top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-03-18

Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?

http://thepiratebay.com/blog/210

14 years ago

476 upvotes – 141 comments

Writing and Speaking

http://paulgraham.com/speak.html

14 years ago

415 upvotes – 229 comments

About those vector icons

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 40 comments

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 90 comments

Have a .com web address? Know the legal risks

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/have-com-web-address-know-legal-risks-ck-113355

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 75 comments

Video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch

http://io9.com/5893615/absolutely-mindblowing-video-shot-from-the-space-shuttle-during-launch

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 60 comments

Megaupload Seizure Order “Null and Void” Says High Court

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-seizure-order-null-and-void-says-high-court-120318/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

Are jobs obsolete?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 137 comments

Help Reddit build a recommender

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/lowwf/attempt_2_want_to_help_reddit_build_a_recommender/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 41 comments

UEFI : More ways for firmware to screw you

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11235.html

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 20 comments

Best Ultrabook for Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719720

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 172 comments

Lets Talk About Something Diabolical: A PyPy Intro (David Beazley PyCon keynote)

http://pyvideo.org/video/659/keynote-david-beazley

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access

http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/18/8200-strong-researchers-band-together-to-force-science-journals-to-open-access/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Why software sucks?

http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/46-why-software-sucks/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 81 comments

Why Systems Programmers Still Use C (2006)

http://bitc-lang.org/docs/papers/PLOS2006-shap.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 63 comments

The Benefits of Bilingualism

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of iPads on planes.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/disruptions-time-to-review-f-a-a-policy-on-gadgets/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 78 comments

Why This Is What Samsung Is Calling Ice Cream Sandwich

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/18/raphael

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

Getting 100x better search performance on Riak

http://blog.clipboard.com/2012/03/18/0-Milking-Performance-From-Riak-Search

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Reinventing coding for the iPad : edit the parse tree

http://slidetocode.com/2012/03/17/coding-reinvented-for-the-ipad/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments
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