stripe-paypal/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/riaa-lobbyist-becomes-federal-judge-rules-on-file-sharing-cases.ars

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/29/mozilla-launches-firefox-4-for-android-allowing-users-to-take-the-power-and-customization-of-firefox-everywhere-2/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 85 comments

Save your Cleverness

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Mar-29.html

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

AOL: Hand Over Crunchbase and Nobody Gets Hurt

http://bryce.vc/post/4187806633/aol-hand-over-crunchbase-and-nobody-gets-hurt

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Facebook’s Political Moves Should Terrify Us All

http://soshable.com/why-facebooks-political-moves-should-terrify-us-all/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

What Location Tracking Looks Like

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/what-location-tracking-looks

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Disregard ideas, acquire assets

http://www.quora.com/Xianhang-Zhang/Disregard-ideas-acquire-assets

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

edw519's Resume, Leonardo da Vinci Style

http://edweissman.com/my-resume-leonardo-da-vinci-style

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Greplin (YC W10) open sources Tornado and Twisted utilities

http://tech.blog.greplin.com/utilities-for-tornado-and-twisted

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 1 comments

Surviving a traffic surge: Three techniques to scale your site fast

http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-emergency-web-scaling/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Nokia Pure: Nokia's New Official Font

http://brandbook.nokia.com/blog/view/item62250/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 74 comments

Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

http://stream.thisisapipe.com/post/4185443892/amazon-cloud-drive-is-not-dropbox

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

How Digg is Built

http://about.digg.com/blog/how-digg-is-built

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

What was John Nash like as a professor?

http://www.quora.com/What-was-John-Nash-like-as-a-professor

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Against School - John Taylor Gatto

http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

23-year-old donates US$1M to support Waterloo student entrepreneurs

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/news/23-year-old-donates-us1-million-to-support-university-of-waterloo-student-entrepreneurs

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

Python Frontend for GCC

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/PythonFrontEnd

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

C++ object model and other internals explained with simple C code

http://www.avabodh.com/cxxin/cxx.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/29/023230/Europe-Plans-To-Ban-Petrol-Cars-From-Cities-By-2050

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

Rather hilarious & honest dev job posting

http://www.work.io/jobs/ai3lw/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

RED Epic camera - six times the resolution of HD video

http://khalednoorblog.com/?p=1226

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

Real Time Edge Detection in Haskell

http://disciple-devel.blogspot.com/2011/03/real-time-edge-detection-in-haskell.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

TechStars Raises $8 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/29/startup-incubator-techstars-raises-8-million/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

JFDI Britain: You don't need a business plan to #startupbritain

http://jfdibritain.com/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

IEEE: Pay $3000 and we'll remove your article's paywall.

http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.be4d708ccca114d8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=print_only&TheCat=2201&article=tionline/legacy/inst2011/mar11/featureopenaccess.xml

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gdzfi/iam_christopher_poole_aka_moot_founder_of_4chan/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Khan Academy for Two Year Olds? I Guinea Pig my Own Kids

http://3beebrothers.blogspot.com/2011/03/khan-academy-for-two-year-olds-i-guinea.html?spref=twhh%3D

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

AnyLeaf (YC S10) — Putting an End to the Old Supermarket Circular

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/03/29/anyleaf-putting-an-end-to-the-supermarket-circular/?single_page=true

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Behold The World's Largest Photo Ever Taken Indoor: 40 Gigapixels of Awesome

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/29/largest-photo-ever-taken-indoor-40-gigapixels-world-record/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Inline PHP-FPM Server Running on Node.js

https://github.com/davidcoallier/node-php

15 years ago

★ 400 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
48 upvotes – 21 comments

Napkin Entrepreneurs

http://steveblank.com/2011/03/29/napkin-entrepreneurs/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 32 comments

Your #1 Job As CEO

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/03/your-1-job-as-ceo.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

SSH Key Gen/Install Script. Automates Mass Distribution of SSH Keys

http://blog.mediafederation.com/andy-hawkins/ssh-keygen-distribution-skd-install-ssh-keys-automatically/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing Fowndr: A private network for startup founders (invites)

http://stugreen.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-fowndr

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 31 comments
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