top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-07

Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTVRFA?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links

13 years ago

708 upvotes – 434 comments

Unix tricks

http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/unix/tricks.txt

13 years ago

623 upvotes – 224 comments

Linode Nextgen: The Network

http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/07/linode-nextgen-the-network/

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 183 comments

Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)

http://www.sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 206 comments

Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money

http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/salary-negotatiations-whats-possible-when-there-is-no-more-mone/

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 82 comments

Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling

http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 30 comments

Facebook's New Feed

https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 191 comments

Why are payment forms so complicated?

http://blog.siftscience.com/why-are-payment-forms-so-complicated-2/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 166 comments

Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients

https://gist.github.com/re4k/3878505

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 98 comments

Google Docs makes it easy to do market research

https://plus.google.com/115195708001192408562/posts/BiGE3gwjDkB

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 41 comments

Tern – Intelligent JavaScript editing

http://ternjs.net/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)

http://ivolo.me/soviet-college-admission/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 124 comments

Dropbox Sync API

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

An Iron Man Like 3D Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js

http://badassjs.com/post/44786596458/an-iron-man-like-3d-hologram-controlled-by-leap-motion

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine

http://blog.nelhage.com/2013/03/tracking-an-eventmachine-leak/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15232

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 28 comments

Screenhero Shares Your Screen with Others, Gives Each Person Their Own Mouse

http://lifehacker.com/5988888/screenhero-shares-your-screen-with-others-gives-each-person-their-own-mouse

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Software Development Is Bad For Your Health

http://www.alexmedearis.com/software-development-is-bad-for-your-health-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 100 comments

Things Java Programmers can learn from Clojure

http://www.lispcast.com/java-learn-from-clojure?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0L266uiy59kJ:www.ea.com/1/service-updates+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 81 comments

Pwn2Own owned all major browsers

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments

The Country That Stopped Reading

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/the-country-that-stopped-reading.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 67 comments

Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130307006192/en/Google-MPEG-LA-Announce-Agreement-Covering-VP8

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development

https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/gotchas-irritants-and-warts-in-go-web-development

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks

http://www.alasdairmonk.com/journal/from-idea-to-appstore-in-2-weeks/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

How I migrated from Heroku to Digital Ocean with Chef and Capistrano

http://matteodepalo.github.com/blog/2013/03/07/how-i-migrated-from-heroku-to-digital-ocean-with-chef-and-capistrano/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

'Too Big to Jail' Admission Changes Debate

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/how-holder-s-surprising-too-big-to-jail-admission-changes-debate-1057303-1.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Introducing Passion Projects

https://github.com/blog/1433-introducing-passion-projects

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 95 comments

Redis with an SSD swap – not what you want

http://antirez.com/news/52

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons)

http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/41-php-is-the-right-tool-for-the-job-for-all-the-wrong-reasons.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 143 comments

Authorea: Write research papers inside your browser

https://www.authorea.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

Bill Introduced to Re-Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking

http://allthingsd.com/20130307/bill-introduced-to-re-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Minecraft Environmental Lighting Experiment

http://blog.taptonics.com/post/44803397320/minecraft-environmental-lighting-experiment

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Linux cheat sheet

https://github.com/WilliamHackmore/linuxgems/blob/master/cheat_sheet.org.sh

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

The enigma of the Ford paradox

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/the-enigma-of-the-ford-paradox/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Elements of Statistical Learning

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer

http://firstround.com/article/The-inside-story-of-how-382-recruiters-pursued-an-imaginary-engineer

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Tarski's high school algebra problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_high_school_algebra_problem

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Why We Choose Python

http://www.sixfeetup.com/blog/why-we-choose-python

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)

http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/blog/creating-a-simple-blog-system-with-a-500-line-bash-script.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

New Sanctions Imposed on North Korea as it Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/world/asia/north-korea-warns-of-pre-emptive-nuclear-attack.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: the remote-only job board called HireThere (a weekend project)

http://hirethere.com

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

AWS Case Study: Parse (YC S11)

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/parse/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Intro to the Python Framework Pyramid

http://www.sixfeetup.com/blog/intro-to-the-python-framework-pyramid-and-a-sample-app

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Doom on the Commodore VIC-20

https://github.com/Kweepa/vicdoom

13 years ago

★ 84 Assembly
64 upvotes – 17 comments

Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

https://joinjspot.com/blog/meteor-in-the-wild

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Universal laws behind growth patterns, from Tetris to coffee stains

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2013/03/01/the-universal-laws-behind-growth-patterns-or-what-tetris-can-teach-us-about-coffee-stains/#more-2837

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

A parable about problem solving in software development

http://www.drmaciver.com/2013/03/what-the-fuck-are-we-doing/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Open Source And Responsibility

http://felixge.de/2013/03/07/open-source-and-responsibility.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments
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