top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-31

Problems with the TSA

http://saizai.com/tsa

13 years ago

The Ivy League Was Another Planet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/opinion/elite-colleges-are-as-foreign-as-mars.html

13 years ago

Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

http://nightweb.net/

13 years ago

PostgreSQL as Schemaless Database [pdf]

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/b/b4/Pg-as-nosql-pgday-fosdem-2013.pdf

13 years ago

Kiln

https://github.com/colinta/kiln

13 years ago

Listen to Bitcoin

http://www.listentobitcoin.com/

13 years ago

Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention

http://rein.pk/online-educations-dirty-secret-awful-retention/

13 years ago

JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-assembly#

13 years ago

Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode

https://maps.google.com/maps?t=8

13 years ago

Building Photoshop 1.0

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/3/30_Building_Photoshop.html

13 years ago

What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33470/what-technical-reasons-are-there-to-have-low-maximum-password-lengths

13 years ago

Kerbal Space Program - space flight simulator game

https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/

13 years ago

Want to learn to code? Start here.

http://blog.zackshapiro.com/want-to-learn-to-code-start-here

13 years ago

The RESTful CookBook

http://restcookbook.com/

13 years ago

Rust 0.6 RC is out

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-March/003402.html

13 years ago

Sidr - A jQuery plugin for creating side menus

http://www.berriart.com/sidr/#usage

13 years ago

World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-from-09-is-now-obsolete-will-be-dismantled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

13 years ago

Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal

http://blog.tonybox.net/blog/2013/03/31/doctor-who-style-wi-fi-with-sentient-captive-portal/

13 years ago

Time management hacks

http://www.slideshare.net/egarbugli/26-time-management-hacks-i-wish-id-known-at-20

13 years ago

Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design (1987) [pdf]

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6064/AIM-986.pdf;jsessionid=9B6B8F279FDAC150B9DCA19858ECB6A6?sequence=2

13 years ago

Liberation fonts causing Windows 7 SP1 to BSOD

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62764

13 years ago

By building “fairy circles,” termites engineer their own ecosystem

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/by-building-fairy-circles-termites-engineer-their-own-ecosystem/

13 years ago

PaperCoin - paper offline Bitcoin wallets

http://papercoin.org/

13 years ago

Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert"

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/174407/what-is-chat-with-an-expert

13 years ago

Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights

http://www.techcrunch.com/2013/03/30/developers-should-care-about-oracles-upcoming-appeal-of-the-google-lawsuit

13 years ago

AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/angellist-receives-sec-no-action-letter-days-after-fundersclub/

13 years ago

Ember 1.0 RC2

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/03/30/ember-1-0-rc2.html

13 years ago

Justin Timberlake Made a Fortune Giving His Album Away

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-29/justin-timberlake-made-a-fortune-giving-his-album-away

13 years ago

Show HN: Generate test data for your database tables

http://www.databasetestdata.com/

13 years ago

Repl.it: online environment for interactively exploring programming languages

http://repl.it/#

13 years ago