top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-31

OSX For Hackers

https://gist.github.com/2260182

14 years ago

469 upvotes – 117 comments

Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=queens,+ny&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.188298,71.630859&t=8&hnear=Queens,+New+York&z=11

14 years ago

455 upvotes – 105 comments

Confessions of a car salesman

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-salesman.phtml

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 60 comments

Charlie Stross on Girls Around Me

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/not-an-april-fool-1.html

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 104 comments

5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))*cos(30*((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2)))

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29*cos%2830*%28%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1.5%2C+z+is+from+1+to+6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 13 comments

Spooning by bitbucket

https://bitbucket.org/spooning/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 28 comments

Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

http://dotsies.org/stories/the-lamplighter.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 128 comments

Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns.

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/be-yourself-abnormal-people-create-abnormal-returns

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 124 comments

Is Agile Stifling Introverts?

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/03/agile_stifiling_introverts

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

Y Combinator here I come

http://new.novelog.com/?p=26

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

Douglas Crockford on Fat Arrow Functions in JavaScript

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-is-the-meaning-of-this

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

Dead Programmers Aren't Much Fun

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/03/dead-programmer.php

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

The truth about Scala

http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/2012/03/01/truth-about-scala/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/03/adobe-releases-last-linux-version-of.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

The Missing 20th Century: How copyright protection makes books vanish

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-missing-20th-century-how-copyright-protection-makes-books-vanish/255282/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Groupon is poised for collapse

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/31/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales

http://torrentfreak.com/french-three-strikes-law-slashes-piracy-but-fails-to-boost-sales-120330/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Disband the TSA now

http://nat.org/blog/2012/03/tsa-debate/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/nyregion/in-manhattan-pizza-war-price-of-slice-keeps-dropping.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 106 comments

Rails 3.2.3 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/30/ann-rails-3-2-3-has-been-released/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

The shocking toll of hardware and software fragmentation on Android development

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/03/30/the-shocking-toll-of-hardware-and-software-fragmentation-on-android-development

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Today is World Backup Day

http://www.worldbackupday.com

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Here Are The Women of Y Combinator And They Are Awesome

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/ladies-of-y-combinator/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Baby Boomers: We had it all, and still do.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/we-had-it-all-and-still-do-its-worth-the-guilt/article2387987/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: This is my first open-source project. Feedback?

https://github.com/michaelochurch/ScalaGraph

14 years ago

★ 27 Scala MIT
69 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Can't Startups Find Designers?

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/03/31/why-cant-startups-find-designers/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 65 comments

Perpetual Ocean by NASA [video]

http://youtu.be/WEe1bVjORN4

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Automatically calibrating a computer projector image

http://dalpix.com/blog/automatically-calibrating-computer-projector-image

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/31/breakfast-of-champions-meet-the-man-known-as-fakegrimlock/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest

http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/3/28/How-I-cheated-Mozillas-new-HTML5-Game

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB)

http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/20172172065/lessons-learned-from-our-recent-outages

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Is sugar toxic?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57407128/is-sugar-toxic/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 74 comments

Rafa Benetiz: A title winning soccer manager who codes

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/1041950/richard-jolly:-the-forward-thinking-rafa-benitez?cc=5901

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments
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