top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-26

Webdesigners: please make text readable

http://contrastrebellion.com/

15 years ago

467 upvotes – 106 comments

When Patents Attack

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 131 comments

Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php

15 years ago

350 upvotes – 127 comments

Humble Bundle #3 is Live

http://www.humblebundle.com/#3

15 years ago

336 upvotes – 122 comments

What happened to all the female developers?

http://blog.fogcreek.com/girls-go-geek-again/

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 272 comments

NYT Skimmer

http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/?pagewanted=all#/Top+News

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 143 comments

John Resig uses this

http://john.resig.usesthis.com/

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 128 comments

When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you

http://kkovacs.eu/teamwork-ground-rules

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything

http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 52 comments

Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 41 comments

Call Someone Who Cares

http://www.call-someone-who-cares.com/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

Mozilla is building an operating system

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 85 comments

The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Patents.

http://www.w3.org/2010/12/cfpa

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 33 comments

Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-i-raised-money-for-browserling/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 52 comments

Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C

http://www.exploringbinary.com/ten-ways-to-check-if-an-integer-is-a-power-of-two-in-c/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 73 comments

Ignored disabled man builds his own damn elevator

http://hackaday.com/2011/07/25/ignored-disabled-man-builds-his-own-damn-elevator/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Steve Jobs Couldn’t Find a Job Today

http://blogs.forbes.com/adamhartung/2011/02/18/why-steve-jobs-couldnt-find-a-job/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/sun-ceo-explicitly-endorsed-javas-use-in-android-what-do-you-say-now-oracle/9285

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

http://www.wil.lt

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Twilio Client Lets Developers Integrate VoIP Calling Into Any Application

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/twilio-client-lets-developers-integrate-voip-calling-into-any-application/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation

http://hep.physics.utoronto.ca/BerndStelzer/higgs/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Debteye (YC S11) Wants To Be Your (Much Cheaper) Credit Counselor

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/yc-funded-debteye-wants-to-be-your-much-cheaper-credit-counselor/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/22/the-html5-boom-is-coming-fast/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Postgres Now the Default Database for Mac OS X Server

http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2011.html#July_25_2011

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Who owns America? Hint: It's not China

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/21/who-owns-america-hint-its-not-china/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 71 comments

PragProg CoffeeScript Book Released

http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?

http://www.slate.com/id/2299256/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 85 comments

Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor using HTML5

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1241383920/open-source-programmers-text-editor-using-canvas-a

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 52 comments

University Of Calgary Refusing To Pay Access Copyright Any More

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110724/01464615221/university-calgary-refusing-to-pay-access-copyright-any-more.shtml

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Querying Riak Just Got Easier: Introducing Secondary Indices

http://www.slideshare.net/rklophaus/querying-riak-just-got-easier-introducing-secondary-indices

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

The M in MVC: Why Models are Misunderstood and Unappreciated

http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2008/12/the-m-in-mvc-why-models-are-misunderstood-and-unappreciated/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Construction

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/173537-house-dems-want-analysis-of-laying-fiber-optic-cable-along-highways

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Bing Becomes a Distraction for Microsoft

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/business/bing-becomes-a-costly-distraction-for-microsoft-breakingviews.html?src=rechp

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

Most people have no idea what the word hacker means

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/26/hacked-to-death-how-journalists-are-ruining-the-word-hacker/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Hook.io - a full featured i/o framework for node.js which aims to take on erlang

http://hook.io

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Data Warehousing 101

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/452307/f691b8557f05ab8e/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

The Campaign For Real Monopoly

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/25/campaign-for-real-monopoly

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments

How To Stay In Shape While Traveling

http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/25/how-to-stay-in-shape-while-traveling

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Bans Adwords use for Facebook

http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/07/26/google-bans-adwords-use-for-facebook/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

Anonymous targets Norway killer’s manifesto

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/anonymous-targets-norway-killers-manifesto/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 82 comments

One in five American men don't work: Where's the outrage?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/25/unemployment-job-skills-training/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 104 comments

Mac OS X Lion Login Passwords Extracted With Ease

http://www.securityweek.com/mac-os-x-lion-login-passwords-extracted-ease

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Tiny Australian startup gets 250,000 downloads of its app in just 4 days

http://discovr.info/2011/07/250k-downloads-of-discovr-apps-in-the-last-4-days/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Twilio Client - New VOIP API for Javascript, Android and iOS Apps

http://www.twilio.com/api/client/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Fragmented sleep 'harms memory'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14279123

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

The Trouble with Erlang (or Erlang is a ghetto)

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/07/trouble-with-erlang-or-erlang-is-ghetto.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Practical Foundations of Mathematics

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pt/Practical_Foundations/html/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Jsfx; js sound effect generator

http://www.egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Stephen Elop Costs Nokia 10 Million Dollars of Lost Profit Every Day

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/07/stephen-elop-costs-nokia-10-million-dollars-more-of-lost-profit-every-day-he-stays-with-nokia.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Google On The Nortel Loss, Patents As Government-Granted Monopolies

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/google-patent-fight/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 23 comments

Mozilla building mobile OS to battle Chrome

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20083238-12/mozilla-building-mobile-os-to-battle-chrome/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

Bradley Horowitz on Google+ naming policy

https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments

Metrics, Metrics Everywhere [video]

http://pivotallabs.com/talks/139-metrics-metrics-everywhere

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 6 comments
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