top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-07-29

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare-no-end-in-sight.html

15 years ago

1017 upvotes – 482 comments

Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-victim-speaks-again-homeless-scared-and-angry/

15 years ago

397 upvotes – 132 comments

Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3)

http://serverfault.com/q/293217

15 years ago

395 upvotes – 137 comments

The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice

http://www.foodrenegade.com/secret-ingredient-your-orange-juice/

15 years ago

338 upvotes – 188 comments

Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9aac5f80-b924-11e0-bd87-00144feabdc0.html

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 138 comments

Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/29/why-my-mom-bought-an-android-returned-it-and-got-an-iphone/

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 196 comments

Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-competitor-roomorama-we-dont-want-to-trade-security-for-volume/

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 96 comments

"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed to replace fopen()."

http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 57 comments

Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 146 comments

Vim & Python: Making yourself at home

http://justinlilly.com/vim/vim_and_python.html

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 29 comments

How to work with me - a no BS approach

http://nullisnull.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-work-with-me.html

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 125 comments

Simpson's paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 34 comments

Get $40k grant for your startup. Live in Chile for 6 months.

http://www.startupchile.org/about/apply/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple now holding more cash than USA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14340470

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 126 comments

Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/?hy=2

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)

http://www.subtraction.com/2011/07/28/unsolicited-redesigns

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 67 comments

Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2091

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents

http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/07/google-acquires-ibm-patents-in-july/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 62 comments

Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program

http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 26 comments

Emacs violates GPL since 2009

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-07/msg01155.html

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 39 comments
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