top 50% 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

Serial cable for iPod approved by Apple

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MSRP01&Click=85531&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Maker+Shed+Jul+21+2011&utm_content=Maker+Shed+Jul+21+2011+CID_5d19bd49d4c9737785f05cd1d70cd693&utm_source=Email+Campaign&utm_term=cable

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 66 comments

An amazing crossword puzzle

http://kottke.org/11/07/an-amazing-crossword-puzzle

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Go for App Engine is now generally available

http://blog.golang.org/2011/07/go-for-app-engine-is-now-generally.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Does the infamous "Happy Birthday to You" copyright hold up to scrutiny?

http://www.slate.com/id/2298271/pagenum/all

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Race to Moon by Private Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/science/space/22moon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

JavaScript Creator Says the Language Wasn't Just Dumb Luck

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/07/javascript-was-no-accident.php

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Fusker - a NodeJS security system that attacks back

https://github.com/wearefractal/fusker

15 years ago

★ 324 CoffeeScript MIT
71 upvotes – 31 comments

How To Manage Geeks

http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Geeks

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Head JS Loads JavaScript Files Like Images Without Blocking the Page

http://headjs.com/#

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Graph: How long it took Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to reach 10 million users

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/graph-how-long-it-took-facebook-twitter-and-google-to-reach-10-million-users/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 37 comments

The Rise of Google+: Email is Social’s Secret Weapon

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/22/the-fall-of-aol-bebo-and-the-rise-of-google-email-is-social-dummies/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Lion removes Java?

http://lookfirst.com/2011/07/lion-removes-java.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

AP Finally Learns that You Can Link to Other Sites on the Internet

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110720/15543515185/ap-finally-learns-that-internet-you-can-link-to-other-sites.shtml

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics

http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

DoD offers up tiny, secure Linux distro

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/u-s-dept-of-defense-offers-up-tiny-secure-linux-distribution-20110722/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Y Combinator Taps Into Its Alumni Network, Announces Ad Innovation Conference

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/y-combinator-taps-into-its-alumni-network-announces-ad-innovation-conference/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 6 comments

Judge criticizes Google and Oracle at hearing

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-oracle-google-lawsuit-idUSTRE76K7U820110721

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Two special startup types: the Twitter and the Hoverboard

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/07/a-twitter-a-hoverboard-or-something-in-between/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Use pythonbrew to manage multiple python installations

https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew

15 years ago

★ 1.4k Go MIT
51 upvotes – 14 comments
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