top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-29

DuckDuckGo is blowing up

http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

14 years ago

1221 upvotes – 203 comments

A Woman’s Story

http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story

14 years ago

716 upvotes – 194 comments

The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men

http://techcitement.com/culture/the-best-birth-control-in-the-world-is-for-men/

14 years ago

629 upvotes – 196 comments

From MIT, a cure for all viruses?

http://www.process.org/discept/2011/11/17/draco-death-to-the-virus/

14 years ago

426 upvotes – 107 comments

Batman's Real Story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/who-is-the-route-29-batman-this-guy/2012/03/28/gIQA8nPjgS_blog.html

14 years ago

400 upvotes – 56 comments

Paper

http://www.fiftythree.com/paper

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 122 comments

Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 67 comments

GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it.

http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 47 comments

Canada ditches the penny

http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/money/penny+to+disappear+from+coinage+system+minting+to+end+by+fall+budget/6442610744/story.html

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 110 comments

My First Passive Income Project, One Year Later

http://www.sparklewise.com/my-first-passive-income-project-one-year-later/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 51 comments

A Better Strategy for Hangman

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/april12012/index.html

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 62 comments

Matz wins the 2011 Free Software Award

https://www.fsf.org/news/2011-free-software-awards-announced

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 33 comments

Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas

http://ardenthoughts.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 129 comments

200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/the-1000-genomes-project.html

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 55 comments

Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity

http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 54 comments

IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/032812-ietf-makeover-257762.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 31 comments

Why You Don't Need A Programmer

http://thinkopen.ly/post/20095389300/why-you-dont-need-a-programmer

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 97 comments

Learn to Pick Locks for Fun and an Increased Understanding of Security

http://lifehacker.com/5672326/learn-to-pick-locks-for-fun-and-an-increased-understanding-of-security

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Ze Frank's Kickstarter post-mortem

http://zefrank.tumblr.com/post/20122841731/kickstarter-post-mortem

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 13 comments

Visualizing Code to Fail Faster

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/visualizing-code-to-fail-faster.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 37 comments

LG begins mass production of first flexible e-ink displays

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/124229-lg-begins-mass-production-of-flexible-plastic-e-ink-displays

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 45 comments

Star Trek's tricorder comes to life

http://www.tricorderproject.org

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

Marketing 101 for developers

http://www.myasmine.com/marketing-101-for-developers

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 8 comments

Use Vim with Google Docs

http://blog.milford.io/2010/06/sweet-use-vim-with-google-docs/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

I'm sick to death of Android

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/im-sick-to-death-of-android/20242

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 141 comments

Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Svbtle for Wordpress

http://gravityonmars.com/2012/03/28/svbtle-based-on-wordpress/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO out

http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/29/rim-reports-q4-miss-balsillie-resigns-as-director-cto-out/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 53 comments

FamilyLeaf's (YC W12) Y Combinator Application

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/familyleaf-y-combinator-ap/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 41 comments

For-Profit University Sets $199-a-Month Tuition for Online Courses

http://chronicle.com/article/No-Financial-Aid-No-Problem/131329/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303404704577312043639469540-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwOTEyNDkyWj.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Open Source emulator in Javascript that runs Linux

http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Lessons Learned Building Open Source Software

http://mitchellhashimoto.com/post/20106073460/lessons-learned-building-open-source

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments
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