top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-03-12

Posterous acquired by Twitter

http://blog.posterous.com/big-news

14 years ago

612 upvotes – 160 comments

Defining Property

http://paulgraham.com/property.html

14 years ago

551 upvotes – 299 comments

Paypal Does it Again

http://www.regretsy.com/2012/03/12/paypal-does-it-again/

14 years ago

486 upvotes – 149 comments

A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/12/dads-plea-developers-ipad-apps-children/

14 years ago

463 upvotes – 192 comments

Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions

http://sendthemyourmoney.com/

14 years ago

384 upvotes – 131 comments

Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity

http://sridattalabs.com/2012/02/06/rabbit-holes-being-smart-hurts-prod/

14 years ago

299 upvotes – 67 comments

The freedom to drink coffee

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-drink-coffee

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 190 comments

Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90%

http://blog.joingrouper.com/intro-to-social-hacking-how-we-lowered-our-ca

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 42 comments

Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute

http://blog.metricfire.com/2012/03/paul-graham-consistently-says-um-7-times-per-minute/

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 127 comments

A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/a-real-user-proves-windows-8-fails-on-the-desktop-20120312/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 247 comments

Show HN: I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices

https://github.com/csswizardry/CSS-Guidelines/blob/master/CSS%20Guidelines.md

14 years ago

★ 3.6k
223 upvotes – 86 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr10/cos433/mathcs.pdf

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 23 comments

Peter Norvig: Tweaking Bayes' Theorem

http://java.dzone.com/articles/tweaking-bayes%E2%80%99-theorem

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 35 comments

Lisp Machines

http://patrickcollison.com/blog/2008/04/lisp-machines

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 80 comments

JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil"

http://java.dzone.com/articles/jsonorg-license-literally-says

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform For Game Hosting

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/12/minefold-launch/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

CSS px is an Angular Measurement

http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 60 comments

Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/fb14de8b9ad84e15#

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 73 comments

Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122083-microsoft-unveils-universal-translator-that-converts-your-voice-into-another-language

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

From Miserable Launch to Decent Success in 3 Months, Thanks to Hacker News

http://www.stangeek.com/from-miserable-launch-to-decent-success-in-3

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments
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