Hacker News Top Charts - 2013-03-12 to 2013-03-19

Go dark

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

W1

W2

W3

W4

W5

W6

W7

W8

W9

W10

W11

W12

W13

W14

W15

W16

W17

W18

W19

W20

W21

W22

W23

W24

W25

W26

W27

W28

W29

W30

W31

W32

W33

W34

W35

W36

W37

W38

W39

W40

W41

W42

W43

W44

W45

W46

W47

W48

W49

W50

W51

W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Reader shutting down

1926

2

Procrastination is Not Laziness

763

3

How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

664

4

Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

664

5

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

644

6

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

634

7

Future of Firefox DevTools

599

8

The Handshake Deal Protocol

513

9

Official Hacker News T-Shirt

454

10

I'm a loser and I want to change that - now

446

Top Ask HN

1

How did you find your early adopters?

101

2

How much of your time is spent on classical algorithmic problems?

72

3

How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

69

4

Please don't upvote stories before reading the comments

50

5

What should I build?

38

6

Can anyone help a starving programmer?

22

7

How best to cook a steak?

21

8

How far can you take a telecommute career?

19

9

Freelancing, where, how and should I?

19

10

Getting out of severe procrastination and a lack of motivation?

15

Top Show HN

1

XKCD-inspired StackSort

923

2

Weekend project, Intro.js

699

3

Weekend project, fun spin on dating. Only friends edit your profile

190

4

My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

168

5

Word Tree in D3.js

149

6

My 5-year basement Plan 9 project

124

7

a lexer, parser, interpreter and web runtime (np, a 5-weekend project)

118

8

Super simple static blog generator, Benjen

85

9

"Dropbox for Wi-Fi"

84

10

77

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

644

2

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

634

3

Google removes AdBlock for Android from Google Play

353

4

Google: Do what you want with Reader, but don't kill CalDAV

245

5

EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down

224

6

Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too

202

7

Forget the Cellphone Fight We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own

192

8

Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valleys War For Talent

145

9

Bill Gates: Capitalism means male baldness gets more funding than malaria

130

10

The AT&T Hacker Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison

126

News [?]

1

The Internet is a surveillance state

312

2

Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson

263

3

Introducing A New Article Design

171

4

The Cost Of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years Of Regret

166

5

No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite

162

6

Wanted: People Willing to Die on Mars

139

7

The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product

115

8

The Cyprus bail-out: Unfair, short-sighted and self-defeating

110

9

Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says

97

10

Earth Hour is a colossal waste of time and energy

90

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life

5

2

Ion Torrents genome sequencer is cheap,fast & poised to revolutionize medicine

3

3

CMU's CHIMP Humanoid Robot Moves Like a Tank

3

4

Steve Manns Better Version of Reality

2

5

Steve Manns Better Version of Reality

2

6

Brown dwarf binary star discovered 6.5 light years from Earth

2

7

The next xtep in 3D printing

2

8

Major Bug in Bitcoin Software Tests Community and Exchange Rate

2

9

The Gene Machine and Me

2

10

Facebook likes correlated with personal traits

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Namespaces in operation, part 6: more on user namespaces

17

2

Namespaces in operation, part 5: User namespaces

6

3

The Ubuntu Touch experience

5

4

The World Has No Room For Cowards

5

5

Ubuntu unveils its next-generation shell and display server

4

6

Introducing Open Badges 1.0

4

7

Welcome Twitter for Windows 8

3

8

Introduction to Concurrent Haskell - Simon Marlow

2

9

Static File Shootout: Apache RewriteRules vs. Flask Mozilla Web Development

2

10

The conclusion of the 3.9 merge window

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings

195

2

Apple TV Short Review: Analysis of a New A5

34

3

Core i7-4770K: Haswell's Performance, Previewed

13

4

EFFs Fight for Open 3D Printing Continues at Ask Patents

5

5

Nvidia's CUDA Now Features Python Support

4

6

Samsung Galaxy S4 Hands On

4

7

Python as 4th language to get CUDA compiler

4

8

EFF Joins Andrew Auernheimer Case on Appeal

2

9

Aaron Swartzs Lawyers Accuse Prosecutors of Misconduct

2

10

Google Takes the Dark Path, Censors AdBlock Plus on Android

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Announcing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js

84

2

Announcing AMI Copy for Amazon EC2

45

3

Only iPhone has the Retina Display

9

4

Game Day at Obama for America - When Your Systems Have to Work (Free Kindle Ed)

2

5

WebsiteSpark program will no longer be accepting new membership applications.

1

6

Amazon Machine Image Copy to copy your AMIs across zones in EC2

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women

7

2

BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform

6

3

Will you pay for Google Reader each month?

3

4

Who Protects Freedom Of Speech When It Isn’t Profitable To Do So?

3

5

Online Music Piracy Doesnt Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds

3

6

RapidShare Prepares to Mass Delete Free User Data Over 5GB

3

7

Pirate Bay Founders Case Rejected by Human Rights Court

2

8

The Pirate Bays Oldest Torrent is Revolution OS

2

9

Cinavia Anti-Piracy System “Blocked” By AnyDVD

1

10

Ever missed a conference call due to daylight savings?

1

Science News [?]

1

More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

174

2

Obama to announce $2 billion plan to get US cars off gasoline

36

3

Next-Gen Telescopes Could Pick Up Hints of Extraterrestrial Life

5

4

Most popular human cell in science (HeLa) gets sequenced

4

5

Intraterrestrials: Life Thrives in Ocean Floor

2

6

Online learning: Campus 2.0

2

7

Clawed drone grabs prey on the fly just like an eagle

2

8

More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

2

9

Quantum computers leap into the real world

2

10

Early birds flew on four wings

2

Social [?]

1

What I Learned from a Sex-Crazed Short-Order Cook

259

2

Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out

132

3

Startup Australia

66

4

Hitler finds out Google Reader will be shut down

18

5

Al Jazeera report on Irish plan to sell off its forests

15

6

Under the Hood: Indexing and Ranking in Graph Search

9

7

We need to focus

9

8

Building Brains to Understand the World's Data - Jeff Hawkins [video]

8

9

How Busy People Find Time to Think Deeply

8

10

Three Optimization Tips for C++

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

362

2

What do grad students in math do all day?

356

3

Fizz Buzz: Enterprise Edition

309

4

Faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and Node.js

99

5

Backward-cpp A stack trace pretty-printer for C++

85

6

Kandan, an Open Source Alternative to HipChat

79

7

Announcing the Netflix Cloud Prize

72

8

Node-Chimera: headless Webkit in Node.js

68

9

Moving and renaming files on GitHub

62

10

PAWK - A Python line processor (like AWK)

59

Wikipedia [?]

1

110

2

Millennium Challenge 2002 - military simulation

96

3

57

4

5

5

Wikipedia is so dysfunctional. [everybody...] How dysfunctional is it?

4

6

Shamir's Secret Sharing

3

7

Matrioshka Brains

3

8

Joseph Priestley the inventor of soda water's birthday

2

9

Boston Molasses Flood

2

10

'nice' command (Unix)

2

Blogs [?]

1

We'll Be Circling Back

413

2

I've become what I wasn't supposed to be

79

3

Creative People Say No

13

4

The distraction-free iPhone

6

5

Mind the Gap (2004)

5

6

Travel Hack: Make Cold-Brewed Coffee in Your Hotel Room

4

7

Tesla is the new Apple

4

8

Something interesting happened at SXSW

2

9

The Beauty of Agnosticism

2

10

Your Business Is What You Eat

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

JavaScript closures vs. anonymous functions

52

2

Ruby app server options [2013 edition]

4

3

What is node.js?

4

4

Awesome Stack Overflow Answer

3

5

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? [closed]

2

6

What is the name of this operator: "-->"?

2

7

Cache InvalidationIs there a General Solution?

1

8

Hidden joys of Stackoverflow

1

9

Worst security hole you've ever seen?

1

10

How do you change a repository description on GitHub?

1

Substack [?]