The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2012

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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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$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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"Lighten up" therealkatie.net · jnoller · 21 Mar 2012

1.4k pts 794 comments

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DuckDuckGo is blowing up duckduckgo.com · MatthewPhillips · 29 Mar 2012

1.2k pts 203 comments

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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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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas paulgraham.com · anateus · 10 Mar 2012

1k pts 430 comments

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Why I Left Google blogs.msdn.com · cangencer · 13 Mar 2012

947 pts 306 comments

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I am very real lettersofnote.com · etrain · 30 Mar 2012

943 pts 150 comments

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Wind Map hint.fm · taylorbuley · 28 Mar 2012

909 pts 79 comments

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Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs nytimes.com · roam · 14 Mar 2012

896 pts 249 comments

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Codename: Obtvse natewienert.com · nwienert · 23 Mar 2012

889 pts 355 comments

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TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com · ddelphin · 8 Mar 2012

745 pts 149 comments

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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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A Woman’s Story raganwald.posterous.com · raganwald · 29 Mar 2012

716 pts 194 comments

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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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There's no speed limit (2009) sivers.org · tnorthcutt · 27 Mar 2012

699 pts 194 comments

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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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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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New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea ycombinator.com · pg · 13 Mar 2012

687 pts 292 comments

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Time.is time.is · ddw · 11 Mar 2012

661 pts 107 comments

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Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub github.com · stwe · 4 Mar 2012

655 pts 225 comments

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How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies mediumdifficulty.com · mziulu · 7 Mar 2012

650 pts 119 comments

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Eight years today paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 10 Mar 2012

639 pts 60 comments

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Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request schneier.com · zdw · 26 Mar 2012

630 pts 96 comments

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The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men techcitement.com · d2vid · 29 Mar 2012

629 pts 196 comments

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A violently true depiction of what war really is mediumdifficulty.com · sberder · 2 Mar 2012

627 pts 254 comments

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Give it five minutes 37signals.com · sathishmanohar · 1 Mar 2012

620 pts 71 comments

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Posterous acquired by Twitter blog.posterous.com · michaelfairley · 12 Mar 2012

612 pts 160 comments

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GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. chrisacky.posterous.com · chrisacky · 4 Mar 2012

590 pts 185 comments

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Go version 1 is released blog.golang.org · enneff · 28 Mar 2012

582 pts 148 comments

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Please do not take down the Sality botnet seclists.org · wglb · 28 Mar 2012

575 pts 142 comments

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This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory" thisamericanlife.org · tptacek · 16 Mar 2012

564 pts 225 comments

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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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Frustro: The Impossible Typeface jeanniejeannie.com · michaelkscott · 23 Mar 2012

556 pts 53 comments

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Defining Property paulgraham.com · anateus · 12 Mar 2012

551 pts 299 comments

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Where’s _why? slate.com · ggualberto · 15 Mar 2012

548 pts 186 comments

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How Y Combinator Started ycombinator.com · llambda · 15 Mar 2012

542 pts 98 comments

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Yahoo Crosses The Line avc.com · barrynolan · 13 Mar 2012

525 pts 230 comments

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No way I am calling you for a price labaraka.tumblr.com · labaraka · 15 Mar 2012

514 pts 158 comments

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Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot geekchick77.dreamwidth.org · dpritchett · 28 Mar 2012

505 pts 349 comments

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7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes highscalability.com · yarapavan · 26 Mar 2012

504 pts 70 comments

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Paypal Does it Again regretsy.com · cwan · 12 Mar 2012

486 pts 149 comments

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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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Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"? thepiratebay.com · flux_w42 · 18 Mar 2012

476 pts 141 comments

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Show HN: A Way To Hack HN's Karma GreekOphion · 23 Mar 2012

472 pts 33 comments

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OSX For Hackers gist.github.com · zackattack · 31 Mar 2012

469 pts 117 comments

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Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment browserquest.mozilla.org · guigui · 27 Mar 2012

468 pts 106 comments

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'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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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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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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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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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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Viral Video About Body Scanners blog.tsa.gov · maverhick · 8 Mar 2012

448 pts 198 comments

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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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Pinterest, We Have a Problem whatblag.com · CMartucci · 7 Mar 2012

446 pts 151 comments

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"Egor, stop hacking Github" homakov.blogspot.com · llambda · 4 Mar 2012

446 pts 111 comments

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What HN users don't mean to be hnsearch.com · pg · 3 Mar 2012

442 pts 128 comments

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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure apenwarr.ca · rcfox · 26 Mar 2012

436 pts 90 comments

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Advice From An Old Programmer learnpythonthehardway.org · bemmu · 8 Mar 2012

429 pts 122 comments

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From MIT, a cure for all viruses? process.org · MRonney · 29 Mar 2012

426 pts 107 comments