top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-05

Hacker News Parody Thread

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

13 years ago

589 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 347 comments

Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 287 comments

Vim Git Gutter

https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

13 years ago

★ 8.4k Vim Script MIT
371 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

http://www.coffitivity.com

13 years ago

337 upvotes – 205 comments

Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin

https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment-options/bitcoin.aspx

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 172 comments

Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/google-nsl-range/?cid=co6199824

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 101 comments

The Humble Bundle with Android 5

http://www.humblebundle.com/?android5

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 91 comments

Twenty dollars in an envelope

http://justinjackson.ca/jason-fried-high-school/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist

http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-freelance-journalist-2013/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 130 comments

Real pixel coding (2011)

http://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=1426

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

http://remojobo.com

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

The Start-Up Trap

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/05/TheStartUpTrap.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 139 comments

The Myth of Japanese Longevity

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-myth-of-japanese-longevity.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 65 comments

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf

http://news.yahoo.com/google-services-not-require-real-names-vint-cerf-120515311--sector.html

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/payments-infrastructure-suspending-traffic-zero-downtime-migrations

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

The ways of Wayland

http://lwn.net/Articles/536862/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

How I ended up with Mac

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 193 comments

Why Haskell Is Worth Learning

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/03/05/why-haskell/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 108 comments

The early 2013 retina MBP 15” have faulty firmware/hardware

http://aniggler.tumblr.com/post/44586267125/the-early-2013-retina-mbp-15-have-faulty

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails

https://litmus.com/blog/preventing-unsubscribes-in-forwarded-emails

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

R and pandas and what I've learned about each

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/R-and-pandas-and-what-ive-learned-about-each.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach

http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/03/lisp-hackers-vladimir-sedach.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zig6-hourztgSzm1g10zm2g25

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 112 comments

Monads explained by Eric Lippert

http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/21/monads-part-one/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

You aren't getting any better

http://robertheaton.com/2013/03/04/you-arent-getting-any-better/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 91 comments

Secretive Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/secretive-global-copyright-negotiations-continue-16th-round-tpp-talks

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

A Manifesto For Error Reporting

http://www.drmaciver.com/2013/03/a-manifesto-for-error-reporting/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta)

https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compression

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Last Wishes of a Dying "General"

http://www.jqpublic-blog.com/?p=133

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

The money of big data is in analytics

http://dendory.net/?b=5135940c

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Perl-based server-management tool

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/guide/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

Dennis Tito's mission to Mars

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/dennis-titos-mission-mars

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

From Show HN to Funding In Less Than 3 Months

http://blog.geteasypost.com/post/44639806088/showhntofunding

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Opera’s new Android beta is out, and it includes some pretty big changes

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/05/operas-new-android-beta-is-out-and-it-includes-some-pretty-big-changes/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

The Startup Toolkit series

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable

http://www.drmaciver.com/2009/03/exceptions-for-control-flow-considered-perfectly-acceptable-thanks-very-much/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 85 comments

Everything I Missed in "Vim After 11 Years"

http://statico.github.com/vim2.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Rawson.js - Camera RAW browser/editor lib

http://dev.tag.is/rawson.js/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Ruby-jokes/job_interview

https://github.com/ruby-jokes/job_interview

13 years ago

★ 431 Ruby GPL-3.0
49 upvotes – 11 comments

Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/dk1aiW4JjHd

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 63 comments

What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The Force That Really Matters (2012)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/11/20/what-killed-michael-porters-monitor-group-the-one-force-that-really-matters

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Hide your health insurance status and pay cash instead

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/06/hide-health-insurance-status-pay-cash.html

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 71 comments

Did Evernote remove all references to 2fa from forums after they got hacked?

https://www.google.com/search?q=evernote+2fa&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB503GB503&aq=f&oq=evernote+2fa&aqs=chrome.0.57j60l3j0l2.2228&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 2: Collections and Forms

http://gun.io/blog/Building-Backbone.js-apps-with-Backlift-part-2-Collections-and-Forms/

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Where TDD Fails

http://blog.precog.com/?p=431/

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 49 comments

Finish the Job

http://birchtree.me/main/finishing-the-job-because-nobody-cares-what-youre-going-to-do

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 23 comments

Benedictus XVI

http://www.vatican.va/bxvi/omaggio/index_en.html

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 33 comments
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