top 50% 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

Depixelizing Pixel Art

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

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 33 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

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

AVM violating license of the Linux kernel

http://gpl-violations.org/news/20110620-avm-cybits.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

U.S. Government Wants to Double Prison Sentences for Hackers

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/there_are_no_lulz_in_prison_us_gov_seeks_longer_pr.php

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

iPhone 4-digit passcodes more secure when containing only 3 unique digits

http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2011/01/27/game-theory-and-probability-of-iphone-passwords/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Benchmark: C++ vs C#

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-platform/BenchmarkCppVsDotNet.aspx

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

US nuke regulators weaken safety rules to keep old reactors running

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/ap_on_re_us/us_aging_nukes_part1

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Visualizing Hacker News

http://hnmood.com/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming wikibook”

http://www.r-statistics.com/2011/06/calling-r-lovers-and-bloggers-to-work-together-on-the-r-programming-wikibook/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Anonymity has real value, both in comments and elsewhere

http://gigaom.com/2011/06/20/anonymity-has-real-value-both-in-comments-and-elsewhere/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Design patterns aren't

http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Lulzsec Declares 'Operation Anti-Security'

http://pastebin.com/9KyA0E5v

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

The Little Book on CoffeeScript

http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript?

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

The 10:10 code - global position in ten characters

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/1010-code.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

http://blog.asmartbear.com/how-value-company-1.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X

http://raskinformac.com

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Please Steal My Startup Idea

http://techiferous.com/2011/06/please-steal-my-startup-idea

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

The New Heroku, Part 1 of 4: The Process Model & Procfile

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/6/20/the_new_heroku_1_process_model_procfile/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

First Month on the Android Market

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/2011/05/first-month-on-the-android-market/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Building a Devops team

http://agilesysadmin.net/building-a-devops-team

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

How US companies can avoid paying taxes (video)

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/06/19/business/100000000870844/inside-the-accountants-playbook.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

http://mysugr.com/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

Adobe Updates Flash Builder and Flex to Support Building iOS Applications

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/06/build-mobile-apps-for-android-devices-blackberry-playbook-iphone-and-ipad-today.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments

Now That Everyone Wants to Be a Geek, Lawyers Have Been Called

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304453304576391602625560250.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Top

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 33 comments
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