top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-08

TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/breaking-tsa-threatens-mainstream-media-not-to-cover-story/

14 years ago

745 upvotes – 149 comments

Viral Video About Body Scanners

http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.html

14 years ago

448 upvotes – 198 comments

Advice From An Old Programmer

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html

14 years ago

429 upvotes – 122 comments

OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple

http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 151 comments

Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/kaspersky-duqu-trojan-uses-unknown-programming-language/10625

14 years ago

363 upvotes – 118 comments

Learning from 20 years of personal analytics

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

14 years ago

352 upvotes – 59 comments

Live ships map

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 51 comments

The Evolution of a Python Programmer

https://gist.github.com/289467

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 40 comments

New Reddit CEO reporting for duty

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/03/new-reddit-ceo-reporting-for-duty.html

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 41 comments

Responsive.is

http://responsive.is/

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 36 comments

The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck.

http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/go-review

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 108 comments

A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar

https://github.com/ChiperSoft/Kalendae

14 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript MIT
178 upvotes – 36 comments

An Open Letter to Warby Parker

http://classicspecs.tumblr.com/post/18945992371/an-open-letter-to-warby-parker

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 73 comments

What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3131-what-being-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-does-for-our-bottom-line

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 67 comments

npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts

https://gist.github.com/2001456

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 79 comments

What if doing your best -- at what you're best at -- isn't enough?

http://www.tedquarters.net/2012/03/07/the-lobster-pot/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?

http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-apple-are-thieving-bastards/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 65 comments

How I built my blog in one day

http://erjjones.github.com/blog/How-I-built-my-blog-in-one-day/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Raspberry Pi: Manufacturing Hiccup

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 43 comments

Twitter uses SPDY

https://skitch.com/igrigorik/8egi2/chrome-net-internals-eventsandq-type-spdy-session-20is-active

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/164922/GDC_2012_How_Valve_made_Team_Fortress_2_freetoplay.php

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

The Cost of Cracking

http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/#cost-of-cracking

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom

http://liamkaufman.com/blog/2012/03/08/scraping-web-pages-with-jquery-nodejs-and-jsdom/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Sonalight (YC W12) Lets You Text While Driving Without Touching A Phone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/sonalight-lets-android-users-text-while-driving-without-touching-a-phone/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Petridish.org, a kickstarter for scientific research

http://www.petridish.org

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

MIT awards pirate certificates to undergraduates

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-03/arts/31115703_1_pirate-day-mit-physical-education

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

New Medium Instance, 64-bit bit Ubiquity, SSH Client

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/ec2-updates-new-instance-64-bit-bit-ubiquity-ssh-client.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

The Mystery of 18 Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

Anonymous hacks Panda Security in response to LulzSec arrests

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-hacks-panda-security-in-response-to-lulzsec-arrests/10542

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Open, moral and pragmatic

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419287

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Gazehawk Team (YC S10) Joins Facebook

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/gazehawk-team-joins-facebook/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Some evidence on multi-word passphrases

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/03/07/some-evidence-on-multi-word-passphrases/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Sublime Text Plugin: Activate & reload Chrome with a keyboard shorcut

https://github.com/gcollazo/BrowserRefresh-Sublime

14 years ago

★ 562 Python
63 upvotes – 17 comments

C++11 threads tutorial

http://solarianprogrammer.com/2012/02/27/cpp-11-thread-tutorial-part-2/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Jim Clark: The Comeback Billionaire Who Bet On Apple

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/03/08/jim-clark-the-comeback-billionaire-who-bet-on-apple/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

'Petridish' Aims To Crowdfund Science And Research Projects

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/petridish-aims-to-crowdfund-science-and-research-projects/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

George Dyson's continued downplaying of British computing efforts is tiresome

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/george-dysons-continued-downplaying-of.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Songkick Secures Sequoia's First Ever UK Investment with a $10M B Round

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/songkick-secures-sequoias-first-ever-uk-investment-with-a-10m-b-round/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

The SendHub API: Heroku for Twilio

http://blog.sendhub.com/post/18954293816/api-launch

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 42 comments

Angelina is a computer AI that builds games all by itself

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853360/angelina-computer-ai-builds-games-all-by-itself

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57391989-250/dropbox-rival-space-monkey-puts-cloud-in-your-house/#ixzz1oX8i677s

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 59 comments
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