top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-21

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

13 years ago

1023 upvotes – 367 comments

A Difficult Situation

http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/

13 years ago

587 upvotes – 432 comments

What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-March/035200.html

13 years ago

497 upvotes – 151 comments

Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/sorry-google-you-can-keep-it-to-yourself/

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 228 comments

PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming

https://github.com/python/pycon-code-of-conduct/commit/500a3d25c27065598002f7c999de3fdfb7ab18b1

13 years ago

★ 112
395 upvotes – 371 comments

I’m done with the web

http://randyluecke.tumblr.com/post/45915323813/im-done-with-the-web

13 years ago

376 upvotes – 275 comments

Official comment from HN on dead threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416908

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 184 comments

SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

http://mashable.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-fires-adria-richards/

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 559 comments

HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

http://blog.hipchat.com/2013/03/21/hipchat-now-free-for-teams-of-5-users-or-fewer/

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 117 comments

Chrome World Wide Maze

http://chrome.com/maze/

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 117 comments

Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2013/03/21/asm-js-in-firefox-nightly/

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 130 comments

Just Use Sublime Text

http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2013/03/16/just-use-sublime-text/

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 286 comments

PyCon 2013 Videos

http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 48 comments

Wherein SFPD is still going surveillance-nutty

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2013/03/20.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 82 comments

Orin Kerr: Why I Am Representing Auernheimer Pro Bono on Appeal

http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/21/united-states-v-auernheimer-and-why-i-am-representing-auernheimer-pro-bono-on-appeal-before-the-third-circuit/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 110 comments

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards?

https://www.facebook.com/SendGrid/posts/10151502570463967

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/21/apples-data-centers-now-running-on-100-renewable-energy-corporate-facilities-at-75/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 86 comments

From 1.5 GB to 50 MB: The Story of my Redis Database

http://davidcel.is/blog/2013/03/20/the-story-of-my-redis-database/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 32 comments

SendGrid fires Adria Richards?

http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 80 comments

Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial crisis grows

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/20/bitcoin-spain-currency-run

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 108 comments

Making EmberJS Easier

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/03/21/making-ember-easier.html

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 27 comments

Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

http://sivers.org/hi

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 34 comments

The Y Combinator Startup Index

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/the-y-combinator-index/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 58 comments

How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/ff-corning-gorilla-glass/all/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Dating with Graph Search

http://jacksongariety.com/journals/dating-with-graph-search

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

Disconnected

http://paulrouget.com/e/taiwan2013/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 62 comments

How did my Google Reader logo become the "default"?

http://mgalligan.com/post/45919481419/my-google-reader-logo

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/springupdate2013/springfeesimplification.html#feesataglance

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 98 comments

Stripe partners with Parse to ease accepting payments in mobile apps

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/03/21/stripe-partners-with-parse-and-updates-android-and-ios-libraries-to-ease-accepting-payments-in-mobile-apps/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/apple-jony-ive-ios-design-interface/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Going Beyond Django ORM with Postgres

https://speakerdeck.com/craigkerstiens/going-beyond-django-orm-with-postgres

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=330

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 70 comments

Sendgrid is down

http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 97 comments

Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for outting developers

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/21/breaking-adria-richards-fired-by-sendgrid-for-outting-developers-on-twitter/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/alfred-anaya/all/&src=longreads

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

9 Year-Old Raising Money to Attend RPG Camp

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson/9-year-old-building-an-rpg-to-prove-her-brothers-w

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

Sketchfab: 3D Portfolio website

http://sketchfab.me

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Interactive course to explore Chrome DevTools

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/03/discover-chrome-devtools-our-new.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Why I don't self-publish

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-dont-self-publish.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple Adds Two-Step Verification to iCloud and Apple ID

https://appleid.apple.com/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Playhaven developer fired for sexual jokes

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/playhaven-developer-fired-for-making-sexual-jokes-after-sendgrids-developer-evangelist-outs-him-on-twitter/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 139 comments

MPAA: The Cloud Is A Threat To Us And The Best Response Is Censorship

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130320/16033322402/motion-picture-association-cloud-is-threat-to-us-best-response-is-censorship.shtml

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Apple, wtf is wrong with you?

http://daniel.morrione.net/2013/03/20/apple-wtf/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 121 comments

Escher Illusions in LaTeX

https://www.writelatex.com/docs?snip_uri=http://www.texample.net/media/tikz/examples/TEX/escher-brick-penrose-triangle.tex&splash=none

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for web content

http://www.jotleaf.com/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Your next smartphone might use sapphire glass instead of Gorilla Glass

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/151146-your-next-smartphone-might-use-sapphire-glass-instead-of-gorilla-glass

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 63 comments
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