top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-23

Show HN: This up votes itself

http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742902&dir=up&whence=%6e%65%77%65%73%74

14 years ago

3531 upvotes – 82 comments

Codename: Obtvse

http://natewienert.com/codename-obtvse

14 years ago

889 upvotes – 355 comments

Frustro: The Impossible Typeface

http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/03/16/frustro-the-impossible-typeface/

14 years ago

556 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: A Way To Hack HN's Karma

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742742

14 years ago

472 upvotes – 33 comments

Django 1.4 final released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/23/14/

14 years ago

359 upvotes – 58 comments

MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons

14 years ago

341 upvotes – 120 comments

Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-legal-action-against-employers-asking-for-your-password/10768

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 144 comments

Why I quit medicine

http://gautams.posterous.com/why-i-quit-medicine

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 108 comments

agentzh's Nginx Tutorials

http://agentzh.org/misc/nginx/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-enuk.html

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 22 comments

Electric Potential Pong (html5/processing.js)

http://www.dllu.net/pong

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 17 comments

ZeroVM: lightweight containers based on Google Native Client

http://zerovm.org

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: KytePhone turns any Android into a kids-friendly phone

http://www.kytephone.com

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 69 comments

Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially worthless

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123529-nvidia-deeply-unhappy-with-tsmc-claims-22nm-essentially-worthless

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 76 comments

SIM Cards Must Die

http://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/2012/03/23/1/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Q&A for HN users

http://www.askolo.com

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

Cache Them If You Can

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/03/22/cache-them-if-you-can/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 15 comments

Free MIT Online Class teaches CS fundamentals using Python

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook will take action to protect the privacy and security of their users

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-and-privacy/protecting-your-passwords-and-your-privacy/326598317390057

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

You used Python for what?

http://speakerdeck.com/u/jtauber/p/you-used-python-for-what

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 32 comments

Start-ups: Understand what you mean when you say "market"

http://blog.intercom.io/chinese-gloves-and-addressable-markets/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 9 comments

Optimizing Solr (Or How To 7x Your Search Speed)

http://carsabi.com/car-news/2012/03/23/optimizing-solr-7x-your-search-speed/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/140925/25936

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

Python internals: how callables work

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/03/23/python-internals-how-callables-work/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 2 comments

"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World War II Poster

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

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 28 comments

Create 2D games in Lua and LÖVE.

https://love2d.org/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Self-contained, Internet-less Wikipedia machine.

http://thewikireader.com/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

The Essence of Blogging, A UI Experiment Inspired by Svbtle

http://staydecent.ca/bits/essence-of-blogging/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/557256:scientific-linux-the-great-distro-with-the-wrong-name

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Computer Science

http://tessrinearson.com/blog/?p=226

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 92 comments

GVM - the Go version manager

http://blog.moovweb.com/gvm-the-go-version-manager/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Help me Hack the Lottery or, the worst $90 investment ever

http://ssikes.com/post/19800951554/hack-the-lottery-or-the-worst-90-investment-ever

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 56 comments

Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/guess-whats-the-fastest-adopted-gadget-of-the-last-50-years/254948/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

Writing great Javascript

http://oli.me.uk/2012/03/14/writing-great-javascript

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Using Parse and Trigger.io for cross-platform apps without pain in the back-end

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/03/23/using-parse-and-trigger-io-for-cross-platform-apps-without-pain-in-the-back-end/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television

http://wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/birdman-admits-hoax/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

Clever PR: Facebook bends a non-story to their favor

http://rexriepe.com/2012/clever-pr-facebook-bends-a-non-story-to-their-favor/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Thinking Different

http://bradgessler.com/thinking-different.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Startup War Story: When The Team Falls Apart (Profitably)

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/23/exclusive-new-york-startup-profitably-loses-all-but-one-employee-ceo-adam-neary/2/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

What Every Start-up Should Know about PR

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/startup-pr

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments
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