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Stories from March 4, 2012
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1.GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. (chrisacky.posterous.com)
590 points by chrisacky on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
2."Egor, stop hacking Github" (homakov.blogspot.com)
446 points by llambda on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
3.How github was hacked (homakov.blogspot.com)
348 points by bluemoon on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
4. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 491 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account? (homakov.blogspot.com)
329 points by VuongN on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
5.Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program (inventwithpython.com)
316 points by jemeshsu on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
6.How I built a Hacker News mobile web app (cheeaun.com)
308 points by bearwithclaws on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
7. A CTO Killed A $150K SaaS Deal In A Week With Claude ()
44 points by gtl4094 93 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad (andrewoneverything.com)
250 points by sendos on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
8.Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (washingtonpost.com)
241 points by Flemlord on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
9.Facebook uses bgsound to see if you have opened an email (plus.google.com)
239 points by newman314 on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
10. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me. (jgc.org)
190 points by jgrahamc on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
11.Torvalds: More bitwise tricks (plus.google.com)
183 points by SkyMarshal on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
12.TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 (irc.gs)
178 points by JonnieCache on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
13. The Leipzig judge who acquitted an innocent Jew straight into the Gestapo (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 212 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (lesswrong.com)
160 points by astrofinch on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
14.Toys (jsomers.net)
142 points by bootload on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
15.Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation (github.com/blog)
134 points by yuvadam on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
16. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Airship Tails (fraser.name)
122 points by ColinWright on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
17.How PyPy works (stackoverflow.com)
108 points by motiejus on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
18.Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days (theatlantic.com)
105 points by krambs on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
19. Why a 1942 Pentagon Took 491 Days, a 2022 Bus Lane Took 7,600 (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 254 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting (stackoverflow.com)
101 points by ksetyadi on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
20.Mezzanine, a Django powered CMS, reaches 1.0 (groups.google.com)
97 points by stephen_mcd on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion (sourcetreeapp.com)
96 points by DanielRibeiro on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
22. A $3 billion token sale that was actually $110 million (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 334 days ago | hide | 88 comments
22.API Design is UI for Developers (shkspr.mobi)
96 points by mmahemoff on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
23.Rails Commit: Whitelist all attribute assignment by default (github.com/rails)
95 points by ricksta on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
24.Advanced Google Analytics for Startups (seomoz.org)
88 points by diwank on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
25. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.One man's quest to purge horrific pictures from his Google results (arstechnica.com)
87 points by morsch on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.A Patient with Asthma Seeks Medical Advice in 1828, 1928, and 2012 (nejm.org)
79 points by tokenadult on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.Your ideas are shit. Make them anyway. (graygenesis.com)
76 points by graygenesis on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
28. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Naveen is Leaving Foursquare (naveenium.com)
66 points by uptown on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
29.Be Successful First Thing in the Morning (dextronet.com)
63 points by jirinovotny on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.The extent of the known Universe [video] (haydenplanetarium.org)
63 points by neya on March 4, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
31. One Year, Sixty Scientists, and a Contrarian Verdict on Academia (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 603 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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