top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-13

Google Reader shutting down

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

13 years ago

1964 upvotes – 695 comments

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-no-longer-requires-food

13 years ago

656 upvotes – 502 comments

We'll Be Circling Back

http://paulgraham.com/circling.html

13 years ago

422 upvotes – 159 comments

Update from the CEO

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/update-from-ceo.html

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 206 comments

Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 139 comments

SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/13/simcitys-sims-dont-seem-that-smart-after-all/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 159 comments

How I Hacked Any Facebook Account Again

http://www.nirgoldshlager.com/2013/03/how-i-hacked-any-facebook-accountagain.html?

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 38 comments

Wealth, risk, and stuff

http://vruba.tumblr.com/post/45256059128/wealth-risk-and-stuff

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 101 comments

Where and When Did the Symbols "+" and "–" Originate?

https://blogs.stsci.edu/livio/2013/03/12/where-and-when-did-the-symbols-%E2%80%9C%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9C%E2%80%93%E2%80%9D-originate/

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 88 comments

Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/34-civil-liberties-groups-speak-out-against-cispa-lead-hearings

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 111 comments

Code Reads

http://ashkenas.com/code-reads/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 83 comments

Yes `yes no`

http://blog.michaeltang.me/yes-yes-no/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 83 comments

The Redhat of Drupal

http://ma.tt/2013/03/the-redhat-of-drupal/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 58 comments

Don't learn how to code, learn how to make things

http://www.jakelevine.me/blog/2013/03/dont-learn-how-to-code-learn-how-to-make-things/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

Aaron Swartz to receive the James Madison Freedom of Information Award

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/13/late-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-to-receive-the-james-madison-freedom-of-information-award-on-friday/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2)

http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-development-part-2

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2229349

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: How did you find your early adopters?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366396

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

University of Reddit

http://www.ureddit.com/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

How Solo Founders Beat The Odds and Get Into Top Accelerators

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/03/12/how-solo-founders-beat-the-odds-and-get-into-top-accelerators/#!/lawdingo

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

This is What Happens When You Run Water Through a 24hz Sine Wave

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/this-is-what-happens-when-you-run-water-through-a-24hz-sine-wave/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Berkeley creates the first graphene earphones

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/150646-berkeley-creates-the-first-graphene-earphones-and-unsurprisingly-theyre-awesome

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/porn-site-breaks-down-searches-by-country-surprising-no-one/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

Skip lists: fast PyPy-compatible ordered map in 89 lines of Python

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/45227295342/fast-pypy-compatible-ordered-map-in-python

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Doctor 'used silicone fingers' to sign in for colleagues

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21756709

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367790

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 69 comments

United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' Patent System

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnvillasenor/2013/03/11/march-16-2013-america-transitions-to-a-first-inventor-to-file-patent-system/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

OpenSUSE Linux 12.3 has been released

http://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/13/opensuse-12-3-free-open-and-awesome/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Preview of Qt 5 for Android

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/03/13/preview-of-qt-5-for-android/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Powering Down Google Reader

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Firefox OS Simulator – previewing version 3.0

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/firefox-os-simulator-previewing-version-3-0/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

RAMCloud - All Your Storage in DRAM

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/display/ramcloud/RAMCloud

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Reinventing the Airline Industry

http://www.judegomila.com/2013/02/reinventing-airline-industry-open-post.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

http://jfdin.com/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 84 comments

The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/03/13/dragdis-from-lithuania-the-ultimate-bookmarking-tool-is-finally-here

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 68 comments

1600% faster app requests with Rails on Heroku

https://coderwall.com/p/5cafjw

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix

http://netflix.burtonthird.com

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments
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