The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2012
We track 675 stories from March 2012, averaging 232 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 15 stories. Together they drew 53,626 comments, 79 per story on average.
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Show HN: This up votes itself
news.ycombinator.com · olalonde · 23 Mar 2012
3.5k pts
82 comments
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2
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com · zotz · 6 Mar 2012
1.6k pts
330 comments
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4
DuckDuckGo is blowing up
duckduckgo.com · MatthewPhillips · 29 Mar 2012
1.2k pts
203 comments
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5
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
npr.org · MaysonL · 1 Mar 2012
1.2k pts
172 comments
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6
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
paulgraham.com · anateus · 10 Mar 2012
1k pts
430 comments
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10
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
nytimes.com · roam · 14 Mar 2012
896 pts
249 comments
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12
TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com · ddelphin · 8 Mar 2012
745 pts
149 comments
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13
There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
people.xiph.org · nullc · 5 Mar 2012
732 pts
316 comments
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14
A Woman’s Story
raganwald.posterous.com · raganwald · 29 Mar 2012
716 pts
194 comments
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15
Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
fortaweso.me · fortawesome · 6 Mar 2012
711 pts
91 comments
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16
There's no speed limit (2009)
sivers.org · tnorthcutt · 27 Mar 2012
699 pts
194 comments
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17
Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees
minecraftforum.net · citricsquid · 1 Mar 2012
694 pts
209 comments
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18
Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20
google.com · ing33k · 30 Mar 2012
692 pts
135 comments
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19
New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea
ycombinator.com · pg · 13 Mar 2012
687 pts
292 comments
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21
Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
github.com · stwe · 4 Mar 2012
655 pts
225 comments
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22
How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies
mediumdifficulty.com · mziulu · 7 Mar 2012
650 pts
119 comments
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23
Eight years today
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 10 Mar 2012
639 pts
60 comments
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24
Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request
schneier.com · zdw · 26 Mar 2012
630 pts
96 comments
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25
The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men
techcitement.com · d2vid · 29 Mar 2012
629 pts
196 comments
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26
A violently true depiction of what war really is
mediumdifficulty.com · sberder · 2 Mar 2012
627 pts
254 comments
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27
Give it five minutes
37signals.com · sathishmanohar · 1 Mar 2012
620 pts
71 comments
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28
Posterous acquired by Twitter
blog.posterous.com · michaelfairley · 12 Mar 2012
612 pts
160 comments
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29
GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.
chrisacky.posterous.com · chrisacky · 4 Mar 2012
590 pts
185 comments
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30
Go version 1 is released
blog.golang.org · enneff · 28 Mar 2012
582 pts
148 comments
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31
Please do not take down the Sality botnet
seclists.org · wglb · 28 Mar 2012
575 pts
142 comments
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32
This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"
thisamericanlife.org · tptacek · 16 Mar 2012
564 pts
225 comments
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33
Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%
blog.kicksend.com · skyfallsin · 20 Mar 2012
561 pts
100 comments
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34
Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
jeanniejeannie.com · michaelkscott · 23 Mar 2012
556 pts
53 comments
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37
How Y Combinator Started
ycombinator.com · llambda · 15 Mar 2012
542 pts
98 comments
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39
No way I am calling you for a price
labaraka.tumblr.com · labaraka · 15 Mar 2012
514 pts
158 comments
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40
Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot
geekchick77.dreamwidth.org · dpritchett · 28 Mar 2012
505 pts
349 comments
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41
7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
highscalability.com · yarapavan · 26 Mar 2012
504 pts
70 comments
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43
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
catonmat.net · freestyler · 9 Mar 2012
478 pts
98 comments
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44
Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?
thepiratebay.com · flux_w42 · 18 Mar 2012
476 pts
141 comments
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47
Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
browserquest.mozilla.org · guigui · 27 Mar 2012
468 pts
106 comments
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48
'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
commondreams.org · saulrh · 24 Mar 2012
464 pts
175 comments
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49
Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels
extremetech.com · mrsebastian · 13 Mar 2012
464 pts
156 comments
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50
A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com · pascal07 · 12 Mar 2012
463 pts
192 comments
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51
From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)
blog.codiqa.com · yesimahuman · 20 Mar 2012
459 pts
120 comments
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52
Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
maps.google.com · loucal · 31 Mar 2012
455 pts
105 comments
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53
Viral Video About Body Scanners
blog.tsa.gov · maverhick · 8 Mar 2012
448 pts
198 comments
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54
Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing
youtu.be · got2surf · 3 Mar 2012
447 pts
93 comments
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55
Pinterest, We Have a Problem
whatblag.com · CMartucci · 7 Mar 2012
446 pts
151 comments
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56
"Egor, stop hacking Github"
homakov.blogspot.com · llambda · 4 Mar 2012
446 pts
111 comments
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58
A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
apenwarr.ca · rcfox · 26 Mar 2012
436 pts
90 comments
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59
Advice From An Old Programmer
learnpythonthehardway.org · bemmu · 8 Mar 2012
429 pts
122 comments
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60
From MIT, a cure for all viruses?
process.org · MRonney · 29 Mar 2012
426 pts
107 comments
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