top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-03-26

Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/congressional_t.html

14 years ago

630 upvotes – 96 comments

7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/26/7-years-of-youtube-scalability-lessons-in-30-minutes.html

14 years ago

504 upvotes – 70 comments

A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201203#26

14 years ago

436 upvotes – 90 comments

The universe is big. This big.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/

14 years ago

422 upvotes – 98 comments

"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"

http://skattertech.com/2012/03/i-won-the-windows-phone-challenge-but-lost-just-because/

14 years ago

408 upvotes – 75 comments

Redis persistence demystified

http://antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystified.html

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 24 comments

Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend

http://www.billthelizard.com/2008/12/books-programmers-dont-really-read.html

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 157 comments

16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecraft-Calculator-Graphing-MaxSGB-Scientific,15109.html

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 76 comments

Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-the-us-government-is-wrong-heres-why-120326/

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 189 comments

Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb

http://craig.is/making/rainbows

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 32 comments

Girls and Computers

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/03/25/girls-and-computers/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 84 comments

99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/99dresses-wants-to-give-women-an-infinite-closet/

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 146 comments

Notepad++ 6.0 Released

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.0-release.html

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 101 comments

Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js

http://www.backlift.com/index.html

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 50 comments

How I survived a plane crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17476615?ref=nf

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 63 comments

How I went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.ca/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 64 comments

Parse 1.0 is released

http://blog.parse.com/2012/03/26/parse-1.0-is-released/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 38 comments

Create your own programming language in JavaScript

http://nathansuniversity.appspot.com/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 27 comments

German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-pirate-party-election-304058

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 64 comments

For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

http://www.economist.com/node/21548963/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 153 comments
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