top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-25

How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

http://www.knife-depot.com/blog/how-google-sliced-away-our-knife-ads/

13 years ago

560 upvotes – 327 comments

Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice

http://sivers.org/learn-js

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 93 comments

Can We Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?

http://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-trees-on-top-of-skyscrapers/#.UU-2q9uRnOI.facebook

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 132 comments

‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 119 comments

An idea for non-technical co-founders: try a service-first business

http://benogle.com/2013/03/25/an-idea-for-non-technical-founders-service-first-business.html

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 45 comments

Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/02/25/firefox-getting-smarter-about-third-party-cookies/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 100 comments

Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories

https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Framebase.io, Video for Developers

https://framebase.io/

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever been sued by your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438040

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments

Tsuru - open source platform as a service (written in Go)

http://globocom.github.com/tsuru/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 57 comments

Checkout github pull requests locally

https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 12 comments

How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-kids-stole-show-young-coders.html

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 22 comments

Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/technology/nasty-gal-an-online-start-up-is-a-fast-growing-retailer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

Solar-Powered Trash Cans Saved Philadelphia Almost a Million Bucks Last Year

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/solar-powered-trash-cans-saved-philadelphia-almost-a-million-bucks

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 67 comments

Terminology – a new terminal emulator

http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology&l=en

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 137 comments

Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet

http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 33 comments

Zero-downtime restarts in Go

https://github.com/rcrowley/goagain

13 years ago

★ 2k Go
141 upvotes – 42 comments

How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/how_criticizing_in_private_und.html

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

$10,000 Raised for PyLadies at PyCon 2013

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/10000-raised-for-pyladies-at-pycon-2013.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 181 comments

Things Every Programmer Should Know

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contributions_Appearing_in_the_Book

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts

http://juliepagano.tumblr.com/post/46206589124/my-experiences-in-tech-death-by-1000-paper-cuts

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 209 comments

Upside risk

http://blog.samaltman.com/upside-risk

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Was Alan Turing right about the mechanism behind tiger stripes?

https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/biologists-home-in-on-turing-patterns/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Optimized trading algorithms using IPython parallel and ec2

http://twiecki.github.com/zipline_in_the_cloud_talk/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

Why did Alan Kay say the Internet was done well, but the Web was by amateurs?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/191738/why-did-alan-kay-say-the-internet-was-so-well-done-but-the-web-was-by-amateur

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 96 comments

Compiling LLJS to asm.js

http://jlongster.com/Compiling-LLJS-to-asm.js,-Now-Available-?hn

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Aaron Swartz case an issue in Massachusetts Senate race

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/03/23/aaron-swartz-case-issue-mass-senate-race/9vQsMYEFGFYWkwMsZRLC1L/story.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: My weekend Project - Almost Flat UI Theme

http://websymphony.net/almost-flat-ui/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From

http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

How I became a password cracker

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-password-cracker/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/25/digg-says-its-serious-about-building-a-replacement-for-google-reader-outlines-its-focus/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 70 comments

Geary: a beautiful modern open-source email client

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/geary-a-beautiful-modern-open-source-email-client/x/1746809

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

Revamped Cyprus deal to close bank, force losses

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130325

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

Patterns for Managing Large Scale Backbone Applications

http://benhowdle.im/2013/03/24/patterns-for-managing-large-scale-backbone-applications/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

80 chars per line is great

http://wrongsideofmemphis.com/2013/03/25/80-chars-per-line-is-great/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 118 comments

Programming languages ranked by expressiveness

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/03/25/programming-languages-ranked-by-expressiveness/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

How I Pitched Dave McClure In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time

http://marcin.is/post/46281218323/how-i-pitched-dave-mcclure-in-the-wrong-place-at-the

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

The same app 4 times: PHP vs Python vs Ruby vs Clojure

http://adambard.com/blog/PHP-ruby-python-clojure-webapps-by-example/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 92 comments

Armenia is the first country in the world to make chess mandatory in school

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/201331792224757326.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Pedestal – An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure

http://pedestal.io/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Expect – automates programs that expose a text terminal interface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Prizeo (YC W13) Helps Celebrities Tap Their Fans For Charity Fundraising

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/prizeo-launch/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

You Can’t Quit, I Dare You

http://brooksreview.net/2013/03/quit-i-dare-you/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

Hands-on Angular.js with Backlift part 1: Views and Controllers

https://blog.backlift.com/entry/angular-tut1

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/03/25/0215212/testers-say-ie-11-can-impersonate-firefox-via-user-agent-string

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Yahoo Acquires News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/25/yahoo-acquires-information-gathering-startup-summly/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

BitNami (YC W13) Launches App Store for Server Software

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/25/y-combinator-company-bitnami-makes-deeper-move-on-booming-app-store-market/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

E2 Visa for Startup Founders 101

http://www.expresslaneventures.com/post/46253612238/e2-visa-for-startup-founders-101

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation

http://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

Native iOS development made simple [video]

http://www.smore.com/dkr3

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments
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