top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-15

Procrastination is Not Laziness

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/procrastination-is-not-laziness/

13 years ago

771 upvotes – 173 comments

Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js

http://usablica.github.com/intro.js/

13 years ago

716 upvotes – 154 comments

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/

13 years ago

646 upvotes – 172 comments

Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox

http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#to-grow-even-faster-mailbox-is-joining-dropbox

13 years ago

389 upvotes – 142 comments

Google is about to learn a tough lesson

http://blog.calbucci.com/2013/03/google-is-about-to-learn-tough-lesson.html

13 years ago

372 upvotes – 231 comments

Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls

http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 59 comments

Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-federated-instant-messaging-on-purpose

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 150 comments

What it’s like to die

http://sashmackinnon.com/what-its-like-to-die

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 132 comments

Programming Cheat Sheets

http://overapi.com/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 57 comments

Dropbox Acquires Mailbox

https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/03/welcome-mailbox/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 42 comments

More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23276

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 45 comments

Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

The patented IBM multi-pipe: the evolution of Unix pipes

http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/173

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

If you're busy, you're doing something wrong

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 48 comments

Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader

https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 127 comments

Sentiment Analysis in Python

http://andybromberg.com/sentiment-analysis-python/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 8 comments

JS Git: working git clones for offline development in the browser

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creationix/js-git

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

Achilles Heel of OAuth or Why Facebook Adds #_=_

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/redirecturi-is-achilles-heel-of-oauth.html?m=1

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

The RSS Apocalypse

http://macsparky.com/blog/2013/3/the-rss-apocalypse

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Chicken Scheme

http://www.call-cc.org/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips

http://www.colestreet.com/starting-your-first-business-in-france-here-are-the-steps-and-some-great-tips/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

Faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and Node.js

https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Why DRM is such a fucking stupid idea

http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2885549.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 86 comments

Formspring is shutting down

http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Taking the Leap

http://swombat.com/2013/3/15/taking-the-leap

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Backward-cpp – A stack trace pretty-printer for C++

https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp

13 years ago

★ 4.2k C++ MIT
90 upvotes – 28 comments

Backdoor in the TP-Link routers

http://sekurak.pl/tp-link-httptftp-backdoor/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

I've become what I wasn't supposed to be

https://medium.com/on-startups/b3cbf9a3a452

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Pixi.js is out

http://www.goodboydigital.com/pixi-js-is-out/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Try Git

http://try.github.com/levels/1/challenges/1

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Startup Australia

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130314130000-921366-startup-australia

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 91 comments

Why We Don't Use Heroku

https://grouptalent.com/blog/why-we-don-t-use-heroku

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

It's Not Just Apple vs Android

http://andycroll.com/2013/03/15/its-not-just-apple-vs-android/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

Moving and renaming files on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1436-moving-and-renaming-files-on-github

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

PAWK - A Python line processor (like AWK)

https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk

13 years ago

★ 526 Python MIT
63 upvotes – 24 comments

How and why the government is stalking you

http://www.applieddatalabs.com/content/how-and-why-government-stalking-you

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Getting into the tech scene when you have no skills

http://josephwalla.com/getting-into-the-tech-scene-when-you-have-no-skills

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Memex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Lawdingo, The Startup That Lets You Talk To Lawyers Instantly, Joins YC

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/lawdingo-y-combinator/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments
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