top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-15

Where’s _why?

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

14 years ago

548 upvotes – 186 comments

How Y Combinator Started

http://ycombinator.com/start.html

14 years ago

542 upvotes – 98 comments

No way I am calling you for a price

http://labaraka.tumblr.com/post/19249892253/no-way-i-am-calling-you-for-a-price

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 158 comments

Kevin Rose Will Join Google

http://allthingsd.com/20120315/exclusive-kevin-rose-will-join-google/

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 259 comments

Militarizing your backyard with Python, Arduino, and computer vision.

http://pyvideo.org/video/674/militarizing-your-backyard-with-python-computer

14 years ago

355 upvotes – 72 comments

Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js

http://blog.sendhub.com/post/19349219519/single-page-web-apps-with-backbone-js

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 51 comments

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man-who-broke-atlantic-city/8900/?single_page=true

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 90 comments

Vector based UI design tool that generates ObjC

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 78 comments

Diablo III coming May 15

http://us.battle.net/en/int?r=d3

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path

http://joelb.me/scrollpath/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 45 comments

Security vulnerability found in Nginx

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2012/000076.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 56 comments

Santorum Pledges Pornography Blackout Using Lawsuits & SOPA-style ISP Filtering

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/vigorous-santorum-crackdown-may-catch-internet-porn-viewers-with-pants-down/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 159 comments

Game Theory Explained: Why The Joker and Not Batman is Our Savior

http://thisorthat.com/blog/why-the-joker-and-not-batman-is-the-savior-of-us-all

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 50 comments

Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

https://github.com/Gazler/githug

14 years ago

★ 6.9k Shell MIT
154 upvotes – 29 comments

Lawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/opinion/lessig-goldman-sachs/index.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

My Git Habits

http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 62 comments

Sparrow for iPhone

http://sparrowmailapp.com/iphone.php

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

How I built a startup while working full-time in Finance

http://andypickens.tumblr.com/post/19345391305/how-i-built-a-startup-while-working-full-time-in

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 71 comments

$100 to Fly Through the Airport

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577281483630937016.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

Why we need Python in the Browser

http://archlinux.me/dusty/2012/03/13/why-we-need-python-in-the-browser/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 128 comments

Scala Macros: “Oh God Why?”

http://blog.empathybox.com/post/19126121307/scala-macros-oh-god-why

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 56 comments

Another EC2 outage (yet AWS dashboard says no error)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707590

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 76 comments

Amazon Data Center: 450,000 Estimated EC2 Servers

http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-size/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 14 comments

Python becomes a platform. Thoughts on the release of clojure-py.

http://khinsen.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/python-becomes-a-platform/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Judea Pearl, big brain behind AI, wins Turing Award (Nobel Prize in Computing)

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/031512-turing-award-257288.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Winning A Bidding War With Facebook, Google Picks Up The Entire Milk Team

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/15/winning-a-bidding-war-with-facebook-google-picks-up-the-entire-milk-team/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 70 comments

Algorithm Finds Thousands of Unknown Drug Interaction Side Effects

http://www.nature.com/news/drug-data-reveal-sneaky-side-effects-1.10220

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

Bulletproof email infrastructure setup guide

http://iafonov.github.com/blog/hardcore-email-infrastructure-setup.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Resources for JavaScript Developers

http://accidentaltechnologist.com/javascript/7-resources-every-javascript-developer-should-know/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Elon Musk Wants To Bring People to Mars—and Go There Himself

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/03/15/elon_musk_wants_spacex_to_help_establish_a_colony_on_mars_.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 109 comments

The Gentleman's Agreement

http://fr.anc.is/2012/03/14/the-gentlemans-agreement/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/super-secret-google-builds-servers-in-the-dark.ars

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer

http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit (Starbucks async processing model)

http://www.eaipatterns.com/docs/IEEE_Software_Design_2PC.pdf

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=20672

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Twitter sentiment analysis using Python and NLTK

http://www.laurentluce.com/posts/twitter-sentiment-analysis-using-python-and-nltk/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

iPad 3 4G Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/1

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Bring back the 40-hour work week

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

Caffeinated: The Beautiful Google Reader Client

http://theindustry.cc/2012/03/15/caffeinated-the-beautiful-google-reader-client-for-mac/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

About HTML semantics and front-end architecture

http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-architecture/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Crossroads I/O is a fork of the ZeroMQ project

http://www.crossroads.io/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

AJAX and Django Views

http://brack3t.com/ajax-and-django-views.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Microsoft Makes Fun of Older IE versions To Promote IE9

http://browserfame.com/543/microsoft-makes-fun-of-internet-explorer-older-versions

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

PyData 2012: Guido van Rossum discusses Python w/ the scientific community

http://marakana.com/s/2012_pydata_workshop_panel_with_guido_van_rossum,1091/index.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Daring Fireball: iPad (3)

http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/ipad_3

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 112 comments

Django 1.4 release candidate 2

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/14/14rc2/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

How I Built It: Dropbox

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577279393264468930.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

A new target for tech patent trolls: cash-strapped American cities

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/a-new-low-for-patent-trolls-targeting-cash-strapped-cities.ars

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Algorithms for generating new ideas for startups: servicing trends

http://www.toao.com/posts/algorithms-for-generating-new-ideas-for-startups-servicing-trends.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

So You Think You Can Freelance?

http://blog.grouptalent.com/2012/so-you-think-you-can-freelance/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Kay’s 8

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/15/kays-8/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Zigfu Dev Kit for Kinect and Unity3D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711142

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments
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