top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-16

What do grad students in math do all day?

https://gist.github.com/stoutbeard/4158578

13 years ago

361 upvotes – 72 comments

More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/15/priorities-keeping-the-site-up-and-adding-new-features/

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 178 comments

Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386966

13 years ago

319 upvotes – 158 comments

The Internet is a surveillance state

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?eref=edition

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 174 comments

Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/google-kills-rss/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 145 comments

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 88 comments

The danger of the trailing dot in the domain name

http://saynt2day.blogspot.ru/2013/03/danger-of-trailing-dot-in-domain-name.html

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 68 comments

The madness of the bailout in Cyprus

http://www.maximise.dk/the-madness-of-the-bailout-in-cyprus/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 236 comments

Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valley’s ‘War For Talent’

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/16/bring-out-the-beast/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 115 comments

Leaving Twitter

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/leaving-twitter.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 22 comments

Los Angeles in 2013 as Predicted in 1988

http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: My 5-year basement Plan 9 project

http://9gridchan.org

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 55 comments

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

GCC 4.8 release

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Luvit – Asynchronous I/O for Lua

http://luvit.io/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

"Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Uber Drivers Protest Outside the Company’s San Francisco Headquarters

http://allthingsd.com/20130315/uber-drivers-protest-outside-the-companys-san-francisco-headquarters/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 163 comments

The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux computer shop closing

https://plus.google.com/100221912051999668442/posts/4aceUXuWYaX

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

How to Watch Netflix in Ubuntu Linux

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/linux/how-to-netflix-ubuntu-linux/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Man steals $33 million from Australian casino in 'Ocean's Eleven'-esque heist

http://news.msn.com/world/man-steals-dollar33-million-from-australian-casino-in-oceans-eleven-esque-heist

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: How much of your time is spent on classical algorithmic problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385523

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/mailbox-cost-dropbox-around-100-million/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 56 comments

Your First iOS App

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/your-first-ios-app/x/2700170

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/16/why-google-killed-off-google-reader-it-was-self-defense/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 55 comments

A Python library to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and Live accounts

https://github.com/mengu/contact_importer

13 years ago

★ 173 Python
61 upvotes – 3 comments

Oscar-awarded Movie Fonts 2013

http://www.linotype.com/en/6982/oscarawardedmoviefonts2013.html?PHPSESSID=951d21e93bf0d64e7af399a43725e0b2

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook Cuts Off MessageMe’s Access To Its Social Graph

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/facebook-messageme/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain

http://stoneship.org/essays/tdd-bypasses-your-brain/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 65 comments

SimCity Update: Straight Answers from Lucy

http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-lucy

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 64 comments

Europe Announces Bailout For Cyprus — Bank Depositors Get Instant 10% Tax

http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-deal-2013-3

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 98 comments
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