top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-01

Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.

http://www.mapstd.com/

14 years ago

394 upvotes – 40 comments

OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/01/omgpop-ceo-tweets-that-only-employee-not-to-transition-to-zynga-was-the-weakest-one/

14 years ago

366 upvotes – 181 comments

Paperfold CSS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/paperfold-css

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 44 comments

Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/01/bootstrapped-startup-saves-over-100k-by-dropping-ie/

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 113 comments

MMO Asteroids

http://seb.ly/demos/MMOsteroids.html

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 81 comments

All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN)

http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2012.html

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 57 comments

MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it

http://www.fastcompany.com/1733627/mit-scientist-captures-his-sons-first-90000-hours-on-video

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783657

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 223 comments

How to Train Your Brain to Remember Everything

http://lifehacker.com/5897708/how-to-train-your-brain-and-boost-your-memory-like-a-usa-memory-champion

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 58 comments

Responsive Design Patterns

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1514

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 9 comments

Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic

http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/rnpiw/mindboggling_xkcd_april_fools_comic/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 27 comments

Why nations fail

http://www.economist.com/node/21549911

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 114 comments

Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Computer science for the self taught programmer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784294

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system

https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/ECMAchine

14 years ago

★ 203 JavaScript
156 upvotes – 19 comments

Codestre.am: streaming your code to the masses

http://codestre.am/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Please be more thoughtful when downvoting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782124

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 76 comments

Julia, I Love You

http://www.r-bloggers.com/julia-i-love-you/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

UK government to monitor email and web use under new laws

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Really Advanced Search

http://www.google.com/js/reallyadvanced.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

It's time to level up headphone tech

http://chrismaury.com/post/20294864914/its-time-to-level-up-headphone-tech

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 45 comments

Encrypt Everything

http://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Main_Page

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

Chrome Multitask Mode

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

Walken on Rails

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/04/01/walken-on-rails/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What did you build in March?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784634

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783658

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 92 comments

Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup

http://fredandrandall.com/blog/2012/04/01/why-im-working-for-the-man-and-not-doing-a-startup/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 81 comments

Police Are Using Phone Tracking As A Routine Tool

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=print

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

Android fragmentation is a feature, not the big problem everyone says it is

http://vbsteven.com/archives/595

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Educator suspended when she refused to show her Facebook page

http://www.dailydot.com/news/teacher-aide-suspended-facebook-refused-access/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

R/C SR-71

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=SDbQ5xvsrIU

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Racing

http://www.google.com/racing/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/hands-on-gnome-34-arrives-introducing-significant-design-changes.ars

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

Teacher’s aide fired for refusing to hand over Facebook password

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/teachers-aide-fired-for-refusing-to-hand-over-facebook-password/11246

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple gives in, two year warranty for Europe

https://plus.google.com/118292867302583509179/posts/fSep9V4n7aP

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

https://github.com/cies/resume

14 years ago

★ 399 TeX
58 upvotes – 74 comments
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