top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-01

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years?sc=fb&cc=fp

14 years ago

1154 upvotes – 172 comments

Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/422-notch-gives-3-million-to-mojang-employees/

14 years ago

694 upvotes – 209 comments

Give it five minutes

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes

14 years ago

620 upvotes – 71 comments

Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen

http://bitcoinmedia.com/compromised-linode-coins-stolen-from-slush-faucet-and-others/

14 years ago

321 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail

http://www.streak.com

14 years ago

306 upvotes – 95 comments

Save My House From Apple

http://savemyhousefromapple.com/

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3652041

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 294 comments

Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/03/01/why-upgrading-your-linux-kernel-will-make-your-customers-much-happier

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 55 comments

PHP 5.4.0 released

http://php.net/downloads.php#v5

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 97 comments

Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s

http://www.storytotell.org/essays/74-response.html

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 53 comments

NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 30 comments

About 33 bits

http://33bits.org/about/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 37 comments

Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’

http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-first-TV-interview-Im-no-piracy-king/tabid/817/articleID/244830/Default.aspx

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 110 comments

Basics of jQuery

http://andreehansson.se/the-basics-of-jquery/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 14 comments

Pull this up in your Android or iOS browser: Defense

http://m.lostdecadegames.com/onslaught_defense/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 42 comments

Building data structures that are smaller than an array and faster (in C)

http://siganakis.com/challenge-design-a-data-structure-thats-small

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Chrome to be deployed by US State Department

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/chrome-to-be-deployed-on-state-department-computers-worldwide-2012031/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

FourSquare switches from Google Maps to Open Street Map

http://m.engadget.com/default/classic/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/01/foursquare-replaces-google-maps-with-openstreetmap-mapboxstreets/&icid=eng_latest_art

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

HNHiring.me: A pleasant interface for the monthly hiring posts

http://hnhiring.me

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-us-govt-is-protecting-an-outdated-monopolistic-business-model-120301/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 94 comments

Confirmed: Windows Azure downtime caused by leap-day bug

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/01/windows-azure-service-disruption-update.aspx

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

From project to profession: going indie on NewsBlur

http://blog.newsblur.com/post/18561597889/going-full-time

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Neil deGrasse Tyson Doing an IAmA on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qccer/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ask_me_anything/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Evaluate Your Startup Idea Part 1: The Basics

http://mattmaroon.com/2012/03/01/how-to-evaluate-your-startup-idea-part-1-the-basics/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3652044

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 113 comments

Elixir: Ruby-like Syntax and Homoiconicity for Erlang VM

http://elixir-lang.org/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Square Gets Approved for New York City Taxicab Pilot

http://allthingsd.com/20120301/square-gets-approved-for-new-york-city-taxicab-pilot/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

How Twitter broke Twitter

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/twitter-broke-twitter/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Subway, a persistent web client for IRC

https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

14 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript
84 upvotes – 38 comments

Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/silicon-valleys-humble-billionaire

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

50 things I learned at 500 Startups

http://www.dowdydesign.com/adventuresinstartupland/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

How To Kill Patent Trolls

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/02/article_one_partners_how_a_bunch_of_amateur_sleuths_are_stamping_out_patent_trolls_.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Black and White

http://raganwald.posterous.com/black-and-white

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

The mathematics in M.C.Escher's pictures

http://www.ams.org/notices/200304/fea-escher.pdf

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

Enyo Framework Cross Platform and Cross Browser UI Widgets

http://enyojs.com/samples/onyxsampler/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Making of an iPhone app design (Sharypic)

http://sachagreif.com/making-of-sharypic-for-iphone/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

GCC 4.6.3 Released

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00006.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Impressive: Video and voice calls in your browser without a plugin in sight

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/03/01/impressive-video-and-voice-calls-in-your-browser-without-a-plugin-in-sight/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=Impressive%3A%20Video%20and%20voice%20calls%20in%20your%20browser%20without%20a%20plugin%20in%20sight&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Our custom Django mixins

http://brack3t.com/our-custom-mixins.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Yammer pulls down $85 million in venture funding

http://www.itworld.com/software/254902/yammer-pulls-down-85-million-venture-funding

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 36 comments

Visualizing SSH Attacks in Video (Python and Matplotlib)

http://www.wallix.org/2012/02/29/pylogsparser-visualizing-ssh-attacks-in-video/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Big Data's invisible open source community

http://www.itworld.com/big-datahadoop/254898/wild-west-big-data

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments
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