top 50% 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

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 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

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

Python 3.3 reintroduces explicit Unicode literals to ease porting

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Ireland is the best place in the world for a start-up

http://blog.dingadeal.com/irish-start-ups/why-ireland-is-the-best-place-in-the-world-for-a-start-up/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

The Zen of R

https://gist.github.com/2053607

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

I'd Love to Move, but I Can't

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-go-nowhere-generation-speaks-id-love-to-move-but-i-cant/254579/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: TheReelBox, find tonight's movie

http://thereelbox.com/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

RSA public exponent size

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/03/16/rsae.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Using Git with Dropbox

http://solarianprogrammer.com/2012/03/15/git-repo-dropbox/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 59 comments

Indian Court Orders SOPA-style Blackout of 100+ Music Sites

http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-sopa-style-blackout-of-100-music-sites-120316/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Rise of the Hack

http://www.tokbox.com/blog/rise-of-the-hack/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

I'm moving to Silicon Valley and living in my car

http://kurtvarner.com/post/19347794553/man-car-startup

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 102 comments

Recruiting the Top 1 Percent (2007)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 56 comments

Lawrence Lessig's New Book: One Way Forward

http://oneway.lessig.org/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Y Combinator's First Web Site

http://web.archive.org/web/20050324062234/http:/ycombinator.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Anant Agarwal is leaving CSAIL to direct MITx

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N12/agarwal.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Computer Professionals Update Act seeks to remove overtime pay for IT workers

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/computer-professionals-update-act-seeks-to-remove-overtime-pay-for-it-pros/3699

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Users Don't (And Shouldn't) Trust Startups

http://tech.li/2012/03/why-users-dont-and-shouldnt-trust-startups/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Understanding PHP's internal function definitions

http://nikic.github.com/2012/03/16/Understanding-PHPs-internal-function-definitions.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

MySQL Alternatives to MySQL

http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2012/03/15/mysql-alternatives-to-mysql/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

RIAA and ISPs to police your traffic starting July 12

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/riaa-and-isps-to-police-your-traffic-starting-july-12.ars

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Walmart buys a Facebook-based calendar app to get a look at customers' dates

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/wal-mart-buys-a-facebook-app-to-get-a-look-at-customers-calendars.ars

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Graphs in the database: SQL meets social networks

http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2009/09/07/graphs-in-the-database-sql-meets-social-networks/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments
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