top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-27

There's no speed limit (2009)

http://sivers.org/kimo

14 years ago

699 upvotes – 194 comments

Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

http://browserquest.mozilla.org/

14 years ago

468 upvotes – 106 comments

A Pinterest spammer tells all

http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-steve-amazon-spammer-tells-all/

14 years ago

348 upvotes – 115 comments

Turning down Zynga: Why I opted out of the $210M Omgpop buy

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga_Why_I_opted_out_of_the_210M_Omgpop_buy.php

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 113 comments

Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you

http://woodcutmaps.com

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 81 comments

How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls

http://gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull-request/

14 years ago

306 upvotes – 20 comments

The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2012/03/mac-app-store-needs-paid-upgrades.html

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 122 comments

Red Hat becomes the first open source company to amass a billion dollars

http://blog.zenoss.com/2012/03/why-billion-dollar-red-hat-and-openstack-need-to-dance/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 48 comments

Coding Horror: The End of Pagination

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/the-end-of-pagination.html

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 118 comments

10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the £10 Note

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/10-000-people-sign-petition-to-honor-alan-turing-by-putting-him-on-the-10-note/254988/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 36 comments

One Drug to Shrink All Tumors

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/one-drug-to-shrink-all-tumors.html

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 51 comments

ZeroRPC

https://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python

14 years ago

★ 3.2k Python
182 upvotes – 32 comments

No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming.html

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 58 comments

The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 39 comments

The Psychology of Tackling Hard Problems

http://davidvaldman.com/post/20027940591/psychofhardproblems

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 51 comments

Attention to Detail

http://martinsnyder.net/?p=35

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 30 comments

IOS design: a case study

http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/ios-design-a-case-study

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 21 comments

Bayes nets by example with Python and Khan Academy data

http://derandomized.com/post/20009997725/bayes-net-example-with-python-and-khanacademy

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 9 comments

Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/mexican-cartels-infosec/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 59 comments

Subsecond Offset Visualizations: Unusual patterns from cloud computing

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/03/26/subsecond-offset-heat-maps/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

BrowserQuest– a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Basho Unveils New Cloud Storage Software: Riak CS

http://basho.com/products/riakcs/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Bill Gates: We need crazy energy entrepreneurs

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/bill-gates-we-need-crazy-energy-entrepreneurs/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

86 years old lens hacked onto 5DMKII

http://todaystomorrow.tumblr.com/post/19109939479/the-5dmkii-view-camera

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Drive: Finally coming this April

http://gigaom.com/cloud/google-drive-finally-coming-this-april/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day

http://play-fame.com/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Even Non-Techies Aim to Learn the Internet’s Language

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/technology/for-an-edge-on-the-internet-computer-code-gains-a-following.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/03/24/apple-and-the-risks-of-trading-29000-times-per-second/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

The Histogram as the Image

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_the_histogram_as_the_imag.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

YC Application Resources

https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Rookies in the Bike Shed

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/44-rookies-in-the-bike-shed

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Kevin Korb's Jokes: Care and Feeding of Your Hacker

http://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?41

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong

http://splashcon.org/2011/program/dls/245-invited-talk-2

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111395306401981598462/posts

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Memepool is back, after 4yr hiatus

http://memepool.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Foamicate: A new system for authenticating users without using passwords.

http://foamicate.com

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 55 comments

Himera: ClojureScript Compiler Web Service

http://himera.herokuapp.com/index.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Draw Something Is A Hit

http://www.bonobolabs.com/the-7-sneaky-reasons-why-draw-something-is-a-hit/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

How I failed and failed some more, but in the end persevered.

http://demeulenaer.com/?p=99

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

YC Demo Day Session 2: Midnox, 42Floors, Sonalight, Your Mechanic

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/yc-demo-day-session-2-midnox-42floors-sonalight-your-mechanic/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

YC Demo Day Session 1

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/yc-demo-day-session-1/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Principle of Least Coding

http://ramblingsoullt.blogspot.com/2012/03/principle-of-least-coding.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments There is a better way

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/03/the-magic-of-editable-pdfs/index.htm

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 69 comments

YC Demo Day Session 4: Shoptiques, Pair, Daily Muse, Per Vices, iCracked

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-session-4/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 24 comments

DotCloud Adds Support For WebSockets, Vertical Scaling And More

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/open-paas-dotcloud-adds-support-for-websockets-vertical-scaling-and-more/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

SecureUDID Is An Open Source Solution To The Apple UDID Problem

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/secureudid-is-an-open-source-solution-to-the-apple-udid-problem/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

YC Demo Day Session 3: Crowdtilt, Flypad, Carsabi, Anyperk, TiKL, Dealupa

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-session-3/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments
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