The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2013
We track 717 stories from March 2013, averaging 225 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 19 stories. Together they drew 76,193 comments, 106 per story on average.
1
Google Reader shutting down
googleblog.blogspot.com · knurdle · 13 Mar 2013
2k pts
695 comments
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2
Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
bjk5.com · df07 · 6 Mar 2013
1.7k pts
191 comments
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4
Diamonds Are Bullshit
blog.priceonomics.com · danielpal · 19 Mar 2013
1.1k pts
734 comments
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5
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
amandablumwords.wordpress.com · hexis · 21 Mar 2013
1k pts
367 comments
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6
How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server
plusbryan.com · solfox · 4 Mar 2013
960 pts
341 comments
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7
Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort
gkoberger.github.com · gkoberger · 18 Mar 2013
948 pts
198 comments
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8
Why I'm switching back to Firefox
campaul.net · dave1010uk · 11 Mar 2013
928 pts
423 comments
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9
Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
designmodo.github.com · jamesbritt · 4 Mar 2013
872 pts
191 comments
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10
Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
playadrift.com · seanalltogether · 6 Mar 2013
858 pts
329 comments
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11
The DDoS that almost broke the Internet
blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 27 Mar 2013
830 pts
171 comments
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12
You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?
plus.google.com · jmonegro · 20 Mar 2013
808 pts
144 comments
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13
Procrastination is Not Laziness
thoughtcatalog.com · alanfalcon · 15 Mar 2013
771 pts
173 comments
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14
White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
petitions.whitehouse.gov · sinak · 4 Mar 2013
752 pts
274 comments
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15
What really happened at PyCon 2013
peak5390.wordpress.com · LeafStorm · 22 Mar 2013
746 pts
104 comments
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17
Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js
usablica.github.com · afshinmeh · 15 Mar 2013
716 pts
154 comments
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18
Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
amazon.com · mrcharles · 7 Mar 2013
708 pts
434 comments
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19
I Bought A Firetruck
geckodesigns.kinja.com · amartya916 · 24 Mar 2013
708 pts
273 comments
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20
Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
automatic.com · gresrun · 12 Mar 2013
690 pts
295 comments
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21
How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
blog.iron.io · treeder · 12 Mar 2013
688 pts
495 comments
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23
This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
vice.com · Aco- · 13 Mar 2013
656 pts
502 comments
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24
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them
wired.com · TDL · 15 Mar 2013
646 pts
172 comments
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25
A Note from one of Cloudflare's upstream providers
cluepon.net · jauer · 28 Mar 2013
644 pts
87 comments
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27
Future of Firefox DevTools
paulrouget.com · paulrouget · 18 Mar 2013
612 pts
165 comments
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29
A Difficult Situation
blog.sendgrid.com · jbaudanza · 21 Mar 2013
587 pts
432 comments
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30
Persona is distributed. Today.
identity.mozilla.com · charlieok · 26 Mar 2013
573 pts
147 comments
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31
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
propublica.org · danso · 26 Mar 2013
569 pts
330 comments
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32
How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads
knife-depot.com · AJ007 · 25 Mar 2013
560 pts
327 comments
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33
Users don't like social login
identity.mozilla.com · AndrewDucker · 20 Mar 2013
553 pts
229 comments
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34
Benefits matter, or why I won't work for your Y Combinator startup
mhalligan.com · angryasian · 20 Mar 2013
550 pts
353 comments
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37
Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
blog.mozilla.org · metajack · 27 Mar 2013
504 pts
214 comments
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38
Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually
playground.webflow.com · callmevlad · 20 Mar 2013
503 pts
132 comments
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39
What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you
noisebridge.net · squeed · 21 Mar 2013
497 pts
151 comments
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40
The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
unretrofied.com · Gromble · 1 Mar 2013
490 pts
158 comments
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43
Establishing secure connection
wellsoffice.wellsfargo.com · eloisius · 1 Mar 2013
472 pts
149 comments
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45
Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
paulrouget · 5 Mar 2013
470 pts
347 comments
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46
A scientific accident that could change the world
io9.com · roachsocal · 24 Mar 2013
464 pts
104 comments
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47
What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
hackingdistributed.com · hoonose · 26 Mar 2013
463 pts
272 comments
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48
I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
qisine · 17 Mar 2013
455 pts
245 comments
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49
O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul
perceptualedge.com · perlgeek · 12 Mar 2013
440 pts
165 comments
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50
Web Framework Benchmarks
techempower.com · pfalls · 28 Mar 2013
438 pts
396 comments
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51
Show HN: Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)
clerky.com · swampthing · 11 Mar 2013
424 pts
179 comments
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52
We'll Be Circling Back
paulgraham.com · craigkerstiens · 13 Mar 2013
422 pts
159 comments
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53
Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
blog.newsblur.com · conesus · 18 Mar 2013
422 pts
141 comments
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54
Dashing - A dashboard framework
shopify.github.com · thehodge · 27 Mar 2013
419 pts
84 comments
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55
The Apprentice Programmer
tobi.lutke.com · seubert · 3 Mar 2013
408 pts
146 comments
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56
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented
techcrunch.com · soupboy · 28 Mar 2013
408 pts
145 comments
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57
Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
eevblog.com · Breakthrough · 19 Mar 2013
405 pts
190 comments
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58
What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
spectrum.ieee.org · twentysix · 3 Mar 2013
404 pts
117 comments
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59
LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI
github.com · bencevans · 6 Mar 2013
403 pts
353 comments
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60
Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
docker.io · shykes · 26 Mar 2013
403 pts
76 comments
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