top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-20

Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%

http://blog.kicksend.com/how-we-decreased-sign-up-confirmation-email-b

14 years ago

561 upvotes – 100 comments

From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)

http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/03/from-yc-rejection-to-10000-users-in-1-month/

14 years ago

459 upvotes – 120 comments

Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5

http://azizansari.com/

14 years ago

380 upvotes – 140 comments

Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 67 comments

The Starter, the Architect, the Debugger and the Finisher

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Debugger+and+the+Finisher

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 66 comments

Step by Step UI Design

http://sachagreif.com/ebook

14 years ago

315 upvotes – 117 comments

All of Einstein's writings are now online

http://alberteinstein.info/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 23 comments

Open-plan offices must die

http://mattrogish.com/blog/2012/03/17/open-plan-offices-must-die/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 179 comments

Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

14 years ago

259 upvotes – 64 comments

Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 77 comments

Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/mr-linux/

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 82 comments

I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3728316

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 191 comments

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/ff_reddit/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 43 comments

Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives on their way

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/122921-seagate-hits-1-terabit-per-square-inch-60tb-drives-on-their-way

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Icon Fonts are Awesome

http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 47 comments

Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (2010)

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/my-father-final-gift/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 10 comments

SourceMaps in Chrome allow debug of any source language compiled to JS

https://plus.google.com/u/1/110412141990454266397/posts/Nvr6Se6eAPh

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 32 comments

$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 66 comments

SpaceX CEO claims he can send you on a round-trip to Mars for $500K

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122923-spacex-ceo-claims-he-can-send-you-on-a-round-trip-to-mars-for-500k

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 86 comments

Why Top Talent Leaves

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/01/18/why-top-talent-leaves-top-10-reasons-boiled-down-to-1/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 56 comments

Customize Gmail's Buttons: Replace Icons With Text

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/03/customize-gmails-buttons-replace-icons.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 39 comments

How to hang a picture using n nails such that removing any k nails makes it fall

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3602v1

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 26 comments

Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed

http://gigaom.com/2012/03/20/zerocater/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 47 comments

Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/rogers-cybersecurity-bill-broad-enough-use-against-wikileaks-and-pirate-bay

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 10 comments

Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/learn-why-message-ended-up-in-your-spam.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 27 comments

Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images

https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-wrap-up

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

Sexism in Tech. Or: CloudMine pulls its sponsorship of API Jam.

http://blog.cloudmine.me/post/19639692371/sexism-in-tech

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 131 comments

Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite

http://bostinno.com/2012/03/20/boston-api-jam-publishes-eventbrite-with-sexist-language-enrages-community-sponsors-quick-to-pull-out/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 159 comments

The Box: Amazing demo using Sprite3D.js and CSS 3D Transforms

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/demos/detail/the-box/launch

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Fact based, data-oriented news

http://s0rce.com/issue-event/copyright-and-piracy-legislation

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Ham, a fast PHP router/microframework I hacked up last night

https://github.com/radiosilence/Ham

14 years ago

★ 384 PHP BSD-2-Clause
87 upvotes – 63 comments

Jetty gets 'SPDY'

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/03/jetty-spdy

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Without ads, Android apps could be more than twice as power-efficient

http://theverge.com/2012/3/19/2884902/android-apps-battery-efficiency-study

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Mozilla is looking for help for its browser-agnostic Web documentation

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/helping-with-the-mdn-what-about-linking-to-us/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast

http://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/500000-requestssec-modern-http-servers-are-fast/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn?

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-03-20-now-can-we-start-talking-about-the-real-foxconn/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Do The Labels Continue To Insist That 'Your Money Is No Good Here?'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120319/08404018158/why-do-labels-continue-to-insist-that-your-money-is-no-good-here.shtml

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 60 comments

How it feels when everyone you know gets laid off

http://staringispolite.com/blog/2012/03/20/how-it-feels-when-everyone-you-know-gets-laid-off/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

The joy of Perl

http://www.salon.com/1998/10/13/feature_269/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

Graphene

http://jondot.github.com/graphene/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Die EmacsWiki, Die

http://batsov.com/articles/2012/03/20/die-emacswiki/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Code-free Website Tour Builder

http://drawium.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

What else is new in c# 5

http://www.mindscapehq.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/18/what-else-is-new-in-c-5/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Server Side Upgrades

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/server-side-upgrades

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Gabe Newell talks wearable computers and why consoles should open up

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/valves-gabe-newell-talks-wearable-computers-rewarding-players-and-whether-w/all

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

How to build a news aggregator with backbone.js - Part 1

http://blog.topics.io/2012/03/15/how-build-news-aggregator-backbonejs-part-1/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 0 comments

Google Cloud Storage adds several highly requested features

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-adds-several.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GDBcode+%28Google+Developers+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

With Software, Small is the new Big

http://blog.wordnik.com/with-software-small-is-the-new-big

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: DroidEdit, a source code editor for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.droidedit

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments
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