top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-19

Diamonds Are Bullshit

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit

13 years ago

1088 upvotes – 734 comments

Goodbye, Malcolm

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/mar/19/goodbye-malcolm/

13 years ago

671 upvotes – 39 comments

Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-their-professional-counterparts/

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 190 comments

Why I left Google (2012)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx

13 years ago

392 upvotes – 112 comments

An apology to open source

http://www.chartjs.org/?apo

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 252 comments

Chart.js is back online

http://www.chartjs.org?back

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 119 comments

Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (2011)

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2011/03/uncovering-advertising-fraud-scheme.html#

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 47 comments

Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/19/court_sides_with_student_in_case_over_textbooks/singleton/

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 209 comments

Free works

http://www.marco.org/2013/03/19/free-works

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 106 comments

Today's Email Incident

https://github.com/blog/1440-today-s-email-incident

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 172 comments

Bitcoin rises

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013391325331795.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 257 comments

It's official: CISPA is back

http://www.cispaisback.org/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 48 comments

Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/03/19/introducing-sourcetree-git-client-microsoft-windows/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 112 comments

MongoDB 2.4 Released: Text Search, Security, Hash-based Sharding

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/45754637343/mongodb-2-4-released

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 89 comments

The DOM isn't slow

http://blog.korynunn.com/javascript/the-dom-isnt-slow-you-are/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 125 comments

JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated

https://github.com/levskaya/jslinux-deobfuscated

13 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
160 upvotes – 31 comments

Wefunder (YC W13): Invest in Startups

https://wefunder.com/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 74 comments

Google Drive Realtime API

https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

The brutal truth about marketing your software product

http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/19/the-brutal-truth-about-marketing-your-software-product/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 36 comments

Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over $6,000,000 per Month

http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 87 comments

Announcing Sift Science: fight fraud with large-scale machine learning

http://blog.siftscience.com/announcing-sift-science-fight-fraud-with-large-scale-machine-learning/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for-you-to-earn-or-to-learn/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal

http://fcw.com/articles/2013/03/18/amazon-cia-cloud.aspx

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 69 comments

The Toronto Raptors, SportVU cameras, and the NBA's analytical revolution

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9068903/the-toronto-raptors-sportvu-cameras-nba-analytical-revolution

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics

http://supplementsos.com/blog/why-do-we-eat-grains/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

How A Y Combinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly

http://onforb.es/YlXkfL

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

What should you open source in your company

http://alpblog.heroku.com/what-should-you-open-source-in-your-company/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

http://jlongster.com/Making-Sprite-based-Games-with-Canvas

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks

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

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Peter Thiel Talks About the Day Mark Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion

http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg-luck-day-facebook-turned-down-billion-dollars.html#hn

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science (YC S11), a Fraud-Fighting System For Websites

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/19/ex-googlers-launch-sift-science-a-fraud-fighting-system-for-websites-backed-by-5-5m-in-funding-from-union-square-first-round-yc-others/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

SQLite 3.7.16 Released

http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_16.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Lenovo unveils new ThinkPad design

http://blog.lenovo.com/products/thinkpad-t431s-laptop-new-design

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 106 comments

Freenode's Parent Organization Dissolved

http://blog.freenode.net/2013/03/bye-bye-pdpc/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

The future beyond bookmarking - Welcome to new Kippt

http://blog.kippt.com/2013/03/19/future-beyond-bookmarking-new-kippt/#

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: StatusPage.io - Hosted, white label status pages

https://www.statuspage.io

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Announcing 10x Management

http://www.10xmanagement.com/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 78 comments

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012

http://typographica.org/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2012/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences

http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 121 comments

Letter from MIT President on Releasing Aaron Swartz Documents

http://pastebin.com/DH0Nqisw

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/cisco-switches-to-weaker-hashing-scheme-passwords-cracked-wide-open/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Fivetran (YC W13) launches spreadsheet for data analysis

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/19/yc-backed-fivetran-launches-a-smart-online-spreadsheet-for-data-analysis/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Moto - Easy mocking of Boto for your Python AWS tests

https://github.com/spulec/moto

13 years ago

★ 8.4k Python Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 4 comments

Posterous Migration Guide: All known importers compared

http://blog.posthaven.com/the-posterous-migration-guide

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/03/build-collaborative-apps-with-google.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonald's Restaurant Recipes

http://www.epicconstructions.com/mirror/mcd/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 67 comments
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