Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Thursday Mar 08, 2012

0.965 A Venture Capitalist Explains Why There Are So Few Blacks In Silicon Valley comments

0.760 Call for donations for Software Transactional Memory comments

0.740 Yobongo, Which Launched SXSW, to be Acquired and Shut Down comments

0.733 Women programmers make 95 cents to the dollar men earn comments

0.720 Breaking (Up) Bad: When co-founders bail out comments

0.666 The death of (traditional) consoles is already under way comments

0.650 ICANN thought paper on domain seizures and takedowns comments

0.631 Technology and Filmmaking: An Interview With Roger Sewhcomar comments

0.614 Noty - a jquery notification plugin comments

0.603 Windows 8 Consumer Preview Part 2 - The Pain Points comments

0.602 Macros No More In Visual Studio 11 comments

0.590 It Would Be A Huge Boost To The Economy If Women Would Start Inventing Things comments

0.587 Iso Block Building comments

0.560 Badgeless 2012, SXSW (Free) for the rest of us comments

0.547 TURN DRAB DATA INTO SEXY CHARTS comments

0.545 Virtual currencies and roach motels comments

0.545 Oh Look, Someone Just Made CrunchBase Incredibly Useful comments

0.524 Form Wizards in Struts2 comments

0.520 Enabling broadcast and multicast in the Amazon EC2 network comments

0.515 Government use of Ubuntu comments

0.510 Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer’s Priorities comments

0.502 House to pass bipartisan bill aimed at start-ups comments

0.502 Chat Startup Yobongo Gets Acq-Hired By Mixbook comments

0.500 Taming the Forum Tiger comments

0.477 Amateur Rocketeer Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet comments

0.467 Yobongo aquired by Mixbook comments

0.462 All Tech Hubs and incubators in Africa comments

0.461 The SendHub API: Heroku for Twilio comments

0.438 Inside the clone factory: The story of Germany’s Samwer brothers comments

0.422 Sequoia Capital Invests $10 Million in Songkick comments

0.383 Medical technology startups face FDA approval challenges comments

0.362 Scoot Networks: the Zipcar for electric scooters comments

0.355 Should Rails Remove the Scaffold Generator? comments

0.345 Meet Clover, possible savior of lost mobile transactions comments

0.333 The Cost of Cracking comments

0.333 Yobongo Acquired by Mixbook comments

0.321 Visual Computing Still Decades from Computational Apex comments

0.303 Facebook hasn’t fixed Friend Finder, says German group comments

0.299 We’ve been acquired comments

0.294 How much actual money is there in the world? comments

0.281 Apple’s announcement and a typographic nigthmare comments

0.262 Computer Language Benchmarks Game comments

0.255 My oscar chemoinformatics parser: Please don’t break it. comments

0.184 Fake it till you make it comments

0.174 Sara Blakely on bootstrapping Spanx comments

0.160 How do you decide who to follow on Twitter? comments

0.159 FAA wants public feedback on unmanned aircraft test sites comments

0.155 Making your HTML5 animations a little smoother. comments

0.155 Porsche design challenge with co.design - $20k for the best 911 inspired design comments

0.149 Facebook announces Interest Lists comments

0.099 Airbnb’s first pitch deck comments

0.089 Yobongo Acquired by Mixbook for Mobile Know-How comments

0.072 Labor Dept. Asks Nuclear Guardians for Help Keeping Jobs Data Secret comments

0.042 Seven trends to help you predict iPad and iPhone camera specs comments

0.027 Apple hands iPad rivals an opportunity, but who will take it? comments

0.024 AT&T faking 4G on iPhones in New York City comments

0.013 Temp Root Remover Lets Users Run Anti Root Apps On There Rooted Phone comments

0.011 Songkick Secures Sequoia’s First Ever UK Investment with a $10M B Round comments

0.002 Show HN my weekend project: random quotes, jokes, and adages comments