top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-28

Java 7 is now available

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jdk-7-download-432154.html

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 204 comments

Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

http://zachholman.com/posts/steve-jobs-sometimes-lies/

15 years ago

306 upvotes – 124 comments

Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

http://www.google.com/search?q=search

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 130 comments

The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents

http://blogs.forbes.com/timothylee/2011/07/28/the-supreme-court-should-invalidate-software-patents/

15 years ago

296 upvotes – 115 comments

Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/could-you-modify-it-to-stop-students-from-becoming-this-advanced/

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 234 comments

Page Speed Service

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/page-speed-service-web-performance.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 61 comments

Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110728/00525815296/that-didnt-take-long-spotify-sued-patent-infringement-just-weeks-after-entering-us-market.shtml

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 70 comments

Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/EveryLanguageFixesSomething.html?HN0

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 101 comments

On Safety: A Word From Airbnb

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/on-safety-a-word-from-airbnb/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 106 comments

Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/91344-isostick-the-usb-memory-stick-that-thinks-its-an-optical-drive

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 68 comments

New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live

http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 29 comments

Norway’s Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/europe/28norway.html?_r=1

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 61 comments

Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/feds-approve-44k-doctor-reimbursement-for-using-drchrono%E2%80%99s-ipad-app/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=22280

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby

http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/03/25/game-theory-tuesdays-hotelling%E2%80%99s-game-or-why-gas-stations-have-competitors-nearby/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 71 comments

Finding your way in vim: tags, cscope, grep and more

http://stolowski.blogspot.com/2011/07/finding-your-way-in-vim.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/27/the-pluggable-pipedream/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android

http://www.osnews.com/story/24996/Illustrated_Apple_s_Fear_of_Android

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

Symfony 2.0 is now available

http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-2-0

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

Steve Perlman unveils white paper explaining “impossible” wireless data rates

http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/28/steve-perlman-unveils-dido-white-paper-explaining-impossible-wireless-data-rates/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

KDE 4.7 released

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

Minecraft.Print()

http://minecraftprint.com/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

Beware of Asshole VCs

http://www.sethlevine.com/wp/2011/07/beware-of-asshole-vcs

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser

https://github.com/ibdknox/brepl

15 years ago

★ 77 JavaScript
92 upvotes – 9 comments

19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education

http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/07/28/19-year-old-stanford-ph-d-dropout-andrew-hsu-is-changing-education/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 59 comments

Offer HN: Free Maths Lessons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815996

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

The racial performance gap explained

http://method.ac/blog/education/on_the_racial_educational_gap.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Signs of life from GNU Hurd

https://lwn.net/Articles/452296/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 62 comments

Are Software Patents Evil? (2006)

http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 74 comments

What's the Matter with Boston VCs?

http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/whats-the-matter-with-boston/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Is Domestically Produced Ethanol Worth the Cost?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ethanol-domestic-fuel-supply-or-environmental-boondoggle

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

IQ scores in relation to web browser choice

http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

MongoHQ Acquires MongoMachine

http://blog.mongohq.com/post/8188292197/mongohq-acquires-mongomachine

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

ISP Bandwidth Caps are Really Rate Hikes

http://www.cringely.com/2011/07/bandwidth-caps-are-rate-hikes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICringely+%28I%2C+Cringely%29

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

How to write a "GPUs are Awesome" paper

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=3736

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

The End of Net Neutrality? British Telecom ordered to block access to NewzBin2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14322957

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Why do we let sexist creeps pervade the software industry?

https://plus.google.com/106119964731604142156/posts/DkFAzuwmcTW

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 162 comments

Catch the London underground with Google

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/07/catch-london-underground-with-google.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 26 comments

U.S. balance now less than Apple cash

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/07/28/u-s-balance-now-less-than-apple-cash/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

"My Customers Would Have Asked For a Faster Horse"

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 2 comments

Age-Related Memory Loss Reversed in Monkeys

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38158/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-28

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Gill Dyslexic — a $2 dyslexic font based on the work behind Dyslexie

http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Gmail Snooze with Apps Script

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Harvard study predicts electric car penetration when gas hits $4.5-$5.5/gall

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/28/harvard-study-the-electric-car-in-the-us-market/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-Bending Music Video

http://www.fastcompany.com/1769198/flash-light-party-s-mind-bending-strobe-animated-video-for-androp?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Mobile payments: great for coffee, but not much else

http://blog.thomvest.com/muchsizzlelittlesteak/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

Ubuntu One Basic renamed Ubuntu One Free and storage space increased to 5GB

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=1023

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

Porting Microsoft SQL Server to Linux

http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-to-linux/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments

The Edison of Silicon Valley

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-edison-of-silicon-valley-07272011.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments
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