top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-07-22

Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.

http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen

15 years ago

923 upvotes – 76 comments

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

442 upvotes – 144 comments

EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/ebay-patents-10-click-checkout.html

15 years ago

337 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/google-deletes-last-7-years-of-users-digital-life-shrugs.html

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 235 comments

What everyone should know about the human eye

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/what-everyone-should-know-about-the-human-eye/

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 47 comments

NASA's Successful Quantifying of Comedy Timing (By Penn Jillette and Teller)

http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-quantifying-of-comedy-timing-by-penn

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 31 comments

On Succeeding Steve Jobs

http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/succeeding_steve_jobs

15 years ago

229 upvotes – 102 comments

NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/nyu-prof-vows-never-to-probe-cheating-again%E2%80%94and-faces-a-backlash/32351

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 110 comments

Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 88 comments

Linux 3.0 release

http://lwn.net/Articles/452531/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 17 comments

Explosion in central Oslo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 75 comments

Urbanisation in Minecraft

http://crafthub.net/2011/07/22/urbanisation-in-minecraft/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 55 comments

How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/how-38-monks-took-on-the-funeral-cartel-and-won/242336/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Stop hating Java

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/stop-hating-java.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 151 comments

Agility.js - Javascript MVC for the "write less, do more" programmer

http://agilityjs.com

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Researchers create tattoo that tracks sodium and glucose via iPhone

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/22/northeastern-creates-tattoo-that-tracks-sodium-and-glucose-via-an-iphone/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Ad Innovation Conference, September 14 at YC

http://adinnovationconference.com/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Wikipedia: Making of Doom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_of_Doom#Programming

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Anonymous Hacks NATO, Steals GB Of Data

http://www.crn.com/news/security/231002347/anonymous-hacks-nato-steals-gb-of-data.htm

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/a-bomb-in-oslo-what-google-lost-by-ending-real-time-search/242357/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments
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