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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.

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Google Reader shutting down googleblog.blogspot.com · knurdle · 13 Mar 2013
2k pts 695 comments
2
Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown bjk5.com · df07 · 6 Mar 2013
1.7k pts 191 comments
3
The PyCon Incident pastebin.com · afraidofadria · 20 Mar 2013
1.1k pts 986 comments
4
Diamonds Are Bullshit blog.priceonomics.com · danielpal · 19 Mar 2013
1.1k pts 734 comments
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Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost amandablumwords.wordpress.com · hexis · 21 Mar 2013
1k pts 367 comments
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How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server plusbryan.com · solfox · 4 Mar 2013
960 pts 341 comments
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Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort gkoberger.github.com · gkoberger · 18 Mar 2013
948 pts 198 comments
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Why I'm switching back to Firefox campaul.net · dave1010uk · 11 Mar 2013
928 pts 423 comments
9
Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit designmodo.github.com · jamesbritt · 4 Mar 2013
872 pts 191 comments
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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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The DDoS that almost broke the Internet blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 27 Mar 2013
830 pts 171 comments
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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Procrastination is Not Laziness thoughtcatalog.com · alanfalcon · 15 Mar 2013
771 pts 173 comments
14
White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” petitions.whitehouse.gov · sinak · 4 Mar 2013
752 pts 274 comments
15
What really happened at PyCon 2013 peak5390.wordpress.com · LeafStorm · 22 Mar 2013
746 pts 104 comments
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Unfit for work apps.npr.org · ilamont · 22 Mar 2013
738 pts 447 comments
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Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js usablica.github.com · afshinmeh · 15 Mar 2013
716 pts 154 comments
18
Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues amazon.com · mrcharles · 7 Mar 2013
708 pts 434 comments
19
I Bought A Firetruck geckodesigns.kinja.com · amartya916 · 24 Mar 2013
708 pts 273 comments
20
Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant automatic.com · gresrun · 12 Mar 2013
690 pts 295 comments
21
How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go blog.iron.io · treeder · 12 Mar 2013
688 pts 495 comments
22
Goodbye, Malcolm djangoproject.com · LeafStorm · 19 Mar 2013
671 pts 39 comments
23
This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again vice.com · Aco- · 13 Mar 2013
656 pts 502 comments
24
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them wired.com · TDL · 15 Mar 2013
646 pts 172 comments
25
A Note from one of Cloudflare's upstream providers cluepon.net · jauer · 28 Mar 2013
644 pts 87 comments
26
Unix tricks mmb.pcb.ub.es · shawndumas · 7 Mar 2013
623 pts 224 comments
27
Future of Firefox DevTools paulrouget.com · paulrouget · 18 Mar 2013
612 pts 165 comments
28
Hacker News Parody Thread bradconte.com · B-Con · 5 Mar 2013
589 pts 187 comments
29
A Difficult Situation blog.sendgrid.com · jbaudanza · 21 Mar 2013
587 pts 432 comments
30
Persona is distributed. Today. identity.mozilla.com · charlieok · 26 Mar 2013
573 pts 147 comments
31
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing propublica.org · danso · 26 Mar 2013
569 pts 330 comments
32
How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads knife-depot.com · AJ007 · 25 Mar 2013
560 pts 327 comments
33
Users don't like social login identity.mozilla.com · AndrewDucker · 20 Mar 2013
553 pts 229 comments
34
Benefits matter, or why I won't work for your Y Combinator startup mhalligan.com · angryasian · 20 Mar 2013
550 pts 353 comments
35
Why Ruby? codinghorror.com · DanielRibeiro · 22 Mar 2013
521 pts 271 comments
36
The Handshake Deal Protocol ycombinator.com · pg · 14 Mar 2013
519 pts 219 comments
37
Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web blog.mozilla.org · metajack · 27 Mar 2013
504 pts 214 comments
38
Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually playground.webflow.com · callmevlad · 20 Mar 2013
503 pts 132 comments
39
What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you noisebridge.net · squeed · 21 Mar 2013
497 pts 151 comments
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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Why I created Comic Sans connare.com · twog · 10 Mar 2013
485 pts 130 comments
42
Heroku Fucking Console github.com · eik3_de · 1 Mar 2013
472 pts 281 comments
43
Establishing secure connection wellsoffice.wellsfargo.com · eloisius · 1 Mar 2013
472 pts 149 comments
44
Official Hacker News T-Shirt teespring.com · pg · 12 Mar 2013
471 pts 313 comments
45
Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox? paulrouget · 5 Mar 2013
470 pts 347 comments
46
A scientific accident that could change the world io9.com · roachsocal · 24 Mar 2013
464 pts 104 comments
47
What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly hackingdistributed.com · hoonose · 26 Mar 2013
463 pts 272 comments
48
I'm a loser and I want to change that - now qisine · 17 Mar 2013
455 pts 245 comments
49
O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul perceptualedge.com · perlgeek · 12 Mar 2013
440 pts 165 comments
50
Web Framework Benchmarks techempower.com · pfalls · 28 Mar 2013
438 pts 396 comments
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
52
We'll Be Circling Back paulgraham.com · craigkerstiens · 13 Mar 2013
422 pts 159 comments
53
Three Months to Scale NewsBlur blog.newsblur.com · conesus · 18 Mar 2013
422 pts 141 comments
54
Dashing - A dashboard framework shopify.github.com · thehodge · 27 Mar 2013
419 pts 84 comments
55
The Apprentice Programmer tobi.lutke.com · seubert · 3 Mar 2013
408 pts 146 comments
56
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented techcrunch.com · soupboy · 28 Mar 2013
408 pts 145 comments
57
Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10 eevblog.com · Breakthrough · 19 Mar 2013
405 pts 190 comments
58
What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear spectrum.ieee.org · twentysix · 3 Mar 2013
404 pts 117 comments
59
LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI github.com · bencevans · 6 Mar 2013
403 pts 353 comments
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Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source docker.io · shykes · 26 Mar 2013
403 pts 76 comments

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