top 50% 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

Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ability-to-learn-is-affected-by-the-12-03-24

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 30 comments

Keeping bash history in sync between multiple terminals

http://briancarper.net/blog/248/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 34 comments

The pull-to-refresh patent

http://dcurt.is/pull-to-refresh

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 112 comments

Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the world

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 72 comments

Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/leaky-relaunch/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 37 comments

Free book on Statistics for Programmers

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/thinkstats.pdf

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 7 comments

Colourlovers Buys Forrst

http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/26/colourlovers-buys-forrst-to-build-an-etsy-for-digital-bling/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Javascript is a Joy

http://allenc.com/2012/02/why-javascript-is-a-joy/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat

http://www.cringely.com/2012/03/linux-3-3-finally-a-little-good-news-for-bufferbloat/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 3 comments

An Enigma cipher machine implemented in an Excel spreadsheet by a non-programmer

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19946053957/enigma-spreadsheet

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

List of cognitive biases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

On the evolution of programming style: How far C++ has moved from its C roots

http://blog.feabhas.com/2012/03/on-the-evolution-of-programming-style/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 71 comments

JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection

http://shichuan.github.com/javascript-patterns/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Google told to halt auto-complete

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Google-told-to-halt-auto-complete/articleshow/12413586.cms

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Examples of beautiful Javascript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3894895/examples-of-beautiful-javascript

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies And Startups Today

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/exec-justin-kan-corporate-accounts/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

How I built a Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2

http://cheeaun.com/blog/2012/03/how-i-built-hacker-news-mobile-web-app_26

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Swagger: A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON

http://swagger.wordnik.com/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Askolo

http://askolo.com/patio11

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Data Pricing Sanity Maybe?

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/03/25/Mobile-data-pricing

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 61 comments

Google+: The Charge of the Like Brigade

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/google-the-charge-of-the-like-brigade/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Startup struggle, Crashing a party to get into 500 Startups

http://blog.safeshepherd.com/post/19975988812/startup-chaos-and-crashing-our-way-into-500-startups

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

MIT stacks solar panels like pancakes, increases their power output by up to 20x

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123719-mit-stacks-solar-panels-like-pancakes-increases-their-power-output-by-up-to-20x

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Double-Slit Experiment Carried Out with 114-Atom Molecules

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Double-Slit-Experiment-Carried-Out-with-114-Atom-Molecules-260810.shtml

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments

Curse of knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

FamilyLeaf (YC W12) Brings Your Kin Together In Its Own Private Social Network

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/familyleaf-brings-your-kin-together-in-its-own-private-social-network/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Big news: Forrst has been acquired by Colourlovers

http://blog.forrst.com/post/19956380482/big-news-forrst-has-been-acquired-by-colourlovers

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

HTML5 Canvas + JS Fireworks

http://jackrugile.com/lab/fireworks-v1/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Hacker Jobs is live and we want your feedback

http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/3/26/when-jonny-met-stevie

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

Interview with Richard Stallman, Founder of Free Software Foundation

http://www.alearningaday.com/2012/03/richard-stallman-was-at-national.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft Leads Sting Operation to Disrupt Zeus Botnets

http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-and-partners-disrupt-zeus-botnets-sting-operation

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft apologizes over 'Smoked by Windows Phone' controversy

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/26/2903250/microsoft-smoked-by-windows-phone-apology-sasha-katta

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 51 comments

WebSockets, Erlang and shattered glass

http://blog.ducksboard.com/2012/03/websockets-erlang-and-shattered-glass/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments
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