top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-03-24

'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/23-8

14 years ago

464 upvotes – 175 comments

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

http://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-censors-pirate-bay-links-in-windows-live-messenger-120324/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 175 comments

Pair (YC W12) is a Path for the Two of Us

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/23/pair-is-a-path-for-the-two-of-us/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickmaps/id506283203?ls=1&mt=8

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 81 comments

How to explain your game to an asshole

http://www.pentadact.com/2012-03-17-gdc-talk-how-to-explain-your-game-to-an-asshole/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 36 comments

Consistent Hashing

http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/03/17/programmers-toolbox-part-3-consistent-hashing/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 10 comments

Startups, Fix Your "From" Field

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/24/startups-fix-your-from-field.html

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 61 comments

XBMC 11 is released

http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 61 comments

"BitC isn't going to work in its current form"

http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/bitc-dev/2012-March/003300.html

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 81 comments

The Plight of the Introvert [A Rant]

http://blog.edwardamsden.com/2012/03/plight-of-introvert-rant.html

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/23/too-hot-for-humans-but-google-servers-keep-humming/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 82 comments

Realtime Metrics for 128 Million Users with Redis: 50ms + 16MB RAM

http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metrics-using-redis-bitmaps

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/ff_aiclass

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem explained

http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excited-about-garbage-collection-in-ruby-2-0#

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Worldle- 24 Hour real time boggle HTML5 hackathon game

http://concavegames.com

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 52 comments

The YC Application Deadline is Now March 29 (1 day later)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750222

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

A Conversation with Guido about Callbacks

http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2012/03/conversation-with-guido-about-callbacks.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

YouPorn: Symfony2, Redis, Varnish, HA Proxy... (Keynote at ConFoo 2012)

https://joind.in/6123

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

ISS crew take to escape capsules in space junk alert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17497766

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments
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