top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-19

Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217115-20110719-schwartz.html

15 years ago

603 upvotes – 313 comments

Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight

http://www.fluentin3months.com/life-lessons/

15 years ago

340 upvotes – 115 comments

If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan

http://usersinhell.com/dropbox-github-pricing/

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 133 comments

Google+ for iOS is out

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 113 comments

Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.

http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/iu0f7/every_programmer_should_read_the_source_code_t/

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love

http://tomorrow.do/

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/93983/why-doesnt-every-company-buy-developers-the-best-hardware/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 220 comments

Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU implementations of echo.c

https://gist.github.com/1091803

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

Bash on Balls: an MVC web framework for Bash, powered by netcat

http://github.com/jayferd/balls

15 years ago

★ 869 Shell MIT
157 upvotes – 36 comments

JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others comment

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptisAssemblyLanguagefortheWebPart2MadnessorjustInsanity.aspx

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: A Bitcoin casino with 23 games.

https://strikesapphire.com

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 72 comments

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 137 comments

Google In-App Payments for the web

https://checkout.google.com/inapppayments/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 44 comments

Ewww, You Use PHP?

http://blog.mailchimp.com/ewww-you-use-php/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 163 comments

How does Google pay 2.4%?

http://cameronkeng.com/hn-how-do-i-pull-a-google/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 79 comments

OOP in Bash

http://lab.madscience.nl/oo.sh.txt

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

The Netflix Simian Army

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

Elementary OS

http://www.elementaryos.org/discover

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Girls sweep at Google Science Fair

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19google.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 108 comments

If History is any Guide, You’ve Got Two Years

http://blog.thomvest.com/youhavetwoyears/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey?

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/18/who-holds-the-copyri.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 74 comments

I Broke Justin.tv

http://blog.socialcam.com/i-broke-justintv

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/technology/google-spending-millions-to-find-the-next-google.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Things you should know when interviewing for a programming job

http://www.crossbrowser.net/479/things-you-should-know-when-interviewing-for-a-programming-job/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Questions from 'My experience as a Recruiter on Hacker News'

http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/questions-from-my-experience-as.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2780307

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

A lesson in timing attacks

http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/?

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/us/19casey.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

After almost 20 years, math problem falls

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-years-math-problem-falls.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Internet Activist Charged With Data Theft

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Epic Marketplace caught stealing history by Stanford Security Lab

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6695

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Choosing a bad password, the Rebekah Wade way.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/07/choosing-bad-password.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

Forgotten C: The comma operator

http://mindtribe.com/2011/07/forgotten-c-the-comma-operator/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

Former Reddit Director & Harvard Fellow Charged With Hacking MIT Computer

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/19/reddit-cofounder-harvard-fellow-charged-with-hacking-mit-computer/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Forget Acquisitions: Apple control the Supply Lines

http://alexblom.com/blog/2011/07/forget-acquisitions-apple-control-the-supply-lines/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

Hyperarchy: Democracy for the Digital Era

http://blog.hyperarchy.com/2011/07/19/hyperarchy-democracy-for-the-digital-era.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

The WebSocket protocol "Last Call"

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

I hate computers. But I love what you can do with them.

http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/i-hate-computers-but-i-love-what-you-can-do-with-them/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Staircar: Redis-powered notifications

http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/7819252942/staircar-redis-powered-notifications

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Linux 3.0 Release Delayed

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet for mankind

http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/72536602/reinventing-the-toilet-for-safe-and-affordable-sanitation.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 34 comments

Learn the MVVM pattern and knockout.js quickly with in-browser coding exercises

http://learn.knockoutjs.com/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Google’s official URL shortcut just for Google websites.

http://g.co/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

Parallel script loading for improved page load

http://headjs.com/#theory

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments
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