top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-19

Fluid windows

http://toki-woki.net/lab/fluid-corners/

14 years ago

341 upvotes – 103 comments

Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/welcome-to-the-post-pc-era.html

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 292 comments

Git project seeks discussion on "push" change

http://lwn.net/Articles/487131/

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 83 comments

60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50121782n

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 116 comments

Go is amazing, period.

http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2012/03/experiences-in-go-ing.html

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 231 comments

Why is the DOS path character "\"?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432386.aspx

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 66 comments

Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views

http://square.github.com/tesseract/

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 42 comments

The one interview question I always ask

http://codercofounder.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-one-interview-question-i-always-ask/

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 201 comments

Why I Don't Want to Learn Go

http://arantaday.com/why-i-dont-want-to-learn-go

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/19Apple-Announces-Plans-to-Initiate-Dividend-and-Share-Repurchase-Program.html

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 176 comments

Mysterious giant objects discovered in center of our galaxy

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/16mar_theedge/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 19 comments

Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?’

http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/neil_degrasse_tyson_how_much_would_you_pay_for_the_universe.html

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

James Cameron's entirely new submarine

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/science/earth/james-camerons-rocket-plunge-to-the-planets-deepest-recess.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

Don't use bcrypt

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 188 comments

Try and view the source

http://www.kurlak.com/john/source.html

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 79 comments

Why I like lots of languages, and Go is pretty neat too

http://blog.dhconnelly.com/2012/03/why-i-like-lots-of-languages-and-go-is.html

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 33 comments

Graphene supercapacitors are 20x as powerful, can be made with a DVD burner

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122763-graphene-supercapacitors-are-20-times-as-powerful-can-be-made-with-a-dvd-burner

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon-acquiring-kiva-systems-for-775-million/71976

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Meme generator for hipsters

http://www.pinwords.com/?s=hn

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

Google bans reddit client from Play Store for "sexually explicit material"

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/r3dhg/reddit_is_fun_banned_for_sexually_explicit/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 88 comments

CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/ceo-dares-microsoft-to-sue-him-over-virtual-desktops-that-flout-licensing.ars

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 50 comments

PHP source code now hosted on Github

https://github.com/php/php-src

14 years ago

★ 40k C BSD-3-Clause
138 upvotes – 14 comments

Slavery's last stronghold

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 102 comments

SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/03/spacex-prepares-for-april-30-launch-to-space-station/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Draw Something craze 'banks dev $100k per day'

http://www.develop-online.net/news/40228/Draw-Something-craze-banks-dev-100k-per-day

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Pay your employees more

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/03/26/120326ta_talk_surowiecki

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

DuQu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/duqu-mystery-language-solved/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Defends Hotfile in Court

http://torrentfreak.com/google-defends-hotfile-and-megaupload-in-court-120319/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

Linux 3.3 released

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/18/132

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Mozilla will support H.264 on OS that comes with it

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

42Floors (YC W12) Launches Commercial Real Estate Search Tool

http://betakit.com/2012/03/19/42floors-launches-commercial-real-estate-search-tool

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

What’s the best thumbnail for this page?

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/whats-the-best-thumbnail-for-this-page/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Think twice before analyzing/releasing your genetic data

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Your+Genetic+information+is+not+just+yours+but+it+is+family+property

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

SQLFiddle 2.0: Execution Plans, Better UI, client-side SQLite via sql.js

http://sqlfiddle.com

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

New iPad Tops Three Million

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/19New-iPad-Tops-Three-Million.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 64 comments

Talk Of GCC 5.0 To Be Modular, More Like LLVM

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3MzE

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Use your iPhone/iPad as a controller for an HTML5 browser game.

http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

138 Billion Units (Apple's Cash Position)

http://dcurt.is/100-billion-units-of-strategy

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

The death of Firefox

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116885-the-death-of-firefox

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 101 comments

Newspapers Lose $10 Dollars in Print for Every $1 Gained Online

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-19/newspapers-lose-10-dollars-in-print-for-every-digital-1

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 39 comments

Flask is awesome

http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2011/08/flask.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

http://www.jplayer.org/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Imminent "six strikes" Copyright Alert System needs antitrust scrutiny

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/op-ed-imminent-six-strikes-copyright-alert-system-needs-antitrust-scrutiny.ars

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Judge Chooses Pi Day To Reject Lawsuit Over Attempt To Copyright Pi As A Song

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120316/14275618144/judge-chooses-pi-day-to-reject-lawsuit-over-attempt-to-copyright-pi-as-song.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

History of income inequality in the US

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_great_divergence/features/2010/the_united_states_of_inequality/introducing_the_great_divergence.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 85 comments

Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-got-a-grip-on-awss-cloud-40095277/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

Currying in Python

http://mtomassoli.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/currying-in-python/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?

http://www.sofamoolah.com/personal/so-ive-invested-in-an-iphone-app/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I (A Woman) Stopped Telling Young Girls to Go Into Engineering

http://womanintech.tumblr.com/post/19549272757/why-i-stopped-telling-young-girls-to-go-into

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 45 comments

Smartphone password managers are largely insecure

http://www.elcomsoft.com/WP/BH-EU-2012-WP.pdf

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Enough with the QR Codes

http://ramisayar.com/enough-with-the-qr-codes/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 71 comments

Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57400104-37/woz-supports-mike-daiseys-message-and-says-you-should-too/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

Superior jQuery plugin template

http://www.websanova.com/tutorials/jquery/jquery-plugin-development-boilerplate

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments
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