top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-01

The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

http://unretrofied.com/blog/2013/3/1/the-coolest-experience-i-had-as-an-apple-store-employee

13 years ago

490 upvotes – 158 comments

Heroku Fucking Console

https://github.com/tpope/heroku-fucking-console

13 years ago

★ 558 Ruby WTFPL
472 upvotes – 281 comments

Establishing secure connection

https://wellsoffice.wellsfargo.com/ceoportal/signon/loader.jsp

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 149 comments

Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow

https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-are-slow

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text

http://www.tiledtext.com/

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 91 comments

How Search Works

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304169

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 360 comments

Stripe launches beta in the UK

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/01/payments-startups-stripe-launches-limited-beta-for-uk-payments-with-euros-on-the-way/

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 104 comments

Clojure 1.5

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/kzF5O0Yfdhc/discussion

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 46 comments

Phishing Has Gotten Very Good

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/phishing_has_go.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 81 comments

Hackathons are bad for you

http://chinpen.net/blog/2013/02/hackathons-are-bad-for-you/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 123 comments

Could the ancient Romans have built a digital computer?

http://www.hscott.net/could-the-ancient-romans-have-built-a-digital-computer/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 143 comments

Expected arrival times for Apple products

http://arrival.io

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 118 comments

New kernel.org

https://www.kernel.org/category/site-news.html

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 37 comments

Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced

https://grouptalent.com/blog/why-we-switched-from-stripe-to-balanced

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 68 comments

Uncopyright

http://zenhabits.net/uncopyright/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 124 comments

Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough

http://ivanjovanovic.com/2012/04/26/programming-languages-are-simply-not-powerful-enough/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 139 comments

Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

https://twitter.com/hukl/status/307469987826761729

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 71 comments

SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to Space Station

http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 52 comments

Short algorithm, long-range consequences

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/short-algorithm-long-range-consequences-0301.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

Primeval C: two very early compilers

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/01/new-java-vulnerability-is-being-exploited-in-the-wild-disable-the-plugin-or-change-your-security-settings/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

Vim users: stop using hjkl

http://vimcasts.org/blog/2013/02/habit-breaking-habit-making/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 108 comments

Mars Rover Curiosity Has First Big Malfunction

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130301-mars-rover-curiosity-malfunction-science-space-nasa-jpl/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Canadian government introduces ACTA compliance bill

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6796/125/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

What to do when your non-technical boss is just plain wrong

http://www.articulateventures.com/cultural-communications-2/what-to-do-when-your-non-technical-boss-is-just-plain-wrong/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth

http://www.nature.com/news/ephemeral-third-ring-of-radiation-makes-appearance-around-earth-1.12529

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

HTTP+JSON Services in Modern Java

http://nerds.airbnb.com/httpjson-services-in-modern-java

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

BLZ: A data format leveraging the hierarchical memory model

http://continuum.io/blog/blz-format

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

How does the Internet work?

http://hwi.uni.be/hwi_uk.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/01/square-slapped-with-cease-and-desist-by-illinois-state-department-of-financial-regulation/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Khan Academy Launches First State-Wide Pilot In Idaho

http://www.informationweek.com/education/online-learning/khan-academy-launches-first-state-wide-p/240149801

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Ubuntu Off to a Promising Start on Smartphones

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511756/ubuntu-off-to-a-promising-start-on-smartphones/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple Versus Wall Street

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/02/tim-cook-and-apple-versus-wall-street-dont-pity-the-hedgies.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Leaving your job to go create something awesome

http://blog.darwinapps.com/post/44264524021/10-observations-leaving-your-job-to-go-create

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

CloudFlare vs Incapsula vs ModSecurity - Comparative penetration testing [pdf]

http://zeroscience.mk/files/wafreport2013.pdf

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

The Setup: Mike Fogus

http://mike.fogus.usesthis.com/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments

It's easy to blame minorities

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3455-its-easy-to-blame-minorities

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Accelerate or Die Hard

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vineup/accelerate-or-die-hard-a-book-more-intense-than-br

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments
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