top 50% 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

Burt Rutan’s Boomerang – Safety Through Asymmetry

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/07/burt-rutans-boomerang-safety-through-asymmetry

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Doc)

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZNlBave77hiZGNjanptbV84Z25yaHJmMjk&pli=1#Allowed_Intermediary_Character_30801873723976314

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 13 comments

Happy Sysadmin Day

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

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for NoSQL

http://www.unqlspec.org/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 65 comments

Backbone.js Tips : Lessons from the trenches

http://devblog.supportbee.com/2011/07/29/backbone-js-tips-lessons-from-the-trenches/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Why I love Smalltalk

http://pupeno.com/blog/why-i-love-smalltalk/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Groupon's accounting practices under SEC scrutiny

http://www.itworld.com/software/187277/groupons-accounting-practices-under-sec-scrutiny

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Experienced Users View Reddit Differently

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/experienced-users-view-reddit-differently/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Companies Spy on Their Users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Anonymous releases internal data on another FBI contractor, ManTech

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6571301-

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Charting the American Debt Crisis

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/28/us/charting-the-american-debt-crisis.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Redis 2.4 will be released tomorrow

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/antirez/~3/T3p9g6TStMc/redis-doc-fiesta-2.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_taskrabbit/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text Fields

http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-users-fill-out-forms-faster-with-unified-text-fields/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Mojofiend giving away free coffee to San Francisco residents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822341

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

"We Really Don't Know How To Compute" - Sussman keynote at Strange Loop

https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/we-really-dont-know-how-to-compute

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Compiling Clojure to Javascript, pt. 2 -- Why No Eval?

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/07/29/compiling-clojure-to-javascript-pt-2-why-no-eval/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

Heatmaps for node.js and the browser

http://substack.net/posts/7fce46/heatmaps-for-node-js-and-the-browser

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

TweetFire - new Twitter client for iPhone

http://app.net/tweetfire

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments
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