top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-07-27

Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned

http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/06/violated-travelers-lost-faith-difficult.html

15 years ago

952 upvotes – 380 comments

Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8

15 years ago

546 upvotes – 130 comments

The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-airbnb-as-users-home-is-utterly-trashed/

15 years ago

432 upvotes – 226 comments

Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-steve-yegge.html

15 years ago

340 upvotes – 92 comments

Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents

http://www.dailytech.com/Judge+Finds+Apple+in+Violation+of+HTCs+Newly+Acquired+Patents/article22275.htm

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 132 comments

This is why your newspaper is dying

http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_this_is_why_your_newspaper_is_dying/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 55 comments

LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/07/leveldb-fast-persistent-key-value-store.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

LulzSec's 'Topiary' arrested

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/27/suspected-hacker-arrested-in-shetland-islands/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 107 comments

The $300 Million Button

http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 30 comments

Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/dropbox-leases-giant-new-sf-office-plans-to-grow-to-400-employees/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 61 comments

The world’s biggest hedge fund, run like a cult

http://nymag.com/news/business/wallstreet/ray-dalio-2011-4/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Why we don't need a brain

http://blog.ketyov.com/2011/03/why-we-dont-need-brain.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 21 comments

Html2canvas - Webpages Screenshots with JavaScript

http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/screenshots.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/mit-webcam-swartz/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.

http://adeel.github.com/pump/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91234-google-plays-the-closed-open-game-with-its-latest-chrome-music-video

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments

Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/bitcoin-befuddles-customs-agents-thwarting-seattle-visit-digital-currency-guru

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 66 comments

MS-DOS is 30 years old today

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/91202-ms-dos-is-30-years-old-today

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Kondoot - Watch LIVE a day in the life of a startup

http://kondoot.com/kondoot

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/op_payback/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 64 comments
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