top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-20

The PyCon Incident

http://pastebin.com/JaNh0w5F

13 years ago

1125 upvotes – 986 comments

You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?

https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe?

13 years ago

808 upvotes – 144 comments

Users don't like social login

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/45842909320/users-dont-like-social-login

13 years ago

553 upvotes – 229 comments

Benefits matter, or why I won't work for your Y Combinator startup

http://mhalligan.com/benefits-matter-or-why-i-wont-work-for-your-y

13 years ago

550 upvotes – 353 comments

Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

http://playground.webflow.com?s=hn

13 years ago

503 upvotes – 132 comments

Announcing Backbone.js 1.0

http://ashkenas.com/backbonejs-1.0/

13 years ago

396 upvotes – 64 comments

"Getting started with Ember.Js is easy." - No it isn't

http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/getting-started-with-ember-js-is-easy-no-it-isn-t/559

13 years ago

391 upvotes – 245 comments

Voyager 1 has left the solar system

http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2013/2013-11.shtml

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 63 comments

Docker - the Linux container runtime

http://docker.io/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 204 comments

Superhero.js: articles and videos on building large JavaScript apps

http://superherojs.com/

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 44 comments

Box's 65-Year-Old Android Engineer Gives Your Startup Some Unsentimental Advice

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3007250/open-company/boxs-65-year-old-android-engineer-gives-your-startup-some-unsentimental-advice#

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 95 comments

Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 Internet map

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/19/carna_botnet_ipv4_internet_map/

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 63 comments

GoPro Uses DMCA to Take Down Article Comparing Its Camera with Rival

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/03/20/gopro-uses-dmca-to-take-down-article-comparing-its-camera-with-rival/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 80 comments

A gel that can stop severe bleeding instantly

http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11409/the-gel-that-stops-bleeding-instantly/

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 57 comments

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)

http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-rails-4-beta/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 44 comments

An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless

http://thefinancialbrand.com/28346/google-alerts-broken/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 93 comments

Why I left news

http://allysonbird.com/2013/03/19/why-i-left-news/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 40 comments

DigitalRev.com served with DMCA takedown notice by GoPro for review

http://www.digitalrev.com/article/gopro-hero-3-vs-sony/Njk3MDQ3MDg_A

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 57 comments

Formerly Top Secret NSA Cryptologs From 1974-1997

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/cryptologs.shtml

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 63 comments

F-1 Engine Recovery

http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/updates.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 63 comments

The dire state of WordPress

http://jshakespeare.com/the-dire-state-of-wordpress

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 156 comments

When TED Lost Control of Its Crowd

http://hbr.org/2013/04/when-ted-lost-control-of-its-crowd/ar/1

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Riak CS is Now Open Source

http://basho.com/riak-cs-is-now-open-source/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 11 comments

An Open Source Author's Lament

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2864#issuecomment-15159370

13 years ago

★ 16.5k CoffeeScript MIT
127 upvotes – 55 comments

Rails 3.2.13 - Performance regressions and major bugs

http://blog.bugsnag.com/2013/03/20/rails-3-2-13-performance-regressions-major-bugs/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/03/build-a-twilio-hard-phone-with-sip-from-twilio-raspberry-pi-asterisk-freepbx-and-the-obihai-obi100.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8401009&OS=8401009&RS=8401009

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

The New Firebase iOS SDK

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-20-new-firebase-ios-sdk.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

Introducing "Functional JavaScript"

http://blog.fogus.me/2013/03/20/fun-js/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

A Tale of Two Londons

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residents-one-hyde-park-london.print

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Digg banned from Google?

http://martinmacdonald.net/digg-banned-from-google/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 73 comments

How to crash IE9 with some simple CSS

http://tech.onefinestay.com/post/45746129401/dont-trust-your-bug-reports-aka-how-to-crash-ie9

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Keep

https://drive.google.com/keep/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 109 comments

Ian Hickson on content providers and the reason for DRM

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qtnxhuojytbjbr04ci3cowrmtehsy324

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Poor Man’s Agile: Scrum in 5 Simple Steps

http://www.scottporad.com/2013/03/19/poor-mans-agile-scrum-in-5-simple-steps/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 99 comments

Ember: Baby Steps

http://wekeroad.com/2013/03/20/ember-baby-steps

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Flat-UI repository is available again

https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI?onlineagain

13 years ago

★ 15.1k JavaScript MIT
87 upvotes – 36 comments

Closure

http://refer.ly

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Keep – Save what’s on your mind

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-keepsave-whats-on-your-mind.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments
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