top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-30

I am very real

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html

14 years ago

943 upvotes – 150 comments

Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt(x*x%2By*y)%2B3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B5

14 years ago

692 upvotes – 135 comments

SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/30/sopa-is-all-fun-and-games-until-nbc-rips-off-apples-artwork/

14 years ago

417 upvotes – 94 comments

10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server

http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with-wordpress-using-a-15-server

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 113 comments

Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/30/infinite_copyright_is_killing_culture.html

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 95 comments

How we came back after being shut down in four days

http://blog.leaky.com/how-we-came-back-after-being-shut-down-in-fou

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 86 comments

Bruce Schneier debates former TSA boss

https://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/822

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 53 comments

Java 9 with GPU processing, Java 10 will be all-OOP without primitives

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2012/120315-oracle-s-java-roadmap.html

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 134 comments

#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/1-csrf-is-vulnerability-in-all-browsers.html

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 238 comments

Introducing Grunt

http://weblog.bocoup.com/introducing-grunt/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 28 comments

Tell HN: Google Plus doesn't like my name

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775055

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation since 2006

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

The Girls Around Me App Takes Creepy to a New Level

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/girls-around-me-ios-app-takes-creepy-to-a-new-level/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 93 comments

Why I Chose New York

http://michael-g-miller.tumblr.com/post/20168723440/why-i-chose-new-york

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 141 comments

Rust 0.2 released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-March/001511.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder

http://weddinglovely.com/blog/how-to-survive-as-a-solo-designer-founder/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Crowd-Sourced Flight Search

http://flightfox.com

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

On Building Flipboard for iPhone

http://craigmod.com/journal/digital_physical

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 14 comments

April Fools Day jQuery plugin

http://fooljs.com/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

RESTful thinking considered harmful

http://www.shopify.com/technology/5898287-restful-thinking-considered-harmful

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

Don’t break the Internet with your Javascript

http://www.olark.com/spw/2012/03/dont-break-the-internet-with-your-javascript/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Buildings 30ft High

http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/30/new-video-of-sand-flea-robot-leaping-onto-tall-buildings-30ft-high/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

30 billion dollar hack

http://www.cringely.com/2012/03/the-30-billion-hack

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

Down To Fax is Chatroulette for fax machines

https://www.downtofax.com/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Y Combinator: Disneyland for Investors?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57406737-276/y-combinator-disneyland-for-investors/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Don't login to reference.me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775035

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Finally a unified Python solution for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 (oh and Ofly) consumers

https://github.com/litl/rauth

14 years ago

★ 1.6k Python MIT
81 upvotes – 11 comments

Bacteria converts carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124383-bacteria-converts-carbon-dioxide-into-liquid-fuel

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Fabric Engine: JavaScript as fast as C++

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fabric-Engine-brings-JavaScript-to-C-level-1497983.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot, Aug 2000)

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/00/08/09/1858219/what-did-objective-c-do-wrong

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 87 comments

Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2012/03/30/steve-blank-hands-a-new-owners-manual-to-startup-founders/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

Groupon Restates Results, Reveals Weak Controls

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577313983768173826.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Drive leaks suggest 5GB free storage, in-app document editing

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/30/google-drive-leaks/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Kill the Blockbuster

http://blog.kylemeyer.com/post/20139494197/kill-the-blockbuster

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

MasterCard, Visa Warn of Processor Breach

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/mastercard-visa-warn-of-processor-breach/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

Research In Motion is dead

http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/30/research-in-motion-is-dead/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 72 comments

The time displayed on most Android phones is wrong

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-time-displayed-on-most-android-phones-is-wrong/19387

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

New imagery shows brain neurons are arranged in 2D sheets

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brain-wiring-no-brainer-scans-reveal.html?

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

The Physics of Angry Birds Space

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/the-gravitational-force-in-angry-birds-space/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Adobe's 9% Flash tax

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/the-9-adobe-flash-tax

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments
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