top 50% 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

Build an IDE with tmux and vim

http://alexyoung.org/2011/12/19/build-an-ide-with-tmux-and-vim/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: do founders get a salary after raising angel round?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719030

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Speakers Earn 30k An Hour

http://oreilly.com/social-media/excerpts/9780596802004/why-speakers-earn-30k-an-hour.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Germany's unheralded computer inventor

http://blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/news/techman/33515-techmangermanys-unheralded-computer

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

RDP and the Critical Server Attack Surface

http://dankaminsky.com/2012/03/18/rdp/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

The Banks Win, Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-banks-win-again.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

In Sweden, cash is king no more

http://news.yahoo.com/sweden-cash-king-no-more-082544562.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Chat with HN users while you visit HN

http://rabblr.com

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Police court order Dotwrong

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10792862

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple Conference Call

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/18Apple-Conference-Call.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 85 comments

In China, millions make themselves at home in caves

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-caves-20120318,0,2352472.story

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Cheaper Than A Tablet: 'Rooting' Your E-Reader

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/27/134897271/cheaper-than-a-tablet-rooting-your-e-reader

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Computer hardware chart (Cheat sheet)

http://sprki.com/computer-hardware-chart.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Rails' new seamless integration with Amazon DynamoDB & S3

http://blog.daniellobato.me/2012/03/rails-and-new-seamless-integration-with-amazons-dynamodb-and-s3/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Separating bunk from fact in Malcolm Gladwell's performance

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2008/03/the_fibbing_point.single.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

How a Google Search Unraveled Mike Daisey’s Apple-Foxconn Story

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-03-16-how-a-google-search-unraveled-mike-daiseys-apple-foxconn-story/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

India: Funding Startups Could be Classified as Income

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no-startup-tax

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: My weekend project - Tool to manage all your social network settings

http://blisscontrol.com/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Bypassing the Password: Seeking Ways to Make the Computer Password Obsolete

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/business/seeking-ways-to-make-computer-passwords-unnecessary.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments
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