top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-06

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners/

14 years ago

1637 upvotes – 330 comments

Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

http://fortaweso.me/font-awesome/

14 years ago

711 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/03/06/why-are-lawyers-so-expensive-even-with-the-excess-supply-of-lawyers/

14 years ago

302 upvotes – 209 comments

Google Play

http://play.google.com/

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 107 comments

Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')

http://jack-shepherd.co.uk/experiments/Fake-Mouse-Cursor/

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 65 comments

Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18839832580/reddit-vs-hacker-news-vs-twitter

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 75 comments

How to Hire a Programmer

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/how-to-hire-a-programmer.html

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 144 comments

Colleges and Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10585353-govt-agencies-colleges-demand-applicants-facebook-passwords

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 178 comments

Git Magic

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 24 comments

The all-new Basecamp is live

http://basecamp.com/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 148 comments

Why Objective-C is Hard

http://ashfurrow.com/2012/03/why-objective-c-is-hard/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 148 comments

LulzSec brought down by own leader

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/hacking-group-lulzsec-swept-up-by-law-enforcement/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 130 comments

Sencha Touch 2.0

http://www.sencha.com/blog/announcing-sencha-touch-2

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropping Prices Again-- EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/dropping-prices-again-ec2-rds-emr-and-elasticache.html

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 71 comments

OpenSSL’s tools don’t support IPv6, patches unmerged without reason for 5 years

https://plus.google.com/108593031838085993726/posts/YKVxPMxF8m6

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 26 comments

Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 104 comments

Criticism is a Two Way Street - Things you should know before criticising

http://blog.intercom.io/criticism-and-two-way-streets/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 33 comments

Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/06/darrell-issa-acta-secretive-madison-open-treaty/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 23 comments

4 Years of HN Traffic

http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-5mar12.png

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 29 comments

How easy is it to buy YouTube views? $46 for 20,000 easy.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trutanich-video-20120304,0,4196656.story

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 46 comments

Dwolla Being Sued by Bitcoiners for $2 Million

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/03/06/dwolla-was-just-sued-by-bitcoiners-for-2-m/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 45 comments

Why the cloud isn't for your startup

http://bluescripts.net/2012/02/why-the-cloud-isnt-for-your-startup/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 60 comments

Top LulzSec hackers arrested, group leader reportedly working for FBI

http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/06/top-lulzsec-hackers-arrested-group-leader-reportedly-working-for-fbi/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

NLP Class is live

https://www.coursera.org/nlp/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

The Linux Setup, Noah Lorang, 37signals

http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/18755288267/the-linux-setup-noah-lorang-37signals

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 80 comments

Announcing the jQuery Foundation

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/03/06/announcing-the-jquery-foundation/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 5 comments

Vagrant 1.0 - Virtualized development for the masses.

http://vagrantup.com/?v1

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Annotated slides on d3.js from its creator Mike Bostock

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/d3/workshop/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

Packages: The Way Forward for PHP

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/03/packages-the-way-forward-for-php#.T1XrZ9iu6YI.twitter

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 69 comments

Financial Software Projects (C++) - NYU Fall 2011

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.3033-003/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

What the iPad 3 really needs: fewer stupid articles about the iPad 3

http://reverttosaved.com/2012/03/06/what-the-ipad-3-really-needs-fewer-stupid-articles-about-the-ipad-3/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

CSS4 Preview – Selectors

http://davidwalsh.name/css4-preview

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Why the Raspberry Pi will save the UK

http://petenelson.co.uk/2012/03/why-the-raspberry-pi-will-save-the-uk/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 121 comments

SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten

http://badassjs.com/post/18857332551/sql-js-sqlite-compiled-to-javascript-via-emscripten

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Akka 2.0 released (Scala and Java concurrency library)

http://akka.io/news/2012/03/06/akka-20-released.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

On Keeping Busy and Staying Sane in Startups

http://paulstamatiou.com/keeping-busy-staying-sane-startup-life

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

LED's efficiency exceeds 100%

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-efficiency.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/raspberry-pi-interview-eban-upton-reveals-all/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Programming Languages Class - Build a Web Browser (Free Class)

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Big Data + Machine Learning = Scared banks

http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/27/big-data-machine-learning-scared-banks/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Divide any number By 9, 90, 900 and so on in just 5 seconds

http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/01/dividing-by-9-90-900-and-so-on-into.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

What is 'Space' expanding into?

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qk58k/what_is_space_expanding_into/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments

CoffeeScript and Progress

http://peterlyons.com/problog/2012/03/coffeescript-and-progress

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments
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