top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-03-08

EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban

http://www.gamechup.com/ea-refuses-to-refund-user-for-simcity-threatens-account-ban/

13 years ago

397 upvotes – 202 comments

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/simcity-burning-a-warning-to-microsoft-sony-and-all-publishers-on-the-dangers-of-always-online-drm

13 years ago

389 upvotes – 198 comments

The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?hp

13 years ago

360 upvotes – 184 comments

Days since last known Java 0-day exploit

http://java-0day.com

13 years ago

291 upvotes – 81 comments

Flat UI DMCA Takedown

https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI

13 years ago

★ 15.1k JavaScript MIT
260 upvotes – 145 comments

Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 156 comments

How to "open" a microchip and what's inside?

http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-what-inside

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

http://yoursachet.com/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 35 comments

Flat UI, mirrored

https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 98 comments

Coding Cloud Heroku May Face Lawsuit Over Bait-and-Switch Claims

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/hieroku/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 96 comments

Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP Addresses

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-trolls-order-wordpress-to-hand-over-critics-ip-addresses-130308/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

http://runnable.com

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders

http://flashvhtml.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 71 comments

Heroku Class Action

http://herokuclassaction.com

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 68 comments

Daemon Showdown: Upstart vs. Runit vs. Systemd vs. Circus vs. God

http://tech.cueup.com/blog/2013/03/08/running-daemons/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 66 comments

VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vnc-viewer/iabmpiboiopbgfabjmgeedhcmjenhbla

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp, and Java [pdf]

http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/5771/5909832/PDF/Luger_0136070477_1.pdf

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

http://hypercritical.co/2013/03/08/the-case-for-a-true-mac-pro-successor

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 117 comments

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released

http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-03-07-1

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 71 comments
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