top 50% 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

The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2012/03/borderlands-gun-collectors-club.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Why does Posix have recursive mutexes? Because of a dare.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/d835f2f6ef8aed99?hl=en&pli=1

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 14 comments

CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million +

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/12/cnn-to-buy-social-media-blog-mashable-for-200-million-a-little-bird-tells-reuters-reporter/?awesm=tnw.to_1Dcix&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=CNN%20to%20buy%20social%20media%20blog%20Mashable%20for%20$200%20million%20,%20a%20little%20bird%20tells%20Reuters%20reporter

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 52 comments

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement

http://allthingsd.com/20120312/breaking-yahoo-sues-facebook-for-patent-infringement/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

Kickstarter for Science

http://www.petridish.org/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

Adding a new statement to Python

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-python/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Bootstrap 2.0.2 released

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/03/12/bootstrap-2-0-2-released/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/12/google-taming-the-long-latency-tail-when-more-machines-equal.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

The day Bill Gates called me rude — and other lessons in user experience

http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2012/03/12/the-day-bill-gates-called-me-rude-and-other-lessons-in-user-experience/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

http://stashmarks.com

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

Designing a Marketing Site: Know Your Customers and How They Decide

http://blog.intercom.io/know-your-customers-and-how-they-decide/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

New York City Subpoenas Twitter For Occupy Wall Street Protester Data

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new-york-subpoena-twitter-occupy-wallstreet.php#.T1485HYsXw4.hackernews

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.

http://tjwebb.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/im-calling-it-linux-is-finally-ready-for-the-world-meet-ubuntu-11-10/#comment-25

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 104 comments

Khan Academy on 60 Minutes

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7401696n&tag=contentMain%3BcontentAux

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: We'll guess competitors’ keywords,we'll predict your App Store position

http://blog.appcod.es/we-will-guess-your-competitors-keywords-we-will-predict-your-app-store-position/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company

http://alexlod.com/2012/03/12/10-facts-about-working-at-a-startup-vs-a-big-company/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Bethnal Green Ventures: a UK accelerator programme for stuff that matters

http://bethnalgreenventures.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863705/google-redesign-2007-kanna-killed-strawman

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python

https://github.com/ContinuumIO/numba

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Peter Thiel heads to campus

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/11/us-stanford-thiel-idUSBRE82A0EO20120311

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

A Brief Beginner's Guide To Clojure

http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/clojure/brief-beginners-guide/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Metaprogramming custom control structures in C

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/mp/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Draw and save circuits online

https://www.circuitlab.com

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Coursera / Stanford PGM Class is Open

https://www.coursera.org/pgm/auth/welcome

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Vim - Navigating files in vertical splits

http://yanpritzker.com/2012/03/12/vim-navigating-files-in-vertical-splits/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments
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