top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-22

Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You

http://tacocopter.com/

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 176 comments

Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/isp-storing-25-petabytes-of-megaupload-data-costs-us-9000-a-day.ars?clicked=related_right

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 133 comments

How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-Coverage-For-Your-Startup-A-Complete-Guide.aspx

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 32 comments

Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis

http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 156 comments

How Reddit ranking algorithms work

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 29 comments

To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/pirate-airships-an-alternative.html

14 years ago

228 upvotes – 115 comments

Think Hiring a Ruby Developer is Hard? Try Staffing a Nuclear Reactor Startup

http://bostinno.com/2012/03/22/think-hiring-a-ruby-developer-is-hard-try-staffing-a-nuclear-reactor-startup/

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 81 comments

Are you building a company, or your credentials?

http://geofflewis.org/2012/03/22/credentials/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 58 comments

Today I wrote some code

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/today+I+wrote+some+code

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

PhantomJS 1.5 released (headless WebKit with JavaScript API)

http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/ReleaseNotes

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 43 comments

Introducing Flow from Mixpanel

http://flow.mixpanel.com

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/paul-graham-the-commons-and-how-google-stopped-being-google/254917/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 103 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcsfull.pdf

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 25 comments

Java Tuning in a nutshell

http://randomlyrr.blogspot.it/2012/03/java-tuning-in-nutshell-part-1.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 4 comments

Chrome beats IE market share for one day

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/chrome_number_one_for_a_day/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 70 comments

WebKit Limit on Retina JPG Image Display

http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/03/webkit_retina_bug

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Your Facebook password should be none of your boss' business

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/your-facebook-password-should-be-none-your-boss-business

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 102 comments

GPS ruling is "hard" on the FBI—and that's a feature, not a bug

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/gps-ruling-is-hard-on-the-fbiand-thats-a-feature-not-a-bug.ars

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Paul Graham, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is

http://blog.helioid.com/2012/03/paul-grahams-frighteningly-ambitious-ideas/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

The Proof Is Trivial

http://theproofistrivial.com/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 17 comments

GCC celebrates its 25th anniversary with the release of 4.7.0

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/125441

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Just start an experiment, not a damn startup

http://blog.fanchimp.com/just-start-an-experiment-not-a-damn-startup/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Are Web Development Search Results Being Manipulated?

http://www.impressivewebs.com/web-development-search-results-manipulated/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Multi-Region Latency Based Routing now Available for AWS

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/latency-based-multi-region-routing-now-available-for-aws.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

How Codecademy (YC S11) Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/03/22/codecademy/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

France announces crackdown on people reading extremist Web sites

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/22/us-france-crime-idUSBRE82I07N20120322

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 69 comments

I'm not good enough to work on open source software

http://journal.dedasys.com/2012/03/22/im-not-good-enough-to-work-on-open-source-software

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 73 comments

Introduction to JavaScript source maps

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Hacker Trade - Applying YC's philosophy to freelance contracting

http://hackertrade.com/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Comparison of open-source licenses

http://e1ven.com/2012/03/21/comparison-of-open-source-licenses/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Ember.js - Rich Internet Applications Done Right

http://www.infoq.com/articles/emberjs

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Declined to Join Apple

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-linux-linus-tovalds-steve-jobs,15082.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 70 comments

It’s Not the File Size That’s Killing iPad Magazines

http://bcolbow.tumblr.com/post/19708636095/its-not-file-size-thats-killing-ipad-magazines

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Photoshop CS6 beta now available to download

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123179-photoshop-cs6-plenty-of-goodies-for-everyone

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments

Need a PhD Topic? How about cops in traffic

http://blogs.confusticate.com/jeremy/2012/03/22/need-a-phd-topic-how-about-cops-in-traffic/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

Code iOS Apps in OCaml

http://psellos.com/ocaml/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Decision Trees in C#

http://crsouza.blogspot.com/2012/01/decision-trees-in-c.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

HumbledMBA acquired by 42Floors (YC W12)

http://www.humbledmba.com/humbledmba-acquired-by-42floors

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Update on Java's Fork/Join from Doug Lea

http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2012-January/008987.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Persona: Mozilla's BrowserID Service

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/18038609895/introducing-mozilla-persona

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Senate Passes Amended Crowdfunding Bill, Emulating Kickstarter Model

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/senate-passes-amended-crowdfunding-bill-emulating-kickstarter-model.php

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Defends DMCA's Safe Harbors Against MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120321/04031218178/google-defends-dmcas-safe-harbors-against-mpaas-attempts-to-reinterpret-them-hotfile-case.shtml

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments

Seamless SPDY support for existing web servers (SPDY-HTTP reverse proxy)

https://github.com/pquerna/spedye

14 years ago

★ 154 C Apache-2.0
53 upvotes – 18 comments

Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/f35-budget-disaster/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 77 comments

Apology from Geeklist

http://gklst.tumblr.com/post/19734620901/geeklist-and-a-public-apology

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments

Gambling with the devil: A/B tests done right

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/gambling-with-the-devil-ab-tests-done-right/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 1 comments

CodePlex now supports Git

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2012/03/21/git-commit-m-codeplex-now-supports-git.aspx

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 26 comments

Continuous Cache Warming for Rails

http://stdout.heyzap.com/2012/03/21/continuous-cache-warming-for-rails/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 20 comments
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