top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-03-16

This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

14 years ago

564 upvotes – 225 comments

The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html

14 years ago

389 upvotes – 262 comments

The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2012/03/16/ipad_screen_microscope/

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 75 comments

Shutting down a product? Open source it.

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/19388751626/copycopter-is-now-open-source

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 46 comments

Audacity 2.0 Released

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/news?id=2012-03-13/2.0-release

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 63 comments

EMC Buys Pivotal Labs

http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-emc-buys-pivotal-labs/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-12/?tag=mncol;topStories

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 140 comments

TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/ted-talks-joins-netflixs-stable-of-streaming-content/29044

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 43 comments

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 100 comments

A+ for O'Reilly Customer Service: Keep the books and donate them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713513

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 53 comments

The myth of the overnight success

http://cdixon.org/2012/03/16/the-myth-of-the-overnight-success/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 36 comments

What you could do if you were Google and had their databases

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/What+you+could+do+if+you+were+google+and+had+their+databases

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 81 comments

The problem with having great ideas

http://nodemaker.posterous.com/the-problem-with-ideas

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 49 comments

Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

http://gabrielflor.it/water

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 30 comments

Instapaper for Retina iPad

http://www.marco.org/2012/03/16/instapaper-for-retina-ipad

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 76 comments

Ignore Everybody.

http://gapingvoid.com/ie/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 28 comments

Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/google-flushes-heat-from-data-center-with-toilet-water.ars

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)

http://preyproject.com/blog/2012/03/the-curious-case-of-our-ios-app

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Web pages can sniff to see what Chrome extensions you have installed

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118693&thanks=118693&ts=1331937415

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

Download Public User Data with Oink's Export Tool

http://www.cristinajcordova.com/2012/03/oinks-export-tool-data-privacy-breach-download-the-data-of-any-user-5/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 52 comments
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