top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-09

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys/

14 years ago

478 upvotes – 98 comments

Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon

http://brianrue.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/pycon-2012-notes-paul-graham-keynote/

14 years ago

321 upvotes – 119 comments

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-now-with-twitters-boot

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 55 comments

Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 127 comments

Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay

http://torrentfreak.com/police-plans-to-raid-the-pirate-bay-120309/

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 93 comments

Kara Is Self-Aware

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/03/kara-quantic-dream/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 155 comments

A fresh new Dropbox on the web

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=1005

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 46 comments

Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash

http://thenextweb.com/2012/03/09/green-dot-acquires-location-based-services-pioneer-loopt-for-43-4-million-in-cash/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 119 comments

Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 76 comments

Blur.js: Produce psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements.

http://www.blurjs.com/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 28 comments

IE9 pwn2owned with 0-day with exploit working back from IE6 to IE10 on Windows 8

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwn2own-2012-ie-9-hacked-with-two-0day-vulnerabilities/10621

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 22 comments

Angry Birds in space

http://space.angrybirds.com/announcement/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 39 comments

Google's New Cross Platform Gaming Library PlayN

https://developers.google.com/playn/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

Reddit PAC aims to kick SOPA's daddy Lamar Smith out of Congress

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/reddit-pac-aims-to-kick-sopa.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 19 comments

Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators

https://www.insightcommunity.com/step2/311/why-i-pirate-an-open-letter-to-content-creators

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 139 comments

GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/121861-goflow-a-diy-tdcs-brain-boosting-kit

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app

http://www.airgramapp.com

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-from-play-framework.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Learning from competition

http://www.marco.org/2012/03/08/learning-from-competition

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

LSD helps to treat alcoholism

http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 110 comments

VC Insanity, Explained

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Examples of Lisp formatting through history

http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com/2012/03/few-examples-of-lisp-code-typography.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 43 comments

Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/09/tether-launches-html5-based-iphone-tethering-solution/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

AIDE - Java IDE for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5haWRlLnVpIl0.

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

The iPad Is Unbeatable

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/new_ipad_how_apple_s_tablet_strategy_parallels_its_unbeatable_ipod_success_.single.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 154 comments

Common Lisp on Heroku

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/TKM3eFyObLw

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 12 comments

Why are companies defecting from Google Maps?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/why-are-companies-defecting-from-google-maps/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

LulzSec indictment published

http://www.scribd.com/doc/84156085/Lulzseclegalled

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 64 comments

I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

http://skrivr.com/samuel/general/iphonelessons

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Wine 1.4

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wine-1-4-sports-a-redesigned-audio-stack-improved-graphics-rendering-1466284.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Mika Mobile ends Android development

http://mikamobile.blogspot.com/2012/03/our-future-with-android.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

CSS Social Buttons

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-social-buttons

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

This Meeting Has Cost.. (javascript ticker)

http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

HireArt (YC W12) Helps employers screen job applicants through work samples

http://hireart.com

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

House passes JOBS Act. What the new crowdfunding bill means for startups

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/08/jobs-act-passes-crowdfunding-bill-startups/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Terminal IDE: full-featured terminal/shell/SDKs on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

Shovel: Rake for Python

https://github.com/seomoz/shovel

14 years ago

★ 658 Python MIT
70 upvotes – 24 comments

Learning to code? Tired of feeling stupid? Try Bloc (use code 'LNCH')

http://www.trybloc.com/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog

http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 55 comments

Go nameless to your next conference

http://www.webiphany.com/2012/03/09/go-nameless-to-your-next-conference/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

The Web Developer's Interactive Cheatsheet for SEO and the Open Graph

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-web-developers-interactive-cheatsheet-for-seo-and-the-open-graph

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

A Better Live Wiki: HackPad (YC W12) at SXSW

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/hackpad/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

School for quants - Inside UCL's Financial Computing Centre

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0664cd92-6277-11e1-872e-00144feabdc0.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

Sellfy found way how to sell files

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/03/09/sellfy-lets-you-sell-your-digital-goods-through-twitter-and-facebook/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

An in-depth look at the performance of guile's web server

http://www.wingolog.org/archives/2012/03/08/an-in-depth-look-at-the-performance-of-guiles-web-server

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 1 comments

Space Monkey Dropbox Competitor Wins Launch, Has Already Raised $750K

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/space-monkey-launch/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments
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