top 50% 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

ITerm2 1.0 Released

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

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 114 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

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

Fastest Way to Lose $50 - Our Failed Admob Experiment

http://blog.fotobookapp.com/59958087

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

Face.com's API now recognizes moods

http://developers.face.com/newsletters/july-2011-moods-and-facial-expressions/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Turntable.fm raising $5-10 M. at $40 M. Valuation

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/07/turntable-fm-and-the-siren-song-of-the-start-up-pivot/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/major-isps-agree-to-six-strikes-copyright-enforcement-plan.ars

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Brazilian-government-signs-up-to-develop-OpenOffice-and-LibreOffice-1275068.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

For The Moment, Visa And MasterCard Reopen Payments To WikiLeaks

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/07/for-the-moment-visa-and-mastercard-re-open-payments-to-wikileaks/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

YouTube Unveils Slick Experimental Redesign, Codenamed Cosmic Panda

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/07/youtube-unveils-slick-experimental-redesign-codenamed-cosmic-panda/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Learn jQuery & JavaScript for Free

http://learn.appendto.com/lessons

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Knowing 'How'

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2968-knowing-how

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

http://jonmulholland.tumblr.com/post/7336128880/7-things-google-needs-to-do-to-be-awesome

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 64 comments

What We Lose With the End of the Shuttle Program

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/six-things-we-lose-with-the-end-of-the-shuttle-program/0

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 71 comments

HN "Who's Hiring" Language, Framework, Data, & Mobile Trends

http://blog.hirelite.com/hacker-news-whos-hiring-trends

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

The Kik SDK: Build Real-Time Sharing into Your App in 10 Minutes

http://www.kik.com/blog/2011/07/the-kik-sdk/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Facebook can't match Ravelry, the social network for knitters.

http://www.slate.com/id/2298584/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Javascript AST trickery with burrito

http://substack.net/posts/eed898

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Washington Post Hacked: 1,270,000 Emails and User IDs Compromised

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/jobs/product-pages/fraud-email.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Padrino 0.10.0 Released Rubinius support, speed and much more Check it out

http://www.padrinorb.com/blog/padrino-0-10-0-routing-upgrades-rbx-and-jruby-support-and-minor-breaking-changes

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Using Haskell for the web

http://www.yesodweb.com/page/testimonials

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Why You Might Want To Consider Java And/Or Clojure For Your Next Project

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35700/Opinion_Why_You_Might_Want_To_Consider_Java_AndOr_Clojure_For_Your_Next_Project.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Exploring the Durability of IP Connections from Android Devices

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2011/07/07/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mobile-device-ip-connectivity/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Test whether any website is blocked in China in real-time

http://www.blockedinchina.net/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

CERN launches Open Hardware initiative

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR08.11E.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 0 comments

Feds visit artist behind People Staring at Computers, confiscate laptop

http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2011/07/feds-visit-artist-behind-people-staring.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 50 comments

Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps

http://saffer.posterous.com/playing-the-browser-game-for-keeps

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Street View New York 1982

http://streetview1982.com/index-street-view-panoramas-new-york-city-1982.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Always Finish

http://www.venturebent.com/2011/07/always-finish/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Byte Me: Why you need to be *very* careful when choosing co-founders

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2011-07-07/news/secureaxis-kalishman-elbring-network-security/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook trapped in MySQL 'fate worse than death'

http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Our HTML5 Game Engine, with live demo

http://flax.ie/flax-html5-game-engine-development-diary-part-10-2/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 20 comments

If you build it, they will not come; how to avoid launch failure

http://tbbuck.com/if-you-build-it-they-will-not-come/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments
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