top 50% 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

World's Thinnest House is only 4 ft wide

http://www.archdaily.com/152505/keret-house-centrala/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Astronomers find Earth's first trojan asteroid

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/astronomers-find-earths-first-trojan-asteroid.ars

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry

http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/all-that-is-wrong-with-recruitment.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 93 comments

Google reinstates account of thomasmonopoly

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bvqdos

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

Inside the War for Tech Talent

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/27/tech-recruiters/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: How many HN members are there?

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=site:news.ycombinator.com+inurl%3A%22user%3Fid%3D%22&pbx=1&oq=site:news.ycombinator.com+inurl%3A%22user%3Fid%3D%22

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

Bring your half-baked idea to the Half-Bakery

http://www.halfbakery.com/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Email Intervention

http://www.emailintervention.com/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Do You Live In A Protected Freedom Zone?

http://www.1729.com/blog/DoYouLiveInAProtectedFreedomZone.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

High number of infosec textbooks almost 100% copied, according to attrition.org

http://www.fastcompany.com/1769244/plagiarism-professionals

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/26/apple-finishing-up-work-on-an-ultra-thin-15-notebook/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments

Peter Molyneux Blames Success on Baked Beans

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/apr11/04-15Molyneux.mspx

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Progressive Internet Explorer

https://github.com/lojjic/PIE

15 years ago

★ 2.7k HTML
64 upvotes – 31 comments

Game Theory Take On - Washington’s Rogue Elephants

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/opinion/27Barash.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Email Is The Perfect Way To Teach Writing

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/composition-101-how-a-tool-everyone-has-could-change-education/242468/#.TjAvhTidjxU.hackernews

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

San Diego: join us for Hacker News meetup #19 (Fri 7/29)

http://anyvite.com/iiusw6wcg0

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Upgrade of an old console

http://fishki.net/en/comment.php?id=92670

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Pronounceable IPv6 addresses, WPA2-PSK and hashes

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/07/pronounceable-ipv6-addresses-wpa2-psk.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

23andMe finds Parkinsons only 24% heritable

http://independentsciencenews.org/news/23andme-disproves-its-own-business-model/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments

The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/print.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Interested in a Seattle HN Meetup? Sign up here.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJNVDhwNE8waVEzMGVuWnZ4clVQcXc6MQ

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Anonymous meets real activism? #OpPayPal

http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/anonymous-meets-real-activism-oppaypal/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 25 comments

Threatening Lawsuit, HBGary Federal Intimidates Aaron Barr Out of DEFCON Panel

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/lawsuit-threat-pushes-former-hbgary-federal-ceo-out-defcon-072711

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

Language may shape human thought

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6303-language-may-shape-human-thought.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments
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