top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-26

Persona is distributed. Today.

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/46374271364/persona-is-distributed-today

13 years ago

573 upvotes – 147 comments

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing

13 years ago

569 upvotes – 330 comments

What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/26/summly/

13 years ago

463 upvotes – 272 comments

Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source

http://docker.io

13 years ago

403 upvotes – 76 comments

The Summly deal makes no sense

http://philosophically.com/the-summly-deal-makes-no-sense

13 years ago

379 upvotes – 251 comments

The power of the RSS reader

http://www.marco.org/2013/03/26/power-of-rss

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 80 comments

Introduction to Go 1.1

https://go.googlecode.com/hg/doc/go1.1.html

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 237 comments

10 000 concurrent real-time connections to Django

https://github.com/aaugustin/django-c10k-demo

13 years ago

★ 665 Python BSD-3-Clause
186 upvotes – 39 comments

22 and no life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446634

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 188 comments

DIY cellphone

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 56 comments

He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 154 comments

If PHP were British

http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 89 comments

Hire talent, not five years with Java

http://gillesleblanc.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/hire-talent-not-five-years-with-java/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: I made a site for hosting/selling indie games

http://itch.io

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 75 comments

Forecast – Worldwide Weather Forecasts From the Makers of Dark Sky

http://forecast.io

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 45 comments

BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-s-bram-cohen-patents-revolutionary-live-streaming-protocol-130326/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

The Truth About Brining Turkey

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/the-food-lab-the-truth-about-brining-turkey-thanksgiving.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

Polycode – Open Source, cross-platform framework for games and interactive apps

http://polycode.org

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

Mailchimp offers 10% discount for using 2-factor security

http://blog.mailchimp.com/new-subscriber-profile-pages/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 34 comments

Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

http://www.flailingmonkey.com/2013/03/26/moving-contacts-calendar-google/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 125 comments

Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 35 comments

My Interview Questions for Potential Employers

http://www.runtime-era.com/2013/03/my-interview-questions-for-potential.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 119 comments

GCHQ – Not So Secure?

http://danfarrall.com/gchq/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 74 comments

Would it be hard to have a mobile style sheet for HN with pressable buttons?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440794

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming

http://lispwebtales.ppenev.com/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Nginx-1.3.15 development version released, featuring experimental SPDY module

http://nginx.org/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Ruby 1.8.7 EOL in 90 days

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/47201

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

USPS Discrimination Against Atheism?

http://www.atheistberlin.com/study

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 102 comments

2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future

https://medium.com/we-live-in-the-future/cbd6bdc6b283

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/second-attempt-at-ml-stochastic-gradient-descent-method-using-hinge-loss-function

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Your Startup’s Most Important Metrics

http://tomtunguz.com/your-startups-10-most-important-metrics/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Ad industry threatens Firefox users with more ads if Mozilla moves on tracking

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237847/Ad_industry_threatens_Firefox_users_with_more_ads_if_Mozilla_moves_on_tracking_plans

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 111 comments

Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/26/y-combinator-winter-2013-demo-day-batch-1/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

http://ycombinator.com/dday.html#

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

Silk – Interactive Generative Art

http://weavesilk.com/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Don’t Get Bored at Demo Day

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/onstartups/dont-get-bored-at-demo-day-2/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

Getting Started with Django Lesson 3, Testing

http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/en/lessons/testing-microblog/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Is Beijing beginning a campaign against Apple?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/03/24/did-china-just-declare-war-on-apple-sure-looks-like-it/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 69 comments

T-Mobile iPhone goes from myth to reality: $580, but no contract

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/03/t-mobile-iphone-goes-from-myth-to-reality-580-but-no-contract/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 83 comments

The Top 7 Startups From Y Combinator’s Winter ’13 Demo Day

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/26/top-y-combinator-startups/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments

Sync to Paper

http://robertgreiner.com/2013/03/sync-to-paper/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/25/robert-wilensky-dies-at-61/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Getting started with Python: Tips, Tools and Resources

http://lurnq.com/lesson/Getting-started-with-Python-Tips-Tools-and-Resources/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick

http://webpop.github.com/jquery.pin/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool

http://instantname.me/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

How I develop Django projects

http://blog.kristian.io/post/46338461184/how-i-develop-django-projects

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Manipulate the DOM before any resources have loaded using Capturing

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/capturing-improving-performance-of-the-adaptive-web/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=capturing

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Lisp 1.6 from the IBM 1130

http://ibm1130.org/sw/lisp

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Curated Newsletter of Show HNs

http://www.weekendupdate.me/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform

http://postach.io

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Most popular JVM memory configurations

http://plumbr.eu/blog/most-popular-memory-configurations

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

ElasticInbox – Open Source Distributed Email Store

http://www.elasticinbox.com/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/watsi-and-the-future-of-patronage/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Don't specify X years of experience required - You're breaking the law

http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2013/3/26/don-t-specify-x-years-of-experience-required-you-re-breaking-the-law

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 66 comments

Sweden axes new word after Google intervenes

http://www.thelocal.se/46940/20130326/#.UVFX93E2fUg

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 62 comments

Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Xavier Niel will open a "revolutionary" computer school

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itiqdPuFgJIqJ-SEe84tXLAMQIEQ?docId=CNG.a4f918170fa7b372b01a63df2cf799c5.a1

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Paul Graham Says Y Combinator Is Pickier Than Ever, ‘Hardly Any’ Bad Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/26/paul-graham-picky/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments

Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Copyright Rights

http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/275129/writing-open-source-software-make-sure-you-know-your-copyright-rights

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments
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