top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-02

A violently true depiction of what war really is

http://www.mediumdifficulty.com/2012/03/01/call-of-apathy-violent-young-men-and-our-place-in-war/

14 years ago

627 upvotes – 254 comments

Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression

http://zakhomuth.com/sad-tired-and-alone-my-ongoing-battle-with-st-39237

14 years ago

362 upvotes – 96 comments

Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/illinois-judge-law-barring-recording-police-is-unconstitutional.ars

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 37 comments

Why is nobody using SSL Client Certificates?

http://pilif.github.com/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-certificates/

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 105 comments

Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely”

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120803-vortex-radio-waves-could-boost-wireless-capacity-infinitely

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 75 comments

Grace Hopper on nanoseconds

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/1/grace-hopper-to-programmers-mind-your-nanoseconds.html

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 35 comments

StackOverflow

http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2012/03/02/stackoverflow/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 185 comments

Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident

http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 59 comments

Linode Manager Security Incident

http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.html

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 99 comments

Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/robots-swarm-the-stage-at-ted.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 41 comments

RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a 'One-Time Thing'

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=239958

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 80 comments

iPads using iOS 6, high-res displays showing up in Ars server logs

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/ipads-using-ios-6-high-res-displays-showing-up-in-ars-server-logs.ars

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 71 comments

Mailgun Campaign Analytics: taking analytics beyond bulk email

http://blog.mailgun.net/post/18581472770/mailgun-campaign-analytics-taking-analytics-beyond

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 29 comments

An open challenge to PandoDaily

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/03/02/anOpenChallengeToPandodail.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

GitHub for Mac 1.2: Snow Octocat

https://github.com/blog/1067-github-for-mac-1-2-snow-octocat

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 76 comments

Cleo: the open source technology behind LinkedIn's typeahead search

https://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/cleo-open-source-technology-behind-linkedins-typeahead-search

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 12 comments

How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/03/02/can-html5-apps-be-as-fast-as-native-we-think-so/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

On CPU backdoors - Trusting hardware

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/03/trusting-hardware.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

More than $215,000 stolen from Bitcoinica in Linode incident

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66979.0

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

Wicked Problems - Problems Worth Solving

http://www.wickedproblems.com

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

iCracked (YC W12) Takes On The Geek Squad With Worldwide Local iPhone Repair

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/02/icracked-launch/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

How Eventual is Eventual Consistency?

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/03/02/Eventual-Consistency-and-PBS/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Germany should copy Silicon Valley's culture rather than their startups

http://medien.nrw.de/apollo-m/2012/03/01/thanks-for-ignoring-them-homework-for-a-european-startup-ecosystem/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 78 comments

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 1 Released.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-March/000156.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Edits Quarterly

http://editsquarterly.com/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Don’t Ask Customers What They’ll Pay. Tell Them.

http://blog.spark59.com/2012/dont-ask-customers-what-theyll-pay-tell-them/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

HTTPS and Tor: Working Together to Protect Your Privacy and Security Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/https-and-tor-working-together-protect-your-privacy-and-security-online

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Netflix Loses Toy Story 3, Tron and 1,000 More Movies

http://mashable.com/2012/03/01/netflix-starz-goodbye/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 76 comments

Did the Titanic sink because of an optical illusion?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Did-the-Titanic-Sink-Because-of-an-Optical-Illusion.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 investment in Apple

http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/02/steve-jobs-used-patents-to-pressure-bill-gates-into-1997-investment-in-apple/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Retina display Macs, iPads, and HiDPI: Doing the Math

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/01/retina-display-macs-ipads-and-hidpi-doing-the-math/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Teacher effectiveness ratings, programmers, and Khan Academy's data

http://bjk5.com/post/18609999923/teacher-effectiveness-ratings-programmers-and-khan

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Basket.js: A simple script loader that caches scripts with localStorage

http://addyosmani.github.com/basket.js/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Hackers had 'full functional control' of Nasa computers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17231695

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Flypad (YC W12) Wants To Turn Your iPhone Into A Steering Wheel

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/02/flypad/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments
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