top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-29

Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python

https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft

13 years ago

★ 5.4k Python MIT
401 upvotes – 108 comments

Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-deaths-in-2012-sound-alarm-on-malady.html?hp

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 153 comments

The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell

http://jmtame.posthaven.com/the-lie-hollywood-loves-to-tell/

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 249 comments

Ask PG: Did the "apply to YC without an idea" experiment work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5463071

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 58 comments

tmux 1.8 Released

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 159 comments

A new blog dedicated to Emacs

http://emacsredux.com/

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 57 comments

Two Letters from Steve Jobs

http://davidgelphman.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/2-letters-from-steve/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 84 comments

ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment

https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/zfs-announce/ZXADhyOwFfA

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 101 comments

The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way

http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-ouya-works-its-here-and-its-heading-your-way-our-first-look-at-the-fini

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 108 comments

Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/bitcoin-hits-1-billion

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 195 comments

What Being a Handyman Has Taught Me About Male Insecurity

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/what-being-a-handyman-has-taught-me-about-male-insecurity/274426/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 130 comments

"Attrition is a group statistic. It doesn't apply to me."

http://josephwalla.com/attrition-is-a-group-statistic-it-dont-apply-to-me

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 110 comments

If Only I Knew This Shit in College

http://zachholman.com/talk/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-college/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+holman+%28zachholman.com%29

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 93 comments

Why You Make Less Money

http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2013/03/29/less/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 108 comments

Why is my TI-99/4A in Black and White?

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=672

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 46 comments

“My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost.”

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=160292

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 164 comments

.NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison

http://www.salmanq.com/blog/net-and-node-js-performance-comparison/2013/03/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 109 comments

No, ZFS really doesn't need an fsck tool

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071-No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-need-a-fsck.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Firebase bindings for AngularJS

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-for-angular.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money

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

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 129 comments

Boston Police use fake social media accounts to phish indie rock show info

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/03/boston_police_catfishing_indie_rockers_cops_pose_as_punks_on_the_internet.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 107 comments

India as a great power

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21574458-india-poised-become-one-four-largest-military-powers-world-end

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Bitcoin: The Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency

http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/bitcoin-the-cyberpunk-cryptocurrency

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 97 comments

Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/lets-go-back-to-grouping-students-by-ability/274362/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

When Things Don't Work Out

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/03/when-things-dont-work-out.html#

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Create your next conference poster with LaTeX

http://www.latextemplates.com/template/jacobs-landscape-poster

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

The Setup: Joe Armstrong

http://joe.armstrong.usesthis.com/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/03/28/musk-spacex-to-attempt-falcon-9-first-stage-water-landing/?

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Discourse now available in BitNami

http://bitnami.com/stack/discourse

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Titan 0.3.0 Released: Geo, full-text, edge indexing on billion edge graphs

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Getting-Started

13 years ago

★ 5.2k Java Apache-2.0
76 upvotes – 29 comments

Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/28/study-packages-sealed-with-atheist-tape-10-times-more-likely-to-disappear/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

A robotic dragonfly with a wingspan of 63 cm

http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/design-engineering/news/festo-to-fly-bionicopter-at-hannover-design-eng-99101

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Cyprus Bailout: Stupidity, Short-Sightedness, Something Else?

http://www.cyprus.com/cyprus-bailout-stupidity-short-sightedness-something-else-.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 85 comments

Introducing Adobe Blank

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/03/introducing-adobe-blank.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

LivingSocial co-founder Aaron Battalion quits

http://aaronbatalion.com/post/46617716711/moving-on-to-new-adventures

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

Richard Stallman on the Ogg Vorbis license (2001)

https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 68 comments

Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know

http://postmasculine.com/33-things-every-aspiring-entrepreneur-should-know

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Unified API of WebSocket and HTTP long polling/streaming for Clojure

http://http-kit.org/index.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Life After PHP

http://s3.amazonaws.com/Blogger-log/index.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: IsThisLost helps you recover lost items like keys and phones

http://www.isthislost.com

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 42 comments
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