top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-06-20

I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0

15 years ago

664 upvotes – 312 comments

DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble

http://dontbubble.us/

15 years ago

548 upvotes – 214 comments

Why I've built an alternative to Github

http://blog.codeplane.com/why-ive-built-an-alternative-to-github.html

15 years ago

473 upvotes – 192 comments

Fish don't know they're in water

http://sivers.org/fish

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 109 comments

New security issue at Dropbox

http://pastebin.com/yBKwDY6T

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 109 comments

Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33864

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 142 comments

ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

http://www.icann.org/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 136 comments

Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=821

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 109 comments

Coding Horror: Performance is a Feature

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-feature.html

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 17 comments

Depixelizing Pixel Art

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/index.html

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 33 comments

You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.

http://mebassett.blogspot.com/2011/06/you-dont-understand-something-until-you.html

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 71 comments

Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/introducing-non-admin-chrome-frame.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 23 comments

The “walled garden” becomes a prison for reality

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3331?

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Bank robber demands $1 from teller in order to get free healthcare in prison

http://www.gastongazette.com/news/bank-58397-richard-hailed.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 89 comments

Consumers Don't Want Tablets, They Want iPads

http://allthingsd.com/20110620/consumers-dont-want-tablets-they-want-ipads/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 134 comments

Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"

http://catonmat.net/blog/awk-book/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

http://www.leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Great People Are Overrated

http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2011/06/great_people_are_overrated.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 95 comments

Uber drops fares for SF Taxi strike

http://blog.uber.com/2011/06/20/uber-drops-fares-50-for-sf-taxi-strike/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

Hammocks Make Sleep Easier, Deeper

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/06/20/137300311/why-hammocks-make-sleep-easier-deeper?sc=tw

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments
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