top 50% 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

Don't be mean, it's stupid

https://news.layervault.com/stories/2052-dont-be-mean-its-stupid

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 103 comments

'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21693140#TWEET647219

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Growth and Government

http://samaltman.posthaven.com/growth-and-government

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 122 comments

All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/all-chrome-os-hack-attempts-fail-at-pwnium-3-2013038/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Introducing Braintree.js

https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/braintree-js?&partner_source=jsannouncementemail&utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jsannouncement

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Russian scientists report new DNA under subglacial Lake Vostok

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57573314/russian-scientists-report-new-dna-under-subglacial-lake-vostok/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Clojure's Default Reader is Unsafe

http://www.learningclojure.com/2013/02/clojures-reader-is-unsafe.html#post-body-2898830171141471587

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

http://trychec.com

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 66 comments

DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaper…

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/03/dynamodb-one-year-later.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Pandora CEO stepping down

http://investor.pandora.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=227956&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1793860&highlight=

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Machine Learning in Practice – Newsletter

http://daoudclarke.github.com/machine-learning-practice.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

My granny is a programmer

http://blog.progopedia.com/2012/jun/06/my-granny-programmer/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon

http://shnatsel.blogspot.ru/2013/03/why-your-desktop-wont-be-running.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

RubyMotion Success Story: Jukely

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/44804097099/rubymotion-success-story-jukely

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

How to speed up your design process

http://blog.jogofwar.com/3-ways-to-speed-up-your-design-process

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Decompiling C# (async/await)

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/danielgrunwald/archive/2012/04/16/decompiling-async-await.aspx

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

SSL + CNAME + static files hosting on GAE: almost free

http://blog.superfeedr.com/asset-hosting-ssl-domain/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Start testing your app with Casper.js

http://blog.codeship.io/2013/03/07/Smoke-Testing-with-Casperjs.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Fixing Database Connections in Django

http://craigkerstiens.com/2013/03/07/Fixing-django-db-connections/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

Antigen is to zsh, what Vundle is to vim

https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen

13 years ago

★ 8.3k Shell MIT
51 upvotes – 17 comments

IOS 6.1.2 is the Most Popular Version of iOS Less than One Week Following Launch

http://chitika.com/ios-version-distribution-update

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 46 comments

Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/father-humankind-340-000-years-old-210033011.html

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 42 comments

Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam

http://startupjuncture.com/2013/03/08/four-reasons-to-move-your-startup-to-amsterdam-and-2-challenges/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 73 comments

Bitcoin: Soft block size limit reached

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149668.0

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments

Rethinking Backbone.js View Rendering

http://elving.me/post/44859632208/rethinking-backbone-js-view-rendering

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 30 comments

Ruby Demystified: and vs. &&

http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/ruby-demystified-and-vs

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 69 comments

CodeMirror's creator's Tern.js reaches its funding goal

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tern-intelligent-javascript-editing?goal-reached

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments
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