Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2010-03-16login
Stories from March 16, 2010
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined (thegcteam.com)
281 points by cullenking on March 16, 2010 | 176 comments
2.I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly (ksplice.com)
274 points by jesstess on March 16, 2010 | 38 comments
3.Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?" (gorgorat.com)
212 points by matth on March 16, 2010 | 155 comments

Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything. The software for ranking applications runs on the same server, and it is horribly inefficient (something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much). This weekend all of us were reading applications at the same time, and the system was getting so slow that I banned crawlers for a bit to buy us some margin. (Traffic from crawlers is much more expensive for us than traffic from human users, because it interacts badly with lazy item loading.) We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now.
5.Still Face experiment: What happens when a mother shows no response to a child? (youtube.com)
135 points by codexon on March 16, 2010 | 58 comments
6. Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know (37signals.com)
125 points by henning on March 16, 2010 | 35 comments
7.Why learn Graph Theory? Here are some reasons ... (andresosinski.com.ar)
97 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 16, 2010 | 28 comments
8.Benchmark of Python web servers (nichol.as)
86 points by nichol4s on March 16, 2010 | 11 comments
9.Internet Explorer 9: Platform Preview (ie.microsoft.com)
86 points by sid0 on March 16, 2010 | 80 comments
10.London-based start-up allows anyone to print their own newspaper. (bbc.co.uk)
84 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 16, 2010 | 27 comments
11.What I Have Learned About Health and Fitness (fitnessspotlight.com)
80 points by kilian on March 16, 2010 | 69 comments
12.Robot Scientist Adam makes discovery that has eluded human scientists for years. (singularityhub.com)
79 points by bkudria on March 16, 2010 | 35 comments

On one hand, Garmin probably got what they wanted. Moving a whole office from San Francisco to Kansas seems like a passive aggresive way of downsizing.

On the other hand, they probably weren't exactly expecting this reaction. And I have a feeling they aren't gonna like this. Well played ex-Garmin team, well played.

14.Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info)
75 points by l0stman on March 16, 2010 | 18 comments
15.Clojure IDEs — The Grand Tour (bestinclass.dk)
70 points by fogus on March 16, 2010 | 11 comments
16.Microsoft vs the Karate Kid (contrast.ie)
71 points by destraynor on March 16, 2010 | 30 comments
17.Why SXSW Sucks (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
68 points by AgentIcarus on March 16, 2010 | 41 comments
18.Indian courier service hires only deaf workers (springwise.com)
62 points by froggy on March 16, 2010 | 19 comments
19.Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
62 points by geekbabe on March 16, 2010 | 66 comments
20.Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (highscalability.com)
58 points by mattyb on March 16, 2010 | 12 comments
21.Interesting pricing experiment ($0.99 iPhone app changed to $350.00) (gamasutra.com)
58 points by credo on March 16, 2010 | 37 comments
22.Progress Wars (progresswars.com)
56 points by olefoo on March 16, 2010 | 18 comments

I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be!

Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!

24.Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site
55 points by ccheever on March 16, 2010 | 43 comments

That was my first thought as well. That article is found at http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... (if that's the one you were thinking of)
26.Programming languages DO have speed (andresosinski.com.ar)
50 points by Daishiman on March 16, 2010
27.Facebook.com overtakes Google.com as most visited USA domain. (markmaunder.com)
48 points by mmaunder on March 16, 2010 | 48 comments
28.FiOS vs. Cable During a Windstorm (zdziarski.com)
47 points by jzdziarski on March 16, 2010 | 13 comments
29.Is China actually bankrupt? (msn.com)
46 points by known on March 16, 2010 | 24 comments

I think we should all take a moment to thank Google for making Chrome and get all browser developers to get out of their collective ass and do something to fix their broken browsers. The amount of improvement and works going on the top 4 browsers since Chrome was released is really amazing. IE 7-8 were half-assed job to counter Firefox's popularity.

Even Firefox is getting their act together and their next release is very much inspired by chrome.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: