top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-23

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry

http://www.zdnet.com/embrace-extend-extinguish-how-google-crushed-and-abandoned-the-rss-industry-7000013025/

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 193 comments

How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes

http://www.debiki.com/-9qb49-solving-problem-first-comment-gets-all-upvotes

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 125 comments

Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323869604578370574285382756.html

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 110 comments

Blocked Sites is discontinued

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210386

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 139 comments

Linus on Oregon HB 2748 and US education in general

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/J1NCgKQi55X

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on

https://github.com/fearofcode/bateman

13 years ago

★ 726 Java MIT
169 upvotes – 51 comments

Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Unintended-and-Deadly-Consequences-of-Living-in-the-Industrialized-World-199164051.html?c=y&page=1

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 59 comments

Academia Is Eating Its Young

http://www.pressbuttongoboink.com/post/46098715071/academia-is-eating-its-young

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 107 comments

Why no curl 8

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

http://www.dafacto.com/2013/03/22/rego-goes-viral-in-brazil/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 56 comments

A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1

http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=785

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

The Economics of Evil Google

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/the-economics-of-evil-google/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 115 comments

Fernando Pérez of IPython fame wins the Free Software Foundation Award

http://about.wise.io/2013/03/23/fernando-perez.html

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Use your phone to present slides on any screen

http://uslide.net/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

Nokia discloses their patents on VP8/WebM

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2035/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

The Myth of Focus

http://www.mindvalleyinsights.com/the-myth-of-focus/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal

http://aasen.in/blog/sl/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

Mouse path smoothing

http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post3138_mouse-path-smoothing-for-jack-lumber

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don't Think Students Deserve Credit

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/72-of-professors-who-teach-online-courses-dont-think-their-students-deserve-credit/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

There are Ladies Present

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/22/There-are-ladies-present.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 109 comments

US Senate approves proposed Internet Sales Tax

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/23/u-s-senate-approves-proposed-internet-sales-tax/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 128 comments

The Tunnels of NYC's East Side Access Project

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/the-tunnels-of-nycs-east-side-access-project/100462/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use

http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/22/ap-wins-big-why-a-court-said-clipping-content-is-not-fair-use/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

GoIRC - Event-based stateful IRC client framework for Go

https://github.com/fluffle/goirc

13 years ago

★ 515 Go BSD-3-Clause
85 upvotes – 27 comments

Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/finale-for-now-on-googles-self-inflicted-trust-problem/274286/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

https://status.github.com/?2013-03-24

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 138 comments

Fltdsgn - a showcase of flat UI design

http://fltdsgn.com/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782211

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

ArchiveTeam + Yahoo Messages Shuttering + EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl

http://rossduggan.ie/blog/technology/archiveteam-yahoo-messages-shuttering-ec2-spot-instances-megacrawl/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Archiving Yahoo Messages: update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428156

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

The Purple Crayon

http://clayallsopp.com/posts/harold-and-the-purple-crayon/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/23/apple-acquires-indoor-location-company-wifislam/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

http://betabeers.com/uploads/estudios/crunchbase-startup-data/?

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

Linux Kernel 3.2.41 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/543662/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience

http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/23/the-pirate-bay-is-a-trailblazer-in-technical-resilience/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Trip.js, a jQuery plugin for product landing page navigation

http://eragonj.github.com/Trip.js/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Installing swank.js

http://www.idryman.org/blog/2013/03/23/installing-swank-dot-js/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Long-term research: Slow science

http://www.nature.com/news/long-term-research-slow-science-1.12623?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130321

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

Apple looks to protect dropped iPhones by shifting their orientation mid-flight

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=12&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28apple.AS.+AND+20130321.PD.%29&OS=an/apple+and+pd/3/21/2013&RS=%28AN/apple+AND+PD/20130321%29

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 42 comments

Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1

http://blog.zmxv.com/2012/03/migrated-wordgap-from-python-to-go.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments
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