top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-24

I Bought A Firetruck

http://geckodesigns.kinja.com/so-i-bought-a-firetruck-252516685

13 years ago

708 upvotes – 273 comments

A scientific accident that could change the world

http://io9.com/5987086/meet-the-scientific-accident-that-could-change-the-world

13 years ago

464 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

http://www.doineedavisafor.com/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 158 comments

The Flask Mega-Tutorial

http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 56 comments

Too Perfect a Mirror

http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Use Nginx?

http://wiki.nginx.org/WhyUseIt

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 88 comments

Python data tools just keep getting better

http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/03/python-data-tools-just-keep-getting-better.html

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 34 comments

Introduction to Machine Learning

http://alex.smola.org/teaching/cmu2013-10-701/index.html

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 21 comments

Chrome Inspector Detector

http://adamschwartz.co/chrome-inspector-detector

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 86 comments

Super Mario World "Completed" in Under 3 Minutes by Corrupting the RAM

http://minimaxir.com/2013/03/127-yoshis-in-slot-6/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 70 comments

Postgres Demystified

https://speakerdeck.com/craigkerstiens/postgres-demystified

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Overcomming a federal conviction (computer fraud) for decent job?

http://pastebin.ca/2339721

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 175 comments

Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

http://americablog.com/2013/03/facebook-might-know-youre-gay-before-you-do.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 88 comments

Negative space logos and symbols

http://briandelaney.me/design-inspiration-negative-space-logos-and-symbols

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 49 comments

Draw UML Sequence Diagrams with new Javascript library

http://bramp.github.com/js-sequence-diagrams/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles

http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 58 comments

Storms and Teacups

http://acko.net/blog/storms-and-teacups/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on Xen

http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 55 comments

Shark Tank Statistics

http://www.sharktank.tvquotes.net/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Bill Gates Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better Condom

http://mashable.com/2013/03/23/bill-gates-condom

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 80 comments

Samsung's future is Tizen, not Android

http://www.osnews.com/story/26865/Samsung_s_future_is_Tizen_not_Android

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Children should be allowed to get bored

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

An A from Nabokov

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/04/a-from-nabokov/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

How Getting Married and Having Kids Made Me a Better Programmer

http://johnpolacek.com/2013/03/24/how-getting-married-and-having-kids-made-me-a-better-programmer/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

How Etsy Attracted 500% More Female Engineers

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3005681/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 106 comments

You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help

http://chronicle.com/article/Youre-Distracted-This/138079/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

JavaScript integration between Sublime Text and Chrome DevTools

http://thechangelog.com/whoa-sublime-web-inspector/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell

http://www.highexistence.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-huxley-vs-orwell/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter to RPG camp

http://www.playereffort.com/?p=3884

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 113 comments

Strangest language feature

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/1995117

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Poll: would you visit a "thinkerspace?"

http://begriffs.wufoo.com/forms/is-this-a-good-idea/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments
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