top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-25

Aaron Swartz v. United States

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/07/24/aaron-swartz-v-united-states/

15 years ago

304 upvotes – 159 comments

Monroe or Einstein? Instant eyesight check.

http://lifehacker.com/5823098/monroe-or-einstein-check-if-you-need-glasses-at-your-computer

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 50 comments

It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/11/135300971/it-flies-davincis-dream-comes-true

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 50 comments

Twice the height of the Empire State - massive solar tower for AZ

http://www.gizmag.com/enviromission-solar-tower-arizona-clean-energy-renewable/19287/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 127 comments

Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/07/25/veteran-developer-steve-lacey-killed-in-driving-incident/

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 143 comments

Guido van Rossum: Before Python

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-python.html

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 19 comments

Who's your SSH buddy?

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/07/whos-your-ssh-buddy.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 102 comments

50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/seo-shop-puts-50-google-1s-on-sale-for-just-999/242517/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 61 comments

Automatically fixing bugs in C programs with Genetic Algorithms

http://epr.adaptive.cs.unm.edu/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/24/airbnb-bags-112-million-in-series-b-from-andreessen-and-others/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Bitcoin is Not Anonymous

http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 53 comments

How not to handle open source feedback

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/How+not+to+handle+open+source+feedback

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

Thanks, HN Here are the vocab survey results from all your participation

http://testyourvocab.com/blog.php

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Google cares if you use your real name

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/07/25/whyGoogleCaresIfYouUseYour.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 111 comments

Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

http://blog.codegram.com/2011/7/rack-webconsole-a-rubyrails-console-inside-your-browser

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 55 comments

Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.

http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/setup-a-complete-django-server-deploy-rollback-%e2%80%93-all-in-one-powerful-script/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

Angry Birds Maker Sued for Patent Violation

http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/angry-birds-lawsuit/?WT.mc_id=obinsite

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 100 comments

Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until Exists

http://javascriptisawesome.blogspot.com/2011/07/faster-than-jquerydocumentready-wait.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Web Operations 101 For Developers

http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/7/25/web_operations_101_for_developers.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 1 comments

Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/7668a9d46a43e482

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VCs Got It Wrong

http://steveblank.com/2011/07/25/how-scientists-and-engineers-got-it-right-and-vc%e2%80%99s-got-it-wrong/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook. Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?

http://battellemedia.com/archives/2011/07/looky_here_its_me_in_an_ad_on_facebook_is_this_legal_allowed_who_knows.php

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How should I apply for U.S. jobs as a non-resident?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802151

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

The Future of Lighting

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/the-future-of-lighting.ars

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Mark Suster: One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/one-book-every-entrepreneur-and-vc-should-own/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Conference Error in Your Favor Collect $225

http://madisonruby.org/posts/2011-07-25-Conference-Error-in-Your-Favor-Collect-225

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending

http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=5811

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 73 comments

Graph and Network Analysis: Tutorial, datasets and code

http://mlg.ucd.ie/summer

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Popular Web Strategies That Don’t Work

http://uxmag.com/strategy/five-popular-web-strategies-that-dont-work

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

The nytimes they are a-changin'

http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Where unit testing fails

http://www.hmemcpy.com/blog/2011/06/where-unit-testing-fails/?utm_source=hacker-news&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=typemock-where-ut-fails

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/25/the-cost-of-patent-trolls/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

How to get started with functional programming

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/24/get-started-functional-programming/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=os_chrm_54?&node=2858603011

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: What has been your least profitable side/weekend project to date?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801014

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 63 comments

10% of a population is the tipping point for intellectual disruption

http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2902&setappvar=page(1)

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Finally, USPS.com got nice look'n'feel

https://www.usps.com/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

JavaScript Enlightenment eBook has been released

http://www.javascriptenlightenment.com

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

First Nokia, Now RIM: The Mighty Are Falling

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/rim-mighty-are-falling/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

India's Leading Export: CEOs

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2084441,00.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

O'Reilly to adopt anti-harrassment Code of Conduct for Oscon

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/sexual-harassment-at-technical.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

Browserify - write client-side javascript server-side

http://thechangelog.com/post/8061175821/browserify-write-client-side-javascript-server-side

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

Open-Source OpenRISC CPU architecture pulled into Linux 3.1

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/23/25

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Amazon removes link to Kindle store from iOS app

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook’s Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures]

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/facebook-ipad-app-pictures/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments

From Hackathon to production: building a large scale recommendation engine

http://exchange.causes.com/2011/07/causes-tech-a-recommendation-engine-that-could/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments

Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code

http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-weekend.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20729-should-we-worry-about-what-the-lhc-is-not-finding.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 39 comments

How You Can Be Creative – A Lesson from Pablo Picasso

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/how-you-can-be-creative-a-lesson-from-pablo-picasso

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 24 comments

Winklevoss twins' new Facebook lawsuit rejected by judge

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/25/facebook_wins_winklevoss_lawsuit/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 19 comments

Imagine the Apple Thunderbolt Display… without the display

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90894-imagine-the-apple-thunderbolt-display-without-the-display

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 49 comments

Timeseries data storage in MongoDB

http://www.slideshare.net/sky_jackson/time-series-data-storage-in-mongodb

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 25 comments

Domainr Command Line Script makes picking a new one easier than ever

https://github.com/talsafran/Domainr

15 years ago

★ 96 Python
39 upvotes – 11 comments

FaqMe? FaqYou

http://www.faqme.com/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 38 comments
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