top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-07-07

User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer

http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/user-testing-in-the-wild-joes-first-computer-encounter/

15 years ago

513 upvotes – 199 comments

Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhyTheAskObamaTweetWasGarbledOnScreenKnowYourUTF8UnicodeASCIIAndANSIDecodingMrPresident.aspx

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 76 comments

Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered

http://lifeisagraph.com/2011/07/04/facebook-vibes.html

15 years ago

289 upvotes – 53 comments

Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC

http://blog.l0cal.com/2011/07/07/these-companies-that-mislead-our-users/

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 77 comments

ITerm2 1.0 Released

http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 114 comments

My Summer at an Indian Call Center

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/indian-call-center-americanization

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 56 comments

Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App Store"

http://mashable.com/2011/07/07/apple-amazon-lawsuit/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 84 comments

A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/a-walk-in-the-woods-with-mark-zuckerberg/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

Realtime image processing in Python

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/07/realtime-image-processing-in-python.html

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 18 comments

"The Bug Count Also Rises"

http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 17 comments

Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 137 comments

Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/07/lean-startup-book-is-here.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+startup%2Flessons%2Flearned+%28Lessons+Learned%29&utm_content=Twitter

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 58 comments

G+ invite open again

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113882113745075873153/posts/Gbg31WL621X

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 110 comments

Hopelessly perfect: Why it’s smart to work at a no-shot startup

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/07/07/hopelessly-perfect-why-its-smart-to-work-at-a-no-shot-startup/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 33 comments

DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide

http://openpcr.org/2011/07/dna-is-now-diy-openpcr-ships-worldwide/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Why SourceForge Lost

http://usersinhell.com/why-sourceforge-lost/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Hackers to follow on G+?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737152

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Dump your fluorescents and incandescents for this amazing new LED bulb

http://www.slate.com/id/2298444/pagenum/all

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 105 comments

What's yours stays yours. - Dropbox Terms Update

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=867

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

An Intuitive Guide To Exponential Functions & e

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-guide-to-exponential-functions-e/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments
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