top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-21

"Lighten up"

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/

14 years ago

1371 upvotes – 794 comments

Time Zones

http://everytimezone.com/

14 years ago

386 upvotes – 95 comments

Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

http://www.inception-explained.com

14 years ago

378 upvotes – 133 comments

Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/human-bird-wings/

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 154 comments

Body Hacking: Thoughts Regarding My Magnet Implant

http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-modification

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 138 comments

You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/how_to_get_paid_more/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 109 comments

How to Apologize

http://philomousos.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-apologize.html

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 173 comments

New OpenStreetMap tiles from Stamen: water color, black and white, terrain

http://maps.stamen.com

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 52 comments

What's that?

http://spottedsun.com/videos/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 60 comments

All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/all-icelands-public-administrations-moving-towards-open-source

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 26 comments

In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/in-memory-key-value-store-in-c-go-and-python/

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 56 comments

Rails is just an API

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/rails-is-just-and-api-and-that-s-ok

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: more sites like HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734303

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 94 comments

Apple's domains

http://ipod.com/init

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 56 comments

With EveryArt (YC W12) you don't have to be afraid of commissioning art

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/with-everyart-you-dont-have-to-be-afraid-of-commissioning-art/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 54 comments

Paul Graham has lost the plot

http://mishandrob.com/paul-graham-has-lost-the-plot/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 290 comments

Looks Like Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP For $200 Million

http://allthingsd.com/20120321/looks-like-zynga-just-bought-omgpop-for-200-million/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 154 comments

IAmA NASA Astronaut who recently returned to Earth and I am new to reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/r62jp/iama_nasa_astronaut_that_recently_returned_to/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

Epic Pull Requests

http://epicpullrequests.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 16 comments

A camera that can see around corners

http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-see-around-corners-1.10258

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments

Petition to put Alan Turing on the next £10 note

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 28 comments

We’re hiring a Lead Visual Designer

http://leadvisualdesigner.intercom.io/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

Unlearn, young programmer

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2012/03/21/Unlearn+Young+Programmer.aspx

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Free Unlimited Private File Sending (Beta)

http://www.wireover.com

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 81 comments

The Death Of The Hacker: InfoWorld 1986

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/the-death-of-the-hacker-infoworld-1986/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Streak.com (YC S11) Takes On Salesforce With A Simple CRM For Gmail

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/gmail-streak/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Your identity ≠ Your code

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/03/16/your-identity-your-code/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+collectiveidea+%28Collective+Idea+Blog%29

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Rapid Prototyping

http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2012/03/21/rapid-prototyping/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Computer Science Stack Exchange site is now up in public beta

http://cs.stackexchange.com/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

The Shadow Superpower

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/28/black_market_global_economy

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Lessons from a 40 year old (now with transcript)

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/03/my-webstock-talk.html?

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

MIT App Inventor

http://appinventor.mit.edu/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

OMGPOP’s Sale to Zynga Is One of Y Combinator’s Biggest Exits To Date

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/omgpop-iminlikewithyou-ycombinator/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Samsung releases Galaxy S II ICS source code

http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-releases-galaxy-s-ii-ics-source-code-20120319/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

How I built a business in a weekend (Or, the benefits of shared workspaces)

http://arshadchowdhury.com/740-how-i-built-a-business-in-a-weekend/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Surviving a bad RNG

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/03/surviving-bad-rng.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Support for PHP, with Git-based Deployment

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/aws-elastic-beanstalk-build-php-apps-using-git-based-deployment.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Ever wanted to programmatically file a lawsuit? In Poland, you can.

http://blog.danieljanus.pl/ever-wanted-to-programmatically-file-a-lawsui

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Pysandbox - a configurable Python sandbox

https://github.com/haypo/pysandbox/

14 years ago

★ 377 Python
59 upvotes – 6 comments

Silicon Valley's Hottest VC Is a Rug Dealer

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2012/03/21/silicon-valleys-hottest-vc-is-a-rug-dealer/?feed=rss_home

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Justices Back Mayo Clinic Argument on Patents

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/business/justices-reject-patents-for-medical-tests-relying-on-drug-dosages.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Graph of wikipedia articles semantic similarity (LSI, Python, d3.js)

http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=cyborg

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: ABBA - Beautiful, open-source A/B test calculator

http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

JQuery 1.7.2 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/03/21/jquery-1-7-2-released/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Android is almost fully supported with Linux kernel 3.3

http://www.androidcentral.com/linux-kernel-33-released-android-support-almost-complete

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments
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