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Top of Month - Mar 2012

1. Show HN: This up votes itself
   (23 Mar 2012 | 3531 points | Comments)

2. $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
   (6 Mar 2012 | 1637 points | Comments)

3. "Lighten up"
   (21 Mar 2012 | 1371 points | Comments)

4. DuckDuckGo is blowing up
   (29 Mar 2012 | 1221 points | Comments)

5. Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
   (1 Mar 2012 | 1154 points | Comments)

6. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
   (10 Mar 2012 | 1032 points | Comments)

7. Why I Left Google
   (13 Mar 2012 | 947 points | Comments)

8. I am very real
   (30 Mar 2012 | 943 points | Comments)

9. Wind Map
   (28 Mar 2012 | 909 points | Comments)

10. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
    (14 Mar 2012 | 896 points | Comments)

11. Codename: Obtvse
    (23 Mar 2012 | 889 points | Comments)

12. TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
    (8 Mar 2012 | 745 points | Comments)

13. There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
    (5 Mar 2012 | 732 points | Comments)

14. A Woman’s Story
    (29 Mar 2012 | 716 points | Comments)

15. Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
    (6 Mar 2012 | 711 points | Comments)

16. There's no speed limit (2009)
    (27 Mar 2012 | 699 points | Comments)

17. Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees
    (1 Mar 2012 | 694 points | Comments)

18. Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20
    (30 Mar 2012 | 692 points | Comments)

19. New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea
    (13 Mar 2012 | 687 points | Comments)

20. Time.is
    (11 Mar 2012 | 661 points | Comments)

21. Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
    (4 Mar 2012 | 655 points | Comments)

22. How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies
    (7 Mar 2012 | 650 points | Comments)

23. Eight years today
    (10 Mar 2012 | 639 points | Comments)

24. Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request
    (26 Mar 2012 | 630 points | Comments)

25. The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men
    (29 Mar 2012 | 629 points | Comments)

26. A violently true depiction of what war really is
    (2 Mar 2012 | 627 points | Comments)

27. Give it five minutes
    (1 Mar 2012 | 620 points | Comments)

28. Posterous acquired by Twitter
    (12 Mar 2012 | 612 points | Comments)

29. GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.
    (4 Mar 2012 | 590 points | Comments)

30. Go version 1 is released
    (28 Mar 2012 | 582 points | Comments)

31. Please do not take down the Sality botnet
    (28 Mar 2012 | 575 points | Comments)

32. This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"
    (16 Mar 2012 | 564 points | Comments)

33. Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%
    (20 Mar 2012 | 561 points | Comments)

34. Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
    (23 Mar 2012 | 556 points | Comments)

35. Defining Property
    (12 Mar 2012 | 551 points | Comments)

36. Where’s _why?
    (15 Mar 2012 | 548 points | Comments)

37. How Y Combinator Started
    (15 Mar 2012 | 542 points | Comments)

38. Yahoo Crosses The Line
    (13 Mar 2012 | 525 points | Comments)

39. No way I am calling you for a price
    (15 Mar 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

40. Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot
    (28 Mar 2012 | 505 points | Comments)

41. 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
    (26 Mar 2012 | 504 points | Comments)

42. Paypal Does it Again
    (12 Mar 2012 | 486 points | Comments)

43. Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
    (9 Mar 2012 | 478 points | Comments)

44. Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?
    (18 Mar 2012 | 476 points | Comments)

45. Show HN: A Way To Hack HN's Karma
    (23 Mar 2012 | 472 points | Comments)

46. OSX For Hackers
    (31 Mar 2012 | 469 points | Comments)

47. Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
    (27 Mar 2012 | 468 points | Comments)

48. Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels
    (13 Mar 2012 | 464 points | Comments)

49. 'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
    (24 Mar 2012 | 464 points | Comments)

50. A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
    (12 Mar 2012 | 463 points | Comments)

51. From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)
    (20 Mar 2012 | 459 points | Comments)

52. Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
    (31 Mar 2012 | 455 points | Comments)

53. Viral Video About Body Scanners
    (8 Mar 2012 | 448 points | Comments)

54. Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing
    (3 Mar 2012 | 447 points | Comments)

55. "Egor, stop hacking Github"
    (4 Mar 2012 | 446 points | Comments)

56. Pinterest, We Have a Problem
    (7 Mar 2012 | 446 points | Comments)

57. What HN users don't mean to be
    (3 Mar 2012 | 442 points | Comments)

58. A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
    (26 Mar 2012 | 436 points | Comments)

59. Advice From An Old Programmer
    (8 Mar 2012 | 429 points | Comments)

60. From MIT, a cure for all viruses?
    (29 Mar 2012 | 426 points | Comments)

61. The universe is big. This big.
    (26 Mar 2012 | 422 points | Comments)

62. SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork
    (30 Mar 2012 | 417 points | Comments)

63. Writing and Speaking
    (18 Mar 2012 | 415 points | Comments)

64. "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
    (26 Mar 2012 | 408 points | Comments)

65. Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
    (5 Mar 2012 | 406 points | Comments)

66. A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
    (7 Mar 2012 | 402 points | Comments)

67. Batman's Real Story
    (29 Mar 2012 | 400 points | Comments)

68. After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
    (13 Mar 2012 | 399 points | Comments)

69. Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You
    (22 Mar 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

70. Paper
    (29 Mar 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

71. Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later
    (29 Mar 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

72. The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists
    (16 Mar 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

73. Time Zones
    (21 Mar 2012 | 386 points | Comments)

74. Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
    (12 Mar 2012 | 384 points | Comments)

75. The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
    (25 Mar 2012 | 383 points | Comments)

76. Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5
    (20 Mar 2012 | 380 points | Comments)

77. Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot
    (21 Mar 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

78. Stop writing classes...
    (17 Mar 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

79. OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple
    (8 Mar 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

80. Kevin Rose Will Join Google
    (15 Mar 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

81. Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'
    (8 Mar 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

82. Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
    (2 Mar 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

83. Legit. Git for humans
    (25 Mar 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

84. Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings
    (21 Mar 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

85. Django 1.4 final released
    (23 Mar 2012 | 359 points | Comments)

86. Militarizing your backyard with Python, Arduino, and computer vision.
    (15 Mar 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

87. Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
    (8 Mar 2012 | 352 points | Comments)

88. How github was hacked
    (4 Mar 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

89. A Pinterest spammer tells all
    (27 Mar 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

90. Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu
    (28 Mar 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

91. Hidden gems in Mac OS X
    (10 Mar 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

92. Fluid windows
    (19 Mar 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

93. MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons
    (23 Mar 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

94. Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
    (20 Mar 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

95. Turning down Zynga: Why I opted out of the $210M Omgpop buy
    (27 Mar 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

96. Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era
    (19 Mar 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

97. Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
    (10 Mar 2012 | 334 points | Comments)

98. Square Register
    (5 Mar 2012 | 331 points | Comments)

99. Redis persistence demystified
    (26 Mar 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

100. Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?
     (4 Mar 2012 | 329 points | Comments)